Example sentences of "they want [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want to talk about the AOL , of course . |
| 2 | They want to vote for the party which makes them better off . |
| 3 | The mixture will leave young cricket-lovers wondering whether they want to ascend to the spotlight or make do safely with their humdrum jobs . |
| 4 | Tory vice-chairman Andrew Mitchell has written to all candidates asking if they want to remain on the list and requesting a new CV . |
| 5 | The majority of potential users of desktop publishing systems have a definite idea of what they want to do with the system ; publish a newsletter , produce catalogues , spruce up company reports , etc . |
| 6 | So the time for meals should be determined by when people get up , when they go to bed and other things that they want to do during the day . ’ |
| 7 | The erm he said soon they want to do for the room in the porch there . |
| 8 | Have they got any ideas about what they want to do in the future ? |
| 9 | well no , but not on , to town , but there might be somewhere they want to go on the way |
| 10 | Many of those attending the doctor 's surgery with physical symptoms , such as headache or diarrhoea , actually have serious emotional , sexual or family problems that they want to discuss with the doctor , but find it difficult to start on such sensitive topics . |
| 11 | GAMBIAN police have named a man they want to question about the murder of a British conservation worker who was killed in a game reserve in December . |
| 12 | They want to get through the canal in the one day . |
| 13 | He says they want to get into the market and this is the only way and it will benefit the customer . |
| 14 | Getting the couple to write down targets , stating what they want to change in the marriage and negotiating these targets , can be an effective way of improving the situation Likewise , the therapeutic techniques for overcoming sexual problems often involve a graded series of targets towards improving performance and technique one stage at a time . |
| 15 | They want to build on the land . ’ |
| 16 | Now they want to build on the site , but the local council say it should be restored as part of the countryside . |
| 17 | This course , which is the only one of its type in Northern Ireland , is designed to cater for students who wish to study accounting and other related subjects before deciding whether they want to embark on the study of professional accountancy , or who wish to acquire sufficient knowledge of accounting before taking up employment . |
| 18 | Some 300 companies have moved their headquarters from Osaka to Tokyo each year because they want to plug into the capital 's networks . |
| 19 | They wanted to push in the incentive scheme throughout the shop and they were busily engaged in doing that , and were rather blinded you know , to the claims that were coming through . |
| 20 | But some companies made it clear yesterday that if possible they wanted to remain in the City . |
| 21 | But first they wanted to see to the drainage at one particularly bad spot , where a stream was running down the path . |
| 22 | Most of the group members were quite young , Right-On , middle-class , intellectual , and had their own particular obsession which they wanted to see in the paper . |
| 23 | However , he always managed to get the team to wherever they wanted to go despite the problem . |
| 24 | And if they wanted to go against the wind , they had men , and they had oars . |
| 25 | Yet to a very large extent German efforts were contradictory : Völkisch opinion wished Germany to remain as it was and yet somehow to return to the past ; they wanted to return to the past yet at the same time wished for the power to behave as they pleased . |
| 26 | And they had been asked if they wanted to stay in the fort , since more soldiers had now been put into it , but they thought , since they could n't fight , they would rather go and hide with their people . |
| 27 | If therapy was needed for the child , they wanted to share in the offering of help and particularly valued taking part with the workers in life-story work . |
| 28 | Disabled people would have to buy a transmitter , which costs £19.95 , if they wanted to benefit from the scheme . |
| 29 | They wanted to get on the production line and turn out more breakfasts . |
| 30 | But after a few weeks my girlfriend 's dad got a phone call from the old couple we 'd painted the house for , they wanted to get in the coal shed and could n't because I 'd painted over the lock . |