Example sentences of "want them to " in BNC.
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| 1 | People say : ‘ Students are by definition idealistic and impatient — would Mugabe really want them to be any different ? |
| 2 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
| 3 | ‘ Would n't want them to be teaching us . |
| 4 | It 's an encouraging if surprising fact that children and young people are much less likely to smoke when parents tell them that they do n't want them to . |
| 5 | I am really glad of it ; I do n't think I would want them to be there , just in case I lost . |
| 6 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
| 7 | We do not want them to be upset , so we keep them away from funerals , or from saying goodbye , face to face , to their relatives and friends . |
| 8 | ‘ Because when we do join up on the Monday , I do n't want them to be going into the game cold . |
| 9 | If you just stand around waiting for the enemy to come to you then of course your ladz will get bored , and naturally they 'll start to get a bit fractious , then inevitably they 'll end up failing an Animosity test probably just when you do n't want them to . |
| 10 | President-elect Clinton , in the second day of his barnstorming session on the economy in Little Rock , Arkansas said of the IBM cut-backs ‘ That kind of investment is the exact thing we do n't want them to be cutting . ’ |
| 11 | How long do you want them to be on H R T for ? |
| 12 | We do n't want them to be with us . |
| 13 | We did n't tell them about the Germans because we did n't want them to be more worried than they were already . |
| 14 | Do you want them to ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But every now and then , his eyes slid over to look at me , almost as if he did n't want them to , but could n't help it . |
| 16 | In a climate of teacher expertise , teachers frequently pre-empt pupils ' decisions because they do not want them to ‘ get into a mess ’ . |
| 17 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 18 | It may however be relevant where the vendor is a partnership in which case each partner will be asked to provide the warranties and , in such circumstance , the purchaser will want them to be given on a joint and several basis . |
| 19 | Do we want them to be involved ? |
| 20 | Since I 've recently had my car radio stolen I 'm quite in favour of them not being sold at the car boot sales perhaps somebody would like to returns it to me but erm , the , you know , I 'm er you know they do need some restr , some legislation but I would n't want them to be legislated out of existence . |
| 21 | Admittedly they did not taste like a British dumpling , but Fabia did not want them to . |
| 22 | ‘ We ca n't see Charlton Athletic , Chester City or Maidstone United being refused entry , nor would we want them to be , ’ he says . |
| 23 | And then she goes mad she says I do n't want them to and I said look Nance if they did n't want to do it they and I said do n't forget what you 've done for them . |
| 24 | Bud did n't want them to be done anyway . |
| 25 | No I do n't want them to be there . |
| 26 | One does n't want them to sort of follow it blindly , of course , one wants them to discuss it carefully , very carefully , but it has to sort of fit into the ongoing life of the institution and not be a kind of little game that someone is playing on their own somewhere because they happen to be linked with the university or doing a degree or something . |
| 27 | Would you want them to be able to express their emotions more intensely and precisely , able to show how they feel ? |
| 28 | But we want them to be accessible , not stuffy . ’ |
| 29 | They go now with a much greater knowledge of their customers to manufacturers and say : ‘ We want our products to be made like this for us and we want them to be our products . ’ |
| 30 | She wanted him to be someone she could love and idealised the future in her head , but then found herself thinking about that most heartwrenching of adolescent discoveries ; people rarely are what you want them to be and betray you without malice , unaware of the pain they cause . |