Example sentences of "it be [conj] [pers pn] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Might it be , I 'm only hazarding a guess , you realize that , but might it be that they want you to get them out here again ? ’ |
| 2 | I do n't know whether it 's that we want much , too much |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not the money — it 's whether you want to do it . |
| 4 | Two days later he tells me : ‘ It 's like they want to copy everything down to the smallest detail . |
| 5 | I mean we 're no when we have s like egg and chips , it 's cos we want to , not because we 've got to . |
| 6 | Erm If it 's if you want some kind of a guideline I think last year I ca n't remember but I think we I think last year we actually had to ask because the parish could n't support it totally . |
| 7 | It 's er it 's like , y'know if your dog 's called Rover , it 's if you want get it to pay attention , it 's the way you say Rover or B M W or . |
| 8 | It 's if you want to do something . |
| 9 | Well I think it 's If you want it . |
| 10 | We got trips we got make-up , how to look after your face , got a healthy diet , you got this i , there 's a help line and it 's if you want that . |
| 11 | It 's not because we ca n't get anybody else , it 's because we want to involve you . |
| 12 | Yeah find out , I mean exactly sort of trying to find out exactly what it is that they want to think about , suggest , you know |
| 13 | Er the goods that what , not goods that we want to give them like junk food and ludicrous fashions , to find out what it is that they want this of equipment and no , and do n't forget the know-how , I mean we are , we have a hell of a Know-how in this country which is not being used . |
| 14 | You know , er given enough time and preparation and if we define clearly what it is that we want to analyze , you know I can provide that information er in the form of a report or in a rawish state and we could discuss that . |
| 15 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 16 | ‘ And you know , you have n't yet told me what it is that you want , ’ he said , and sat back , and eyed them expectantly , first one and then another , which Fribble found disconcerting . |
| 17 | Erm , could I ask you to just share with us briefly , er , not in great detail , but , just a few words about what it is that you want to influence somebody about . |
| 18 | so you 're very clear about what it is that you want |
| 19 | when you 're clear about what it is that you want you can be assertive |
| 20 | We talked about it being clear , being clear about what it is that you want . |
| 21 | Being submissive is the co point where what happens when you 're submissive you keep it inside you do n't feel you 're worthy enough or you have n't got you have n't got the self esteem to rate yourself as being able to have what it is that you want , so you keep it inside and you do n't say anything and then you walk away should 've said this and should 've said that and all it does is eat away at you and it does that to you physically as well I mean scientific tests are already showing now that physically these sort of things you do if often be submissive enough what that does it pretty much helps helps you to eat your body up from the inside and causes physical problems which pretty much do that anyway . |
| 22 | Collect so many tokens you get a T V or a washing machine or whatever it is that you want . |
| 23 | It is whether we want to be rich or poor — rich in Europe or poor outside it . |
| 24 | It is because they want a super-state . |