Example sentences of "[conj] i want [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no such skill , but I was learning , and it was an infinite satisfaction to keep Joanna moving , and going where I wanted her to go , with the sweep . |
| 2 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |
| 3 | colour this is not going to go where I want it to go . |
| 4 | I assure the House that , in all the speeches that I have made at police meetings and conferences this year , I have repeatedly stressed to the police that I want them to give this type of crime high priority . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've told my promoter Barry Hearn that I want it to come off next September and I want it to be outdoors . |
| 6 | Now what 's the word that I want it begins with a C , I 'll remember it tomorrow if you ever need to talk about it tomorrow . |
| 7 | And he said well just get yourself home and tell your father that I want it paid for this time because I only replaced that glass last week , which he had |
| 8 | Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children . |
| 9 | Not that I want you to agree with your colleague , but check perhaps , particularly for a bearing yourself . |
| 10 | If you think of a famous building that you associate with London okay we are doing life in the city , we all live in London okay , think in your mind of a famous building for example Saint Paul 's , what I want you to do , and we 'll go round the class , is that I want you to describe yourself |
| 11 | ‘ So much so that I want you to do it again . ’ |
| 12 | So I make no apologies for beginning this book in the way that a conjurer might , by giving you an apparently free choice from the pack while in fact forcing on you the particular card that I want you to take . |
| 13 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
| 14 | Erm , the next bit of , that I want you to find which is the address and telephone section , that also , I 'd like you to put at the front of the active binder . |
| 15 | Not if you 're gon na do that I want you covered up before you sit on my knee . |
| 16 | So you 're all agreed that I want you to pack up at half past ten ? |
| 17 | She looked so pornographic in her gimmicks that I wanted her to take them off again , or better , much better , push bits of them aside . |
| 18 | I was half asleep against his shoulder and then … suddenly I realized that I wanted him to kiss me . |
| 19 | ‘ Not that I wanted them to go , ’ she said . |
| 20 | ‘ If I said to you , ’ replies Anya wearily , ‘ that I wanted you to stop what you were doing , stop everything , and drive miles and miles , into the back of beyond , just to be with me , you 'd have told me to piss off . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I told you in my letter last week that I wanted you to arrange for me to meet him . |
| 22 | ‘ I think I said to you earlier — I did , did n't I — sometimes I forget what I 've said — that I wanted you to look after her . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ So I want you to go away . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Watson , you know the house , so I want you to go forward and look through the windows . |
| 25 | Team 1 is concentrating on the basement and ground floor , so I want you to go up to the 4th level as team 2 will be putting out the flames on floors 2 + 3 . |
| 26 | ‘ Obviously we have to move fast , so I want you to accompany me to a dinner that the developers are giving tonight . |
| 27 | I want to know , and I want her to talk to me . |
| 28 | ‘ And I want her left out of it . ’ |
| 29 | And I want her to know that she is welcome in my house for as long as she wishes . ’ |
| 30 | He normally works for me at St Andrews and I want him to do it because he 'll be retiring after this year . |