Example sentences of "they want " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want attractive girls . |
| 2 | Because that 's what they want . |
| 3 | Remember , though , that badgering agents is quite useless ; if they want to come they will come , but telephoning them and overselling yourself can be just as useless as not letting them know that you 're alive and working . |
| 4 | Always remember that they have asked to see you and that is what they want to do . |
| 5 | The prosaic explanation for the Government 's inaction is an insult to tourism : manufacturers have told Government that they want an uninterrupted flow of production between the August bank holiday and Christmas . |
| 6 | She had soon learned that almost everybody has something they want to hide , and something they 're eager to share . |
| 7 | Local independents and independents from other regions outline what they want from broadcasters . |
| 8 | Local and national broadcasters outline what they want from independent producers . |
| 9 | They focus not on areas of need but on areas where they want to be seen to be giving , and that 's usually where the spotlight happens for the moment to be falling . |
| 10 | They become quite unconscious of what they are doing for a few seconds , and yet insist that they want to carry on and learn to fly . |
| 11 | Do , above all , make time to talk to your son or daughter — particularly if they want to sound you out on the subject . |
| 12 | Some do it because they want to belong to a group where sniffing happens to be part of the group 's activities . |
| 13 | Women are free to choose where they want to go for advice and treatment . |
| 14 | But in practice they award half-points more often than full points because , I suspect , they want to be seen to have a high standard . |
| 15 | They want six thousand , ’ he paused , ‘ not more , a mere six thousand . |
| 16 | In some ways people in London ( flower of cities all , as a Scots poet put it long ago ) , both men and women , have more freedom to live as they want than they have in most other cities . |
| 17 | What they want in future is 32 seeds in all the Grand Slam tournaments instead of the 16 they have at present . |
| 18 | If they want all the glory , it 's trouble for the coach . ’ |
| 19 | When choreographers have studied all the available sources of inspiration , they should consider what kind of ballet they want to create . |
| 20 | ‘ They 're only putting prices up in tenanted pubs because they want to frighten tenants out . ’ |
| 21 | They want all existing large dogs to be included in the provisions of the Dangerous Wild Animals Act and to ban Alsatians , Dobermanns , Rottweilers and other big breeds from future private ownership . |
| 22 | I refer to this significant dispute in passing , without engaging in it , except to say that feminists are divided on whether they want to establish a countercanon or extend the existing one . |
| 23 | They want to kill . |
| 24 | They want the Prime Minister to use the Conservative Party conference next week to slap down this turbulent priest . |
| 25 | It is small wonder that they want out . |
| 26 | Little kids eat you alive , they want so much physically and emotionally . ’ |
| 27 | Mr Carey said : ‘ We submitted a bid which tried to be clear about the problems , and to arrive at a view of what is practicable , which disturbs MPs as little as possible , while giving the broadcasters what they want . |
| 28 | But now they want him back . |
| 29 | Filipinos have not demonstrated in the streets , but it has become increasingly clear they want Ferdinand Marcos , the former Philippine president who died in exile in Hawaii last week , to be allowed home for burial . |
| 30 | Over the last 20 years people have been buying as opposed to renting and once they own something they want to keep it separate . |