Example sentences of "[pron] wants [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone wants to achieve that . |
| 2 | No , nobody wants to do that . |
| 3 | Nobody wants to see that flow become a trickle . |
| 4 | nobody wants to trade that way , I do n't |
| 5 | She wants to change that . |
| 6 | Erm I think they , I think they do that during the day and then in the evening it 's on for anybody else who wants to see that take-off on cheeses . |
| 7 | Any theorist who wants to claim that , for example , the English L-present and L-future coincide with the M-present and M-future , will find catalogues of insuperable odds in Huddleston , 1969 ; Lakoff , 1970 ; Lyons , 1977a : 809ff ; and the references they cite . |
| 8 | Who wants to do that travelling every day anyway ? |
| 9 | Today , Anna 's mother was at the Commons , to meet the MP who wants to change that law . |
| 10 | Not , we wan na increase sales because everybody wants to do that , but if we 've got ta increase sales , by what ? |
| 11 | Yes , Tuesdays , the accounts manager , I think if everybody wants to get that reaction , if that 's the regular reaction that they get , you know , people dumping on them all the time , it is water off a duck 's back , you take it more , you take it more on board if it is an occasional thing , . |
| 12 | it wants washing that pan anyway |
| 13 | Despite his hot streak of goals , Quinn has not yet been on the winning side for the Sky Blues and now he wants to put that unwanted record in the dustbin . |
| 14 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
| 15 | And here there 's potentially big trouble , because the way he wants to do that is by taxing the Copts more . ’ |
| 16 | I think if you 've got somebody who 's got a er a solicitor or an accountant then you need to establish why he wants to talk to them and also er if he , if he 's adamant that he wants to do that , find out who he is and ask if you can speak to him as well , or you can explain erm you know what the , what , what you 're doing with the client . |
| 17 | He wants to use that chain . |
| 18 | Locke of course wants to argue a strong case to the contrary , he wants to argue that membership of a civil society is voluntary . |
| 19 | I think it 's a good time to spend in the garden to be honest , I mean you ca n't , you ca n't , it 's not really long enough to try and do it at weekends , not if he wants to move that garage back , it 'll probably take the best part of the week to sort that out |
| 20 | Mr Allen has said he wants to see that percentage double by the mid-1990s . |
| 21 | If he pays in first and then has to make an interim payment and he wants to make that payment out of the money in court , he must ask specifically for leave to do so and also to amend his notice of payment in so as to refer to the fact that some of the money has been paid out . |
| 22 | He 's got , he wants to know that dialect thing does n't he ? |
| 23 | Yeah , he wants to buy that bit of land , he said I do n't care if I have to mortgage myself up to the hills he said ! |