Example sentences of "[noun sg] they want [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man they want to trace is in his late fifties , about five feet five to five six . |
| 2 | Girls often become very close to their mothers , consequently the last thing they want to do is to bring any form of unhappiness to their lives . |
| 3 | ‘ If someone has gone through the trauma of a crime like this the last thing they want to see is a court handing out a light sentence , ’ she said . |
| 4 | They 've already lost the centre half the last thing they want to happen is to lose a centre forward . |
| 5 | Then the really hard part is persuading the public to listen , because the last thing they want to believe is that the charlatan in the white coat is n't going to give them a cure for cancer , a promise he 's been renewing at regular intervals for the past two hundred years . |