Example sentences of "that [pron] want [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've told my promoter Barry Hearn that I want it to come off next September and I want it to be outdoors . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children . |
| 6 | Not that I want you to agree with your colleague , but check perhaps , particularly for a bearing yourself . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | ‘ So much so that I want you to do it again . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Not if you 're gon na do that I want you covered up before you sit on my knee . |
| 13 | So you 're all agreed that I want you to pack up at half past ten ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I was half asleep against his shoulder and then … suddenly I realized that I wanted him to kiss me . |
| 16 | ‘ Not that I wanted them to go , ’ she said . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I told you in my letter last week that I wanted you to arrange for me to meet him . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | It seems that the author has deliberately left things vague by choosing the intransitive verb construction : that she wants us to have the delicately ironic impression of a deferential , high-class shop in which doors , as it were , open and shut almost of their own accord . |
| 21 | B H did , she used to say school run Tuesday evening , do n't make any fun , she used to block it out , the time that she wanted me to see me . |
| 22 | Encouraging me to follow in this way perhaps , but moving too fast for me to believe that she wanted me to do that , she entered a revolving door of dark polished wood , mahogany and glass , and started to go round and round , looking out at me as she turned . |
| 23 | A woman accused of hiring a hitman to murder her former boyfriend has denied that she wanted him killed . |
| 24 | Those plans hit the rocks amid reports that Jacko was horrified when Madonna told a gay magazine that she wanted him to hang out with a gay dance troupe and become more hip . |
| 25 | Was n't at all sure that she wanted him to have learned anything about her that went to add up to what made her tick . |
| 26 | Not that she wanted him to contact her — perish the thought ! |
| 27 | Perhaps it was because she liked Brown Owl so much that she wanted her to marry someone rather special and wonderful . |
| 28 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 29 | The phrasing got so slow and emphatic that you knew that she wanted you to listen to and weigh up every single word ; but you could n't tell if each word was freighted with anger , or bitterness , or joy ; it just came out with great , quiet force , and you had to work out its tone for yourself . |
| 30 | Well , I do n't imagine that you want me to answer all those questions immediately , otherwise nobody else , I think , would get a look in . |