Example sentences of "[conj] they want " in BNC.
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| 1 | They focus not on areas of need but on areas where they want to be seen to be giving , and that 's usually where the spotlight happens for the moment to be falling . |
| 2 | Independent companies are often the setting for bands who already have an idea of the sort of music they want to make , and where they want to end up . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a very informal place here — I like to keep an open door and staff and residents can wander where they want . |
| 4 | Briefly summarised , our scheme is likely to be attractive to those researchers who have reached a stage in their careers , either young post docs or those of more mature years , where they want to try something new or unconventional . |
| 5 | Pat , 43 , turns travel agent once a year to take a vote among neighbours where they want to go . |
| 6 | Few homes have anything like enough socket outlets , and so people are tempted to use multiple adaptors , and trail l=flexes all over the house in a desperate attempt to get power where they want it . |
| 7 | ‘ I said before , I wo n't go where they want me to go . |
| 8 | See lot lot of these jobs are done by the tide , say you take a ship now what 's been sunk in the river , at low tide they 'll put the wires underneath , make them fast to the ships and when the tide when the t t tide rise out come the ship , and they can take it where they want to . |
| 9 | You can not have women popping new people out of themselves just at random , when and where they want . |
| 10 | They go where they want and do whatever they like . |
| 11 | They can laugh because they 're the only people in Romania who can go where they want . |
| 12 | One way of allocating groups quickly and randomly , ensuring a good mix , is to ask the children to sit in a circle , allowing them to sit where they want , and then counting round the circle , giving each child a number — one to eight , then starting again . |
| 13 | It is very much up to individual groups to decide how long they want to go out , where they want to go and what they want to do , ’ said Mr Nelson . |
| 14 | ‘ A small minority of Members of Parliament after these weeks and months of debate have still been unable to tell us what they want , where they want to lead this country and who is going with them . ’ |
| 15 | You have a mission of sacrifice ; here is a post of honour where they want to attack . |
| 16 | They want information about what the band is doing ; or they want to know where they can get T-shirts , sweatshirts , concert tickets and other merchandise . |
| 17 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |
| 18 | It is simply the ability which a person or group has to make others do what he , she or they want them to do . |
| 19 | The younger staff ‘ want overtime or they want call-out money , or God knows what ’ , he said , |
| 20 | I think it 's wrong to underestimate erm i i it 's particularly initially , how , how positively reinforced it can , it can be around you erm , just this the idea of losing weight and that er you know , people will be wha , for whatever reasons are , either envious or they want to know how you can do it , they want to know , and particularly if it 's linked with exercise then it 's all very good things to do and you know , the media 's telling you and a , everyone 's telling that this healthy lifestyle that actually then goes out of control through being so controlled erm e e , there 's a , well there 's a thin line between it , being a very positive experience , and you 're suddenly buying smaller jeans and erm you know , it 's just everything is is feeding , if that 's the right word , this idea that it , that that it 's tremendous to be |
| 21 | And those people that take or get extra , either their body is not producing or they want an extra bit for something so they can run a hundred yards at er in an extra five minutes . |
| 22 | We 've had a few people coming on and saying they want it to stay there or they want to leave it there but it 's the trees that 's really annoying people . |
| 23 | They actually look for strong leaders , or they want rules because they feel insecure without them . |
| 24 | to do something else elsewhere or they want to transfer to transport management or something like that as people do sometimes |
| 25 | This creates a conflict for them because , although they want to be stroked and petted like any other domestic cat , they are deeply suspicious of the hand that does the petting , fearing that at any moment it may grab them and hold them down . |
| 26 | Although they want to move they say the house is now virtually unsaleable . |
| 27 | Although they want to move they say the house is now virtually unsaleable . |
| 28 | Agents are doing a marvellous job in the face of adversity but current affairs and the depletion of rollover funds are undermining values more than they want to admit . |
| 29 | There they all are : working out the profit on their duty-free ; having more drinks at the bar than they want ; playing the fruit machines ; aimlessly circling the deck ; making up their minds how honest to be at customs ; waiting for the next order from the ship 's crew as if the crossing of the Red Sea depended on it . |
| 30 | One way people might respond to finding themselves with more real money than they want would be to use their excess holdings of money to buy bonds . |