Example sentences of "they want [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researchers rarely conduct research with a finished model of the causal process they want to test in mind . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They are supposed to be cheerful and rejoice , when they want to weep with terror and self-pity . |
| 4 | ‘ But they want to talk about work , Maggie , get us into a union and all that . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Already ‘ wish lists ’ have been made where staff indicate what they want to see from agency status and these suggestions have been acted on . |
| 7 | … 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 . |
| 8 | People can not afford to do the things they want to do in space . |
| 9 | Women are free to choose where they want to go for advice and treatment . |
| 10 | Women are free to choose where they want to go for advice and treatment . |
| 11 | That 's where the sheep go when they want to go to bed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They want to get away ; they want to forget about politics ; they want to reintroduce themselves to their families . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | RAIL passengers will have to pay more for their tickets next year if they want to travel in comfort and arrive on time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Police have released a video fit picture of a man they want to question in connection with three sex-attacks in Oxford . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If the adventurers specifically state that they want to look for spell ingredients , or if a spellcaster makes an Int test without specifically stating this intention , they can find the following : a fire opal ( Resist Fire ) , a crystal prism ( Destroy Illusions ) , an 8-inch diameter golden hoop ( Vanish , but the hoop is red gold , so the spell will cost 9 MPs rather than 6 ) , a magnifying glass ( Banish Illusion ) , and a polished silver mirror ( Camouflage Illusion ) . |
| 21 | They must survive on meagre pensions , but are discriminated against if they want to stay in work . |
| 22 | Ms Devonald said : ‘ The competition will help the young people to say what they want to know about smoking , which will help them and other classes in the school to be better informed about smoking . ’ |
| 23 | One deplorable result of this early specialisation is that university science and engineering departments choose their students from the minority of sixth formers who knew at 16 that they wanted to continue with maths and science . |
| 24 | I told them I would n't have her , I , I if they wanted to go on holiday I would n't have her , I could n't have her in here she 'd knock everything to bits , try to move everything in here that she would n't chew |
| 25 | This means that the old people would be left with the abusers unless they wanted to go into care or unless they were themselves mentally impaired . |
| 26 | During the summer , both girls decided that they wanted to go to college to get some qualifications . |
| 27 | Two months earlier , the agent had discovered , the place had been rented by a small group of supposed ‘ rustic freaks ’ who claimed they wanted to return to nature , live simply and create artefacts in pottery and basket-weaving . |
| 28 | When we consulted our customers on how they wanted to pay for water , there was no clear preference . |
| 29 | And er I had asked there was anything you know , they would be interested in and they all agreed that they wanted to start with banking , and wha , see what Sandra had done last er ta last year with a group that they thought was very good getting them to be aware |
| 30 | ‘ Eleven members of staff volunteered and pupils paid 5p to vote for the one they wanted to cover in gunge . ’ |