Example sentences of "want they to be " in BNC.
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1 | People say : ‘ Students are by definition idealistic and impatient — would Mugabe really want them to be any different ? |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ Would n't want them to be teaching us . |
4 | I am really glad of it ; I do n't think I would want them to be there , just in case I lost . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
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 | How long do you want them to be on H R T for ? |
10 | We do n't want them to be with us . |
11 | We did n't tell them about the Germans because we did n't want them to be more worried than they were already . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | It may however be relevant where the vendor is a partnership in which case each partner will be asked to provide the warranties and , in such circumstance , the purchaser will want them to be given on a joint and several basis . |
14 | Do we want them to be involved ? |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ‘ We ca n't see Charlton Athletic , Chester City or Maidstone United being refused entry , nor would we want them to be , ’ he says . |
17 | Bud did n't want them to be done anyway . |
18 | No I do n't want them to be there . |
19 | Would you want them to be able to express their emotions more intensely and precisely , able to show how they feel ? |
20 | ‘ Making people look the way you want them to is an important part of the colonial process . |
21 | But we want them to be accessible , not stuffy . ’ |
22 | They go now with a much greater knowledge of their customers to manufacturers and say : ‘ We want our products to be made like this for us and we want them to be our products . ’ |
23 | She wanted him to be someone she could love and idealised the future in her head , but then found herself thinking about that most heartwrenching of adolescent discoveries ; people rarely are what you want them to be and betray you without malice , unaware of the pain they cause . |
24 | I want them to be amused . |
25 | They want them to be called Zimbabwe Ridgbacks . |
26 | Do n't be grumpy or touchy now — you 'll be glad to see them after 26.2 miles and you want them to be happy to see you too . |
27 | ‘ To make lips look fuller , the trick is to define them with a brown eyeliner and outline the shape you want them to be and then go for a light coloured lipstick . |
28 | Some people try to force their partner to be the person they want them to be . |
29 | But they want them to be more explicit , a survey by Channel 4 's Check Out show reveals today . |
30 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |