Example sentences of "want [pron] [noun] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say they now want their employers to take immediate action . |
| 2 | The people who can really lay a claim on hipness as the first to promote the workwear cause , though , are the Authentic Americana Nuts who want their lives to resemble Happy Days ; the readers of the small ads in a magazine like the biker title Back Street Heroes ; and Scottish rig workers , who have been targeted by foreign workwear companies as the natural customers all along . |
| 3 | Such is the strength of social pressure that many such couples want their children to have married parents . |
| 4 | ‘ Half of those who participate in these activities ’ , remarked one frustrated local LNU branch in a letter to Gilbert Murray in 1936 , ‘ … want our Government to do one thing and the other half the exactly contrary thing … . ’ |
| 5 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |