Example sentences of "what they want [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elderly people can be greatly helped if we listen to what they want to say , and receive their information as important . |
| 2 | Speakers express their message in terms of their own perceptions and within their own frame of reference without making any attempt to relate what they want to say with what the other person is likely to hear . |
| 3 | We should restrict ourselves to trying to understand , and then try to help them expand and develop what they want to say . |
| 4 | They use the miracles to illustrate what they want to say about Jesus . |
| 5 | Silence : allow parents to think and formulate what they want to say . |
| 6 | That speakers do introduce what they want to say via some form of personal reference has a noticeable effect on the structure of contributions in conversational discourse . |
| 7 | In this case , speakers or writers start out with a semantic representation of what they want to say or write , and search for the corresponding phonological information ( enabling one to say a word ) or orthographical information ( enabling one to write a word . |
| 8 | … 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 . |
| 9 | I think here in Oxford we 've got good health education , but we still need to make sure that it 's appropriate , that it 's sensitive to people 's needs , and actually tells people what they want know , and I hope that anyone out there will contact agencies to make sure that they 're updated on the information . |
| 10 | So it 's what they want to talk about anyway |
| 11 | What they want to see now is action . |
| 12 | Once parents begin to think about what they want to see their child doing rather than what they do n't want to see , their whole orientation to management starts to change . |
| 13 | There 's projects with the kids you know get the kids to work on what they want what they want to see get them to work on their parents and find out you could find out then whether there is or not in Harlow . |
| 14 | But what they want to see — the physical image — that 's where the Designer 's expertise comes in . |
| 15 | Observing that people 's perceptions of reality are often determined by their expectations ( they see what they want to see ) and that this can contribute to a serious disjunction between ‘ espoused theory ’ and ‘ theory in use ’ , they proposed strategies for increasing professional effectiveness based on encouraging receptivity to critical feedback . |
| 16 | Already ‘ wish lists ’ have been made where staff indicate what they want to see from agency status and these suggestions have been acted on . |
| 17 | What the statistics show is that the centre is offering visitors what they want to see . ’ |
| 18 | I think we 've settled down to a pattern of events now which schools have actually indicated to us is what they want to see . |
| 19 | When they say that nothing happens I wonder what they want to happen . |
| 20 | Eighty-four per cent of the 711 men who are currently sexually active are confident they can let their partner know what they want to happen ; 9% are n't sure and 7% say they ca n't . |
| 21 | Erm if the Liberals wants they want to stop seventy two point six er million but they seem to do rather than go to seventy three point three which is what they want to reach , what they want to look at originally . |
| 22 | The Ramblers are clear about what they want done . |
| 23 | The advantage , however , of first letting them improvise more freely in small groups is that with careful monitoring you can see what 's interesting them , what they want to explore in their drama . |
| 24 | In that case , the hon. Gentleman sets an example and shows that in a free society people can decide what they want to drink . |
| 25 | Always remember that they have asked to see you and that is what they want to do . |
| 26 | Women make their own minds up about what they want to do , I find , so I left it ; but about a year ago she invited me to a party and indicated that whoever it had been was no longer around . |
| 27 | It does not seem to take into account that many people may be quite grateful to have restrictions imposed on their sexual behaviour , while others can perfectly well get on with what they want to do and keep quiet about it . |
| 28 | The meme for celibacy is transmitted by priests to young boys who have not yet decided what they want to do with their lives . |
| 29 | They want to have total creative control of their own development , and I like bands that have really strong views of what they want to do . ’ |
| 30 | In fact it is likely that they have chosen to work in the CAB because this is what they want to do . |