Example sentences of "[vb infin] that he want " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know that he wanted it . |
| 2 | Maybe she would think that he wanted them . |
| 3 | She had become so attuned to the seisms of his feelings she could see that he wanted to hit her . |
| 4 | The local dialect was strong ; Garvey had difficulty in making a passer-by understand that he wanted to speak to a parish councillor or the Bishop . |
| 5 | He does n't mean that he wants to become mature or to quell the beast within or anything else comfortable to the understanding . |
| 6 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 7 | Only when he was at last on his way , did he realise that he wanted a woman . |
| 8 | ‘ It would seem that he wanted to conceal his past , ’ he said , as if grudging her that information . |
| 9 | To this latter suggestion , the homosexual can simply reply that he wants his relationship to be a marriage and nothing short of this , and can see no reason to justify the denial of his request . |
| 10 | He did not pretend that he wanted Ramsey to go to Durham . |
| 11 | Mr Clinton may say that he wants to concentrate on domestic policy until he is blue in the face ; the truth of the matter is that in a federal system such single-mindedness will not get him far , because most domestic policy is reserved to state and local governments . |
| 12 | Now , if you 're going to er er er er want everything and then at the same time , want to reduce the budget , then I think you 're like the man who wanted a cake an and you 'll find that he wanted to eat it , so I think you 've got to come to terms and be realistic . |