Example sentences of "that [indef pn] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | In pictures released to celebrate the anniversary , the happy-ever-after ending that everyone wanted is plain to see . |
| 2 | Like sunnink reely glamorous that everyone wants an' I ca n't see woss so wrong wiv vat. 'Cos I ai n't gonner get no kitchen wiv pitcher winders an' some geezer wiv a pipe like you was on abaht am I now ? |
| 3 | Alexander said that everyone wants to be right but no one stops to think whether their idea of right is in fact right . |
| 4 | The reason we want to adopt other people 's beliefs is that we know that everyone wants their own beliefs to be true : because , as we 've seen , truth is what makes our own beliefs useful to us in the way I described earlier , by making our actions succeed in fulfilling our desires . |
| 5 | ‘ Manchester United are the team that everyone wants to beat . |
| 6 | It seemed that everyone wanted to know about what I was doing . |
| 7 | Their success gave them a power that everyone wanted to share ; their commercial momentum carried the whole pop world along . |
| 8 | That 's how I felt all the time ; this constant feeling that no-one wanted me to be there , no-one gave a f— about me . |
| 9 | The draw that no-one wanted — away to Dungannon — fell to City of Derry . |
| 10 | It 's hardly surprising that no-one wants to miss their moment of glory . |
| 11 | In 1966 , soon after the book appeared , my agent told me that someone wanted to make a film out of it . |
| 12 | I missed the joy of knowing , in the back of my mind , that someone wanted me , that sometimes , when we could manage it , I could escape from the world of work , washing and worrying into a place of pure pleasure . |
| 13 | The dilemma is simple : if the Sistine Chapel 's wall and ceiling were intended to be preserved as form , they should not have been painted with frescoes , it means that someone wanted to remove forever their original architectural character and create something else , which is acceptable ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I wonder what was in the briefcase that someone wanted it so badly ? ’ he said aloud . |
| 15 | The authorities may acquire any work of art that someone wants to export . |
| 16 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 17 | I do n't know why we 're different except that someone wants to makes some trouble . |
| 18 | So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into . |
| 19 | THE GENIUS THAT NOBODY WANTS |
| 20 | THE Battle of Britain between Rangers and Leeds United is the European tie that nobody wants . |
| 21 | That day , she only realised that nobody wants their special enemy , chosen with care and attacked with force , to renounce the role and throw down arms and instead bare their breasts for an embrace . |
| 22 | I am reminded that when I suggested that the £7 billion of expenditure on the European fighter aircraft might be better spent — it seems dodgy anyhow — or used for civilian aircraft , his contribution to planned change was to suggest that nobody wants single-seater civilian aircraft flying at 750 mph . |
| 23 | Er Councillor Poole it seems that nobody wants to shift the trees . |
| 24 | I am really sad that nobody wants to do it like I have done it for them . |
| 25 | Absolutely but he 's up against the fact that nobody wants to know what he 's doing . |
| 26 | There were not many talented British filmmakers , and American distributors were not simply being awkward when they decided to do no more than fulfil the letter of the law by distributing films from far-off parts of the British Commonwealth that nobody wanted to see . |
| 27 | A car that nobody wanted to buy , built on a site chosen for political not commercial reasons , hundreds of miles from its component suppliers . |
| 28 | So the Local Authorities would be left to administer only those schools that nobody wanted to go to . |
| 29 | The more I researched , the more I realised that I was missing the dog that did n't bark — and that was all the stuff that was being done by women to men , that nobody wanted to talk about . |
| 30 | But by the end of the week Charlie had discovered that his barrow was still half-full of stale food that nobody wanted . |