Example sentences of "want them [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make them work — if you do n't want them to spend the day , and your money , sitting with their feet up . ’ |
| 2 | Do you want them to do a menu rotation or keep making them up every week ? |
| 3 | When it comes to cutting finishing panels above or to the side of your frame to fill any gaps , you will want them to follow the line of the wall or ceiling exactly , however uneven that might be . |
| 4 | The only problem is that it can be terribly difficult to read — and you do want them to read the copy do n't you ? |
| 5 | Shall I just throw these away then or do you want them to have a second look at or , yeah , I 'll bin them . |
| 6 | I do n't want them to suffer the fate of appearing in an auction catalogue and having the state of their fur criticised . |
| 7 | I do n't want them to pull the building down anyway . |
| 8 | ‘ I believe I have two more years of top-class rugby in me and I want them to include a return to the England team . ’ |
| 9 | a part payment of money , which is made so that the seller will not sell the goods to anyone else : You must pay a deposit to the hotel if you want them to keep a room free for you compare earnest(1) 3 an act or action of depositing : The rate of the river 's deposit of mud is about one inch a year deposit account n. a bank account which earns interest and usu. from which money can be taken out only if advance notice is given . |
| 10 | I want them to share the Person who has filled my life with such abundance . |
| 11 | We just do n't seem to be able to track them down or attract them in quite the same way , so there is a massive practical problem if you want them to have a voice in how things are done , there 's no doubt about that . |
| 12 | We want them to have the choice of hearing more about the world — Europe , South East Asia , the developing world . |
| 13 | Guy tells them they do n't look like they 're enjoying things and he wants them to take a holiday . |
| 14 | To be an effective leader , to get bureaucrats and legislators to do what he wants them to do a president must retain the support of the public and , in the modern age , that is hardly possible without consistent command of television . |
| 15 | She wants them to see the killer caught and tried . |
| 16 | She wants them to see the killer caught and tried . |
| 17 | Not to sing , he wants them to play the guitar with . |
| 18 | We wanted them to represent a section of the community that was quite close in the social hierarchy to the inner-city population , and in the event many speakers in the samples had inner-city social and family contacts . |
| 19 | I wanted them to have a programme they could say they watched simply because they liked and enjoyed it . ’ |
| 20 | Tolkien wanted his poems to make good sense in their dramatic context , as part of the story of The Lord of the Rings ; he also wanted them to suggest a truth independent of their context . |
| 21 | They were enough to stretch a teacher who wanted them to learn the beauty of poetry . |
| 22 | I wanted them to learn the piano and both did learn . |
| 23 | He wanted them to write a television show for him . |