Example sentences of "want [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jock then tried to hit Denis , who was still swinging at Michael , who did n't want to hit his big brother , and stumbled back into Sean , who jumped to one side and collided with Pat Kelly , knocking his next drink out of his hand ! |
| 2 | Was that because Theo did n't want to risk his precious name in the Paris art world ? |
| 3 | Why on earth would Parkin want to kill his own mistress ? |
| 4 | I acknowledge that Faber 's is a significant score for a company with a part-time editor-in-chief and a chief executive who wants to split his own job , but at Random House we work harder ( or at least differently ) and it does produce results . |
| 5 | Leeds chairman Leslie Silver Wwednesday defended the controversial decision to sell Batty and said : ‘ No manager wants to sell his best players but Howard Wilkinson is practical enough to realise that we ca n't just buy other people 's best players — it works the other way round sometimes . |
| 6 | ‘ He wants to play his own part in it as low-key as possible and that 's quite correct . ’ |
| 7 | He wants to express his deep sympathy to the Humphreys family . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's not to say you wo n't get waylaid by the odd passenger who wants to discuss his medical history ! ’ |
| 9 | He wants to put his British flag there . |
| 10 | Danson wants to quit his key role as bar owner Sam Malone , and TV bosses say Cheers ca n't go on without him . |
| 11 | Mr Salmond added : ‘ We have spent more than two months at Labour 's behest going through a process of consultation with the STUC only to be told at the end of it that Labour want to junk his key proposal before we get to a meeting . ’ |
| 12 | It 's shaping up to be an exciting climax to the group and I know Billy Bingham wants to end his managerial career on a high note . ’ |
| 13 | But Bingham wants to end his managerial career on a high note and is determined to get something out of each of the last three games . |
| 14 | He has formed a close relationship with a woman during his six months in Bosnia and now wants to end his 19-year marriage , the Sun newspaper reported today . |
| 15 | Mr Hazell said : ‘ My client wants to offer his heartfelt apologies to Mr Whitehead . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You know just how stubborn the Colonel can be when he wants to get his own way . ’ |
| 17 | At seventeen , he announces that he wants to spend his whole life in a ruined castle by the sea . |
| 18 | In other words , they 're taking a lot of the task that used to be given to manufacturers away from them and so manufacturers today are not by and large so concerned with manufacturing brands which are their own and will sit on retailers ' shelves as with providing a product for a retailer who wants to construct his own brand . |
| 19 | He 's continually er , persecuting them , and there 's many , many indications that he uses er , poisoned gas , or chemical weapons , and er lays waste their whole villages , and he 's seeking to do this because he wants to dominate his own country , and not allow any minorities a chance to look after themselves , and the same applies of course to the Kurds in the north , whom we have a direct responsibility , the international community , to protect . |
| 20 | Now he wants to produce his own film using historic planes set in historic places like Oxford . |
| 21 | She did n't turn , not wanting to see his obvious disappointment on top of everything else . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't think he would want to discuss his private financial arrangements with a newspaper , ’ a Stormont spokesman said . |
| 23 | He also said that he would want to do his own stunt work in an escape sequence . |
| 24 | It is likely that the church planter will soon want to leave his secular employment to devote himself fully to the work . |
| 25 | But he did also want to put his all into this new play with Maggie Smith that seemed to offer so much . |
| 26 | He was n't interested in other benefits and he did n't want to insure his own life . |
| 27 | The Daily Post asked Mr Patten to comment on parents ' and teachers ' misgivings on examination league tables but , according to the department , he did not want to pre-empt his prepared formal announcement . |
| 28 | On the other hand he does not want to jeopardise his shadowy courtship of Indonesia 's 160m Muslims . |
| 29 | Wanted to look his elegant best for the bitch , his nominal company chief , Leonora Buckmaster . |
| 30 | Dana had wanted to take his old bike with him on the ship back to the States . |