Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "want you"

  • I want you to be my assistant, and I will guarantee that your burns and stains shall not be dangerous.

  • That 's precisely what I want you to say.

  • There are some people I know and whom I want you to know.

  • I want you to take care of those ladies," his friend went on.

  • I want you to forget about that--this morning, and not think I am a galoot and a mucker.

  • We want you in this thing, and we want you bad.

  • We want you to adopt our candidate for Railroad Commissioner for the third district.

  • I don't want you to," Mrs. Brandeis had replied, almost fiercely.

  • I don't want you to know a bill of lading from a sales slip when you see it.

  • I don't want you to know about buying and selling.

  • I want you now to go with me to Stoniton.

  • Nay, nay, I don't want you to wear a Methodist cap like Dinah's.

  • We want you to tell us the places you know on the East Coast where there are cliffs, and where several sets of steps run down to the beach.

  • I reckon you're a bit of a sportsman,' I said, 'and I want you to do me a service.

  • Now I'll tell you what I want you to do,' I said.

  • I want you to assure Mr Hannay that he will suffer no further inconvenience.

  • First, I want you to write a letter to your uncle.

  • I'd take the car--want you to see how swell she runs since I put in a new piston.

  • This is the christening of my house, and I want you to help me have a bad influence on it, so that it will be a giddy house.

  • I want you to see the country round here," Kennicott announced at breakfast.

  • I want you -- I want you to let me say I love you again and again!

  • Beyond all things, I want you as my wife.

  • I want you for my wife -- so wildly that no other feeling can abide in me; but I should not have spoken out had I not been led to hope.

  • I don't want you to make-up your mind at once, if you'd rather not.

  • But I want you to have that money, see, dearie?

  • III "General Macias, I want you to meet my future wife," Luis Cervantes said with great emphasis as he led a beautiful girl into the dining room.

  • I want you to be convinced that I am truly one of your coreligionists.

  • I DO want you to see this," said Mrs. Leivers.

  • I want you to come and fetch me back from here.

  • As he was changing his coat, he heard a voice behind him say: "Paul, Paul, I want you.

  • But I want you to be happy," she said pathetically.

  • I want you to treat me nicely and respectfully.

  • I am poor, but I don't want you to talk to me as you are doing.

  • I don't want you to put any one on his guard.

  • I don't want you to tell at the store that you room with a bootblack.

  • I say, Rodney," and Jasper cleared his throat, "I want you to do me a favor.

  • Why of course I don't want you to have bad luck.

  • She'll let anybody come that I want, and I want you.

  • He began after this fashion: "Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your attention for a minute or two.

  • Well, if I don't want you in the daytime, I'll let you sleep.

  • Dear one, I want you to do something for me," he said.

  • I want you to talk to Mrs. Strickland," she said.

  • I'm not going to ask you to change your mind, but I want you to listen to me for a minute.

  • No, blast you; I want you to hold your tongue.

  • You don't want me as I want you--you're always wanting something else.

  • What I want you to tell me is, can one be in love with two people at once, or can't one?

  • It was all about false pride; I want you to read it, mother.

  • I want you to do something for me very much indeed.

  • In a word, Katy, I want you to ask him for me.

  • I want you to take it to the pawnbroker's.

  • I don't want you to pay me in money, but you may pay me in another way, if you please.

  • I want you to walk a little way with me this evening.

  • No, I want you to accompany me as far as the door.

  • I don't want you should be out anything on my account, old man.

  • But I want you to SAY so; say so always and always.

  • I don't WANT you to go," she whispered in her mother's ear, sobbing.

  • Now, I want you should go right in and speak to her just as soon as she comes home, and say you've come into money and you want her to marry you.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "want you" 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:
    for the former things are passed; found under; hardly need; large family; made partakers; other citizens; quite obvious; said once; seeing this; slept till; stepping forward; three slices; usually single; want any; want anything; want every; want her; want him; want none; want nothing; want the; want them; want you; wanted them; wanton destruction; while warm