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I saw the sentence "I want you coming home soon" yesterday in the Oxford dictionary and it's quite a strange structure to me (I was taught "want somebody to do something) ,so would you please explain this structure to me ?
"I want you to come home soon" is clearer, but you could speak in terms of the person's act of coming home at, perhaps, a certain time, say, "At five o'clock, I want you coming home, or 'on your way.'
These structures are not incorrect as such, but now, what does "coming home" mean here, being 'on the way,' or 'walking through the door,' as it were?
want somebody doing something? 
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