Example sentences of "want [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't want to miss them growing up . ’
2 In any case , the Shetland spring would soon be upon us — and I would n't want to miss it .
3 You do n't want to miss it , ’ sniffs Molly , dabbing at her cheeks with a scrap of peach-coloured lace …
4 Karen did not want to miss it , any more .
5 ‘ You do n't want to miss it . ’
6 Did n't want to miss it .
7 Gave a wondering smile which made Léonie want to hit her .
8 ‘ But why should she want to hit you ? ’
9 So I did n't want to burden her by being awkward about it , make her feel bad about it , equally I have n't really thanked her .
10 ‘ I did n't want to burden you with this but you 'd soon have wondered why Mackie did n't come . ’
11 But Eve Pearce is magnificently anguished and smothering as Henny ( this is the kind of mother whose ‘ I do n't want to burden you with my problems ’ sounds as convincing as ‘ I am not a crook ’ did when it come from the lips of Richard Nixon ) , and Debora Weston flutters and fences vivaciously as the girlish killer and literary know-all .
12 " I do n't want to burden you with my problems . "
13 But there — I do n't want to burden you with my troubles . ’
14 As long as they do n't want to borrow them .
15 Do you want to borrow it ? ’
16 Do you want to borrow it ?
17 if we if we get it off the ground at all it may be we 'd want to carry it over till the Autumn and start the new season with it .
18 Well I 'm cutting David 's hair tonight , I do n't want want you late to bed .
19 She knew me as Matt and I did n't want to alert you to who I was until I 'd found out what was going on .
20 She did n't want to forgive him .
21 ( The truth is I do n't want to forgive her , because it will free her from the grappling irons I have on her .
22 Also , I do n't want to forgive her because it will suggest that I have settled for something . )
23 Er , it might not be applicable to talents or erm hand spans or things like that but I certainly would want to include it , it might be very important in , in my subject .
24 ‘ Of course we do n't want to lose him .
25 ‘ We do n't want to lose him .
26 The film is about a getaway driver who decides to cast aside his criminal life , seeking refuge in the Suffolk countryside , where he falls in love , marries and starts a family , but his former associates do not want to lose him .
27 It was the most irrevocable step you took in your life ; but she did n't want to lose him .
28 I did n't want to lose him . ’
29 Carmichael would n't want to lose him . ’
30 oh , we do n't want to lose him before explore it , of course do explore it with him , that 's what he said you 'll have to ask Mr about it
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