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

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1 That I want to save you .
2 Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’
3 ‘ As long as you remember that I want to see you as little as possible .
4 Will you tell them that I want to take you ? "
5 There are of course some positive signs around but also a danger that I want to alert you to : a growth in what I will call ‘ designer caring ’ .
6 ‘ There 's something very practical that I want to ask you , ’ he said gently .
7 Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’
8 It 's just that I want to get it typed I s'pose .
9 Knowing you , Jesus , brings so much joy and hope into my life that I want to share you with everyone I meet ,
10 Although I 've talked about some of them before there is such a feeling in fashion for double jacquard that I want to suggest them to you again .
11 It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’
12 I 'm sorry I was so tiresomely upset just now , it 's just that I want to protect you . ’
13 Then , in the same tone , in fact I decided that I want to marry you .
14 ‘ I think I said , in a lamentably floundering fashion , that I want to marry you . ’
15 ‘ There 's something that I want to show you .
16 So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning .
17 I assured her that I would definitely not change my mind and that I was sure that I wanted to do it .
18 I just … . it 's just that I wanted to tell her how sorry I am about … about what happened to your father and brother but , not knowing her , I did n't want to say it in a way that might upset her .
19 I considered simply passing it forward , but some idiot would probably open it and read it out to the whole class , or else it would get intercepted by Mrs Burton who was the last person that I wanted to read it .
20 So that 's why I came home , not that I wanted to come you know , to give it up .
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