Example sentences of "[adv] want they to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
| 2 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
| 3 | We do not want them to be upset , so we keep them away from funerals , or from saying goodbye , face to face , to their relatives and friends . |
| 4 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 5 | People say : ‘ Students are by definition idealistic and impatient — would Mugabe really want them to be any different ? |
| 6 | ‘ Would n't want them to be teaching us . |
| 7 | ‘ Because when we do join up on the Monday , I do n't want them to be going into the game cold . |
| 8 | President-elect Clinton , in the second day of his barnstorming session on the economy in Little Rock , Arkansas said of the IBM cut-backs ‘ That kind of investment is the exact thing we do n't want them to be cutting . ’ |
| 9 | We do n't want them to be with us . |
| 10 | We did n't tell them about the Germans because we did n't want them to be more worried than they were already . |
| 11 | Since I 've recently had my car radio stolen I 'm quite in favour of them not being sold at the car boot sales perhaps somebody would like to returns it to me but erm , the , you know , I 'm er you know they do need some restr , some legislation but I would n't want them to be legislated out of existence . |
| 12 | Bud did n't want them to be done anyway . |
| 13 | No I do n't want them to be there . |