Example sentences of "[pron] they want [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a modern society , it is — more or less — up to the individuals or couples to choose the age at which they marry or enter into one kind of conjugal union or another , to decide whether they should have a child or children or not , mow many children they want to have and at what intervals , and to opt for an age at which they want to cease childbearing , etc . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers . |
| 4 | It has to be a serious process of thought and research , both about the candidate 's own interests and motivation , and about the type of course and institution which they want to attend . |
| 5 | In response to requests from a number of Departments within the University , the Enterprise Centre looked at the provision made for students wishing to start their own businesses or with business ideas which they want to explore . |
| 6 | Corporate members , which they want to admit next year alongside names trading with unlimited liability , will have to bid for a place — the price being a levy to Lloyd 's central fund . |
| 7 | First they must have confidence that it will work : that it can produce the kinds of things which they want to buy . |
| 8 | Now firms based in New York — including investment banks such as Bear Sterns and Goldman Sachs as well as specialist brokers like MJ Whitman — have been calling banks in London , quoting prices at which they want to buy banks ' loans to GPA . |
| 9 | It has sought to get them to extend loans to borrowers , who hitherto , because of their low incomes or because of the areas in which they want to buy houses , have not been able to get help from the societies . |
| 10 | In favour , are facts such as : ( a ) When a relative clause is attached to a clause as its head , then it is introduced by the " which " marker which follows noun phrases , and not the " as " marker used for verbs and verb phrases : ( 65 ) the mountain which they want to climb is Mount Elburz he swept the yard as he was instructed ( 66 ) McRowen queried the call , which infuriated the umpire McRowen queried the call , as ( it ) infuriated the umpire ( b ) Clauses take , in bigger clauses , positions that are commonly filled by noun phrases : ( 67 ) Marples heard the news ( 68 ) Marples heard that the soup was contaminated This is true even of so-called adverbial clauses : ( 69 ) Peggy realized her error after Christmas ( 70 ) Peggy realized her error after the Christmas season was ended |
| 11 | The 362p at which they want to place the shares is 16p below the 378p paper value of Hongkong 's bid ( excluding the 7p dividend which Midland holders keep ) . |
| 12 | Realising that if any modules which they want to read are offline , then this will result in a delay to all modules requested at the same time while those offline are brought back online . |
| 13 | I told you they want to do another X-ray , and they 're sending him to Carlisle for that , the Cumberland Infirmary . ’ |
| 14 | There 's a very good example of that in the film you 'll see , where somebody phones up , and does n't quite know who they want to speak to , but they get through to a department , and they say , ‘ Oh , I 've left some money ’ , and the caller immediately , and the person who 's received the call immediately says , ‘ Ah , money ! , you want the treasurers department , I 'll put you through ’ , and before the chap 's had a chance to say , ‘ No , no , no , I really want to speak to you , they 've gone , and they 're back at the switchboard . ’ |
| 15 | They say who they want to send it to , add a few notes , send it off and are dropped straight back into the spreadsheet . ’ |
| 16 | But once you break that down and start to have lots of small independent production companies , then you find very many larger numbers of women and everyone can choose who they want to work with . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the managers , having probably visited several venture capitalists with their business plan at the outset of the buy-out process , may well have their own views about who they want to work with , and will wish to be involved in the syndication process . |
| 18 | Dots mime everything they want to convey , with surprising success . |
| 19 | So we look for situations where our learners will really have something they want to say to each other . |
| 20 | Now one or two people have got something they want to ask . |
| 21 | everyone has something they want to do or can do . |
| 22 | Over the last 20 years people have been buying as opposed to renting and once they own something they want to keep it separate . |
| 23 | Is it something they want to know about ? |
| 24 | She had soon learned that almost everybody has something they want to hide , and something they 're eager to share . |
| 25 | The hard life of the earth is the life they know and the one they want to live . |
| 26 | Team one they want to put out more in the first division and , I could not be party to that team one and it was an atrocity to use such terminology . |
| 27 | I know that Quins have been heavily criticised for fielding weak teams in league games , but it is an amateur sport and they are entitled to select whomsoever they want to see out there . |
| 28 | ‘ Nothing they want to hear . |
| 29 | Unfortunately it 's not me they want to love and cherish it . |
| 30 | A lot of my work has been concerned with this area and as my experience has grown I have learnt to wait until the people involved tell me they want to talk . |