Example sentences of "he want [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merymose 's story had made him want to lose himself . |
| 2 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
| 3 | Anxiety makes him want to pee . |
| 4 | The feel of her body close to his in the carriage made him want to hold her , and he was tempted to cover her attractive though work-worn hand with his . |
| 5 | Her scarlet and green plaid outfit made him want to avert his eyes . |
| 6 | This , surely , would inflame Harry and make him want to make love to her . |
| 7 | Even thinking about their blotched yellow and black skins and their squidgy , floury middles made him want to throw up . |
| 8 | He felt inspected , plumbed , and like a moth in front of some anti-lighthouse , casting a shadow-beam , making him want to pull back , fly away from the intensity of those black , searching eyes . |
| 9 | Naught 's happened as 'ud make him want to help any white folk . ’ |
| 10 | A terrible , furious , impotent anger filled him , making him want to strike out , to shout and scream . |
| 11 | And again there was that sickly sweet stench of cooked flesh which clogged his nostrils and made him want to vomit . |
| 12 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 13 | What he saw there , lying on top of them , made him want to cry out . |
| 14 | What had Julius seen in the nineteen-year-old girl she had been five years ago that had made him want to grab her and marry her , without even really knowing her ? |
| 15 | The powerful bike between his thighs , the beautiful morning and the prospect of a full week 's work ahead , all made him want to burst with joy . |
| 16 | But she did not wake and for a moment Henry was flooded by helpless rage , a feeling that made him want to run to the bedside table , snatch up Elinor 's nail scissors and twist them into her neck , this way and that , gouging out blood and veins . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's done more , seen more , to make him want to toss it all in than almost anybody his age . |
| 18 | and I , they informed him want scrumping was |
| 19 | He admits , however , to being torn over the interest rate argument ; part of him wants to see rates held to stabilise the economy , but he also wants to see quick cuts to boost business . |
| 20 | Part of him wants to get back to the security of home but he knows that after a few weeks there he might long for the contacts , communication and craziness of the multi-media scheme . |
| 21 | She sensed him wanting to release a far greater fury than he dared . |
| 22 | And obviously the novelist 's apocalypse is by no means identical with his received Christian one ; hence , in part , the divergence of his art from the things his notebooks show him wanting to say . |
| 23 | You could see him wanting to talk about the controversy over the redevelopment of Wimbledon town centre ( Greycoat versus Speyhawk , or Caring Architects versus Greedy planners ) . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , Gail had n't realised that it was only because Mr Elder had only been in Hospital for so long , that he was overjoyed to see her and him wanting to kiss her was completely innocent . |
| 25 | It had had nothing to do with the past and everything to do with him wanting to oust her from her home . |
| 26 | Says another curator , ‘ Rusty may not have the vision to say , ‘ We need a Guido Reni at the National Gallery ’ he 's not the sort of person who could walk through the baroque galleries and realise they even need one , though if a curator went to him wanting to buy one , I think Rusty would certainly be supportive of the move , whereas Carter would basically have turned up his nose and said ‘ no ’ ’ . |
| 27 | But Murphy knows he can run a successful business — PRCS has been voted consultancy of the year by its peers — and the odds must be on him wanting to play on a bigger stage once he is free to do so . |
| 28 | It 's him wanted to know . |
| 29 | Part of him wanted to take lessons from people of more decided character . |
| 30 | No surprise that every single person who met him wanted to turn that meeting into an incident , an anecdote , an event . |