Example sentences of "want [pers pn] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want them to be independently funded ? ’ |
| 2 | But they want them to be more explicit , a survey by Channel 4 's Check Out show reveals today . |
| 3 | They want them to be more responsible , more self-determining , to take matters into their own hands , and yet they oppose the only thing the tenants have of their own — organisation . |
| 4 | They want them to be more answerable to public opinion . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sometimes that is difficult because we will implement them and we want them to be fairly applied across the Community . |
| 7 | ‘ Mum and Dad want me to be here , I know . |
| 8 | I want you to be here with me . |
| 9 | Because this is the one I want you to be particularly be conscious of . |
| 10 | ‘ So I want you to be very brave while you listen to it . |
| 11 | I want you to be there . " |
| 12 | That 's why I want you to be there . ’ |
| 13 | So she said dad 's got to go straight down now for emergency surgery , come on then , for emergency surgery and they want you to be there before he goes , oh christ perhaps I 'm |
| 14 | When you book your ( Club 19–30 ) Holiday we want you to be so satisfied that you 'll book with us again next year . |
| 15 | The only point is that I want that foreigner not to undersell my labour and I want him to be as competent to do the work as well as I would do it myself . |
| 16 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've told my promoter Barry Hearn that I want it to come off next September and I want it to be outdoors . |
| 18 | On the one hand there are those who argue , in a fairly simplistic way , that if military expenditure is high , it must be because the people want it to be so . |
| 19 | The whole process is inescapable precisely because more and more people want it to be so . |
| 20 | I want it to be fairly flexible . |
| 21 | So if people want it to be there it should be there , no question . |
| 22 | These are mainly party intellectuals who still profess communism , but want it to be less centralising and more democratic . |
| 23 | Sarah drew an enormous breath , let it out , and said : ‘ If you really ask me , I want it to be as easy for me as for that man over there . |
| 24 | ‘ Look , Scott , we do n't want to be here any more than you want us to be here , ’ Gregson told him . |
| 25 | I want us to be together in the next life . ’ |
| 26 | I only want us to be together , always . ’ |