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Example sentences for "want him"

  • Somehow, Anne, I don't want him to think me frivolous.

  • He belongs to me and I want him to live and flourish.

  • Perhaps his mother doesn't want him to marry anybody," suggested Anne.

  • I want him to tell me all about how he ketched them robbers.

  • But I don't want him to," declared Joel, loudly, not moving.

  • I don't want him to be whipped," said Joel, slowly.

  • He has just as many thoughts as we have, and I want him to develop them, not take Gopher Prairie's version of them.

  • And if there's anybody that's got such cold kismets that he's afraid to tag after Jim Blausser on the Big Going Up, then we don't want him here!

  • But before we were married you said if your husband ever did anything wrong, you'd want him to tell you.

  • But you don't want him to find you crying like this, Flora.

  • I shouldn't want him to think I cared or noticed enough to keep him from coming back--some.

  • Tell him to do what I DON'T want in order to get him to do what I do want him to?

  • You see, I want him to do all that I wanted to do--and couldn't.

  • I want him to meet the right sort of people.

  • I want him to have a proper man to look after things--I want him to take on Garth again," said Sir James.

  • I want him to go away--to Stone Court, for example.

  • Well, goodness knows, I don't want him," said the girl.

  • If Coonrod 'll mind his own business, and do what I want him to, he'll have yoke enough to bear.

  • But I want him to get the business training, and then if he wants to go into something else he knows what the world is, anyway.

  • I've got a place near Third Avenue, on a nice cross street, and I want him to take us there.

  • I got a particular reason why I want him to believe it wasn't his ideas I objected to--them ideas of his about the government carryin' everything on and givin' work.

  • We don't want him to employ anybody else.

  • But I don't want him side-tracked all his life in a little Indiana town.

  • He hears so quickly," she explained; "I don't want him to know yet.

  • If it is possible, I want him to secure Goldsboro', with the railroad back to Morehead City and Wilmington.

  • Then I want him to destroy the road toward Burkesville as far as he can; then push on to the Southside road, west of Burkesville, and destroy it effectually.

  • If you got the money, I no want him; but if you no got him, I want it like the devil!

  • Smith can reach his destined point, but this I can hardly expect; yet I want him to reach by the Yazoo a position near Grenada, thence to operate against Forrest, after which to march across to Decatur, Alabama.

  • There he is; only, don't keep him long, because I want him.

  • If she doesn't, it means she doesn't want him told, and I should be sneaking.

  • I want him back; I hate life--I hate the world.

  • I can't understand any man wanting to live with a woman who doesn't want him.

  • You have been so good to us, so delicately and truly good, that I want him to be better in your eyes than in anybody's.

  • It so rarely happened that anybody seemed to want him, it was such an exceptional case when his powers were in any request, that his misty mind could not make out how it happened.

  • Mr Merdle didn't want him, and was put out of countenance when the great creature looked at him; but inappeasable Society would have him--and had got him.

  • I'm doing it because I like Dick and I want him to succeed.

  • I DO like him, and I don't want him to ever be unhappy.

  • I tell all the churches to drive all such men out, and when he comes I want him to state just what he thinks.

  • I want him to tell whether he believes the Bible was inspired in any other way than Shakespeare was inspired.

  • I want him to answer; and when he answers he will say he does not believe the Bible is inspired.

  • I want him to pick out something as beautiful and tender as Burns' poem to Mary in Heaven.

  • I want him to tell the people of Chicago whether he believes the Bible is inspired in any sense except that in which Shakespeare was inspired.

  • I want him to know me exactly as I am, and then--" Kitty made a passionate gesture.

  • I didn't want him to wake," she continued.

  • He won't be gone long, I should think, and we don't want him bursting in on us before I've got that letter safe back into his desk.

  • It's all play to him, and I want him to work.

  • I want him to do his share to change it--instead of idling his life away.

  • He's a friend of mine, and I don't want him arrested.

  • Mr. Morris believes in me,--I want him to continue to believe in me.

  • Call on him personally and tell you want him to come, and why--and that I want him, too.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "want him" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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