Example sentences of "[pers pn] want be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing I want is for the case to be closed . |
| 2 | Do n't you know that all I want is for you to be happy ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ All I want is for him to come here , take Jennifer in his arms and face me . |
| 4 | ‘ All I want is for you to be happy , Peachcake . |
| 5 | ‘ All I want is for him to be happy and secure , ’ Vitor assured her , ‘ which he is with you . |
| 6 | ‘ What I want is for us to talk long and hard , and now , ’ she declared , and , swivelling on her heel , she marched back into the house . |
| 7 | The last thing I want is for them to be used as pawns in political games of chess to suit the personal ambitions of politicians . |
| 8 | ‘ All I want is for Scotland to keep winning . |
| 9 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 10 | And you kept trying all those complicated ways of pleasing me , but all I wanted was for you just to want me . ’ |
| 11 | Now all I wanted was for James to ask me out and I would 've when out with him you know . |
| 12 | Essentially , what she wants is for Berowne to discover what is serious in life , and to stop fooling all the time . |
| 13 | All you want is for things |
| 14 | I would n't put it into a company where the profit record was likely to be poor , because the last thing you want is for the share price to be lower than the option exercise price ’ . |
| 15 | And also I think , which is very strong and I think it does come out in , in the Chinese Communist Party , is the lust of power which can be even more dangerous when you convince yourself I 'll do all you lot good but I can make you all members of the Communist Party , whether you want to be or not does n't really matter , you know , it 's gon na be for the good of the country so you fall in with this trap of assuming that you want is for their good so it 's sort of a , a dangerous thing . |
| 16 | What you want is for me to stroke your ego by telling you that he does n't compare to you . ’ |
| 17 | The last thing she wanted was for Tom to take her under his wing , to regard her in some sense as his find and his property , but that was what was happening . |
| 18 | All she wanted was for him to leave and take his tantalising , lying promises away with him . |
| 19 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |
| 20 | Frankly , the last thing she wanted was for him to come too close . |
| 21 | In that instant all she wanted was for him to take her in his arms again ; to know the sweet pressure of his mouth on hers and to feel once more the way her body had come alive beneath his hands . |
| 22 | The last thing she wanted was for him to know just how badly his words had affected her . |
| 23 | Deal or no mysterious deal , now that it had been established that he had not tracked her down all she wanted was for him to go . |
| 24 | Now all she wanted was for him to go , so she could sit down and think it over . |
| 25 | All we want is for things to go back to normal . ’ |
| 26 | Now that we do live much longer with better health care generally , what we want is for women to be able to live that last third of their lives in health and being able to enjoy themselves and contribute to the community , not feeling that they 're crippled by pain . |
| 27 | When it comes to saving lives or building bridges , the last thing we want is for uninformed and inexperienced students to form their own ideas . |
| 28 | Otherwise all we want is for her to have fun , and to enjoy happiness and health . ’ |
| 29 | The last thing we want is for someone to pop up unmarked and score a goal . |
| 30 | This father insisted that all they wanted was for their children to receive a schooling based on English traditions and values . |