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 . |