Example sentences of "want them [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assure the House that , in all the speeches that I have made at police meetings and conferences this year , I have repeatedly stressed to the police that I want them to give this type of crime high priority . |
| 2 | As far as APEX is concerned they are OK up to a point but they just want to follow the legal procedures and we want them to take some kind of militant action . |
| 3 | ‘ I want them to have some privacy . ’ |
| 4 | And they warn that banks may well have their arms twisted by troubled clients who want them to convert dud loans into equity . |
| 5 | He wanted them to gather last Friday and be absented from their weekend round of Championship matches , but even Albert Ferrasse , the autocratic French Federation president , would not stand for that . |
| 6 | At other times his need to go to her was awful , He wanted them to complete each other , to be made fully whole and created by her , instead of enduring the throes of his uncreated self . |
| 7 | I remember an Oxford don complaining that she was tired of hearing the claim that universities should aim to produce ‘ rounded ’ people ; she wanted them to have sharp corners that would interact and strike sparks . |
| 8 | You came back and said you wanted them to have thirteen weeks . |
| 9 | I think you wanted them to have some time together but … but perhaps not most of the night , ’ she finished on a whisper . |
| 10 | Details of the registers would be available before the bill reached the committee stage but he wanted them to contain enough detail to be wholly credible in the eyes of the public . |