Example sentences of "they want [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said , well why do they want to live in Exeter particularly ? |
| 2 | But they did n't , so why did they want to come to Britain ? |
| 3 | Researchers rarely conduct research with a finished model of the causal process they want to test in mind . |
| 4 | Next week parents are due to receive ballot papers to vote on whether they want to push for grant maintained status after years of waiting for the council to convert promises into action . |
| 5 | They are supposed to be cheerful and rejoice , when they want to weep with terror and self-pity . |
| 6 | ‘ But they want to talk about work , Maggie , get us into a union and all that . |
| 7 | POLICE last night named a man they want to quiz in connection with the murder of Michael Huntington at a nurses ' home party 11 days ago . |
| 8 | Are the Government going to send other material that they want to launder to Wandsworth prison or are they now going to come clean about this episode ? |
| 9 | Already ‘ wish lists ’ have been made where staff indicate what they want to see from agency status and these suggestions have been acted on . |
| 10 | There is now plenty of choice for the investor who knows what he or she wants to invest in , but there is still something of a vacuum for investors with less than £50,000 which they want to put into shares directly . |
| 11 | … children find it easier to improvise , and therefore liberate themselves in terms of discovering and finding valuable ways of expressing what they want to say through sound , but also learning new skills through improvisation . |
| 12 | They use the miracles to illustrate what they want to say about Jesus . |
| 13 | They want to appeal to people 's better nature , but to do that they ca n't point out what shmucks most of us are , most of the time . |
| 14 | People can not afford to do the things they want to do in space . |
| 15 | He 's the rock Northern Ireland 's strikers must get past if they want to succeed at Lansdowne Road next week . |
| 16 | Women are free to choose where they want to go for advice and treatment . |
| 17 | Women are free to choose where they want to go for advice and treatment . |
| 18 | That 's where the sheep go when they want to go to bed . |
| 19 | Schoolcard holders can go on the bus if accompanied by no more than four adults — if they want to go by train they must have an Adult DayRover ; a Family DayRover is for two adults and three child permit holders or one adult and four child permit holders with dog . |
| 20 | In fact they are highly competent and by taking advantage of the desire of some of them to work part-time he can use their experience as and when , for instance , they want to return to work after having children . |
| 21 | They want to get away ; they want to forget about politics ; they want to reintroduce themselves to their families . |
| 22 | They want to hear from readers who had relatives serving in the war with the 1st , 2nd , 3rd or 4th Battalions , Tyneside Scottish , and who may have relevant diaries , letters or photographs in their possession . |
| 23 | Like every other intelligence agency the NSA is very good at giving politicians what they want to hear in peacetime but it has no wartime experience at all . |
| 24 | RAIL passengers will have to pay more for their tickets next year if they want to travel in comfort and arrive on time . |
| 25 | That 's what I 'm saying , they need , they need just a little , in fact we do here you could argue , er , I feel that all the elements there are of a turning into something a bit ugly , I think , I think they were very quick to drop those statues down , now I know , I know the fellow who in , who set up the K G B could have been the most popular bloke in the Soviet Union , but nonetheless , er he was down within a day , I hear this morning that Yeltsin 's talking about border changes and quite frankly they 're moving too quick and Gorbachev at least was providing a bit of restraint , and I think it , they want to think in terms of decade . |
| 26 | The charity shop 's not really a proper shop — it ai n't smart or none of that , and there 's just a couple of old women sitting by an electric fire and helping out customers when they want to try on clothes and that . |
| 27 | I imagine they 're still adamant that they want to care for Jennifer themselves . |
| 28 | They want to place on record the generous support that they 've had from you and for the , yes in a moment , the seconder of the emergency motion for er moving her support . |
| 29 | Police have released a video fit picture of a man they want to question in connection with three sex-attacks in Oxford . |
| 30 | Many applicants will have a firm idea of what they want to study at university , but others will want to take some time to consider various possibilities before they apply . |