Example sentences of "they [adv] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they rather wanted me to wear my old farm clothes , but we compromised with a grey check skirt which a good friend gave me , and a blue jumper . |
| 2 | In a poll , published last week , asking voters to rank in order of priority the issues they most wanted discussed during the election campaign , unemployment came top by a long way , followed by worries about the funding of the badly-indebted State pension and social security fund , and then education and training . |
| 3 | That would drive him to madness , to the place they most wanted him , the place in which it would be even more difficult to find the Key ; an institution , a hospital where they filled you up with all sorts of disgusting drugs and deliberately kept you as stupid as the rest . |
| 4 | The rise in the quality of French tennis over the last 20 years , culminating in the emergence of players such as Yannick Noah , Henri Leconte and now Guy Forget , coupled with the transformation of the French Open at Roland Garros into what the majority of players regard as the best organised of the four Grand Slams ( even though Wimbledon remains favourite as to the one they most want to win ) are due very largely to the leadership he has shown . |
| 5 | But , as is common , they are also afraid of what they most want . |
| 6 | ‘ It is peer pressure which has the greatest weight when it comes to children deciding which toys they most want , ’ said Nielsen marketing director Colin Buckingham . |
| 7 | With all the macros together on one page , someone doing accounts where they only want some of the standard sheets , can just choose those that are relevant . ’ |
| 8 | For people who do n't want to do the pools ; they only want to win them . |
| 9 | And if they only want twenty-four hours then they 've already made the appointment to hand it over . |
| 10 | Most of the council estate dwellers I meet do n't — they only want a council house they could like and feel some control over . |
| 11 | From now on , they only want each other . |
| 12 | Because it 's there 's if I 'm there for three weeks and they only want a score card done then my potential earnings er total earnings are that but I 'm there anyway so if I 'm getting both of them done then I can earn a lot more money . |
| 13 | But you do have to , you do have to be aware of being too clever for your own good , because they only want a translation . |
| 14 | Families who 'll be watching to see what changes are made say they only want to make sure further tragedies are avoided . |
| 15 | If they only want me to stay for a year then I 'm entitled to do what I want under freedom of contract . |
| 16 | They only want , |
| 17 | Anyway if they only want one , two pound I 'll send it , we 'll send eight pound off for them if they 're any go any go if they 're alright then . |
| 18 | at the moment , only on a Sunday we get the odd meals on a Sunday , we get the odd meals on a Saturday night but nine times out of ten they only want to sit in there there 's a |
| 19 | I must have one Sunday in the year when we have Sunday lunch at mid-day and not in the evening , because , you know I get to carol services on And he said oh that 's alright , mum and dad eat mid-day anyway so they only want , erm , they only want biscuits and cake and maybe a bit of bread and butter what can you do ? |
| 20 | I must have one Sunday in the year when we have Sunday lunch at mid-day and not in the evening , because , you know I get to carol services on And he said oh that 's alright , mum and dad eat mid-day anyway so they only want , erm , they only want biscuits and cake and maybe a bit of bread and butter what can you do ? |
| 21 | They only want it for games do they ? |
| 22 | I 've got to go and tell the teacher this morning Alex needs to stay till twenty past three cos they only want them to stay till half two . |
| 23 | So they only want two . |
| 24 | Oh yes , they only want two so that would be you and a treasurer . |
| 25 | And the other difficulty is that if you 're , if you 're talking on a controversial subject , and you give three minutes and they only want one minute , they might actually choose the one minute you do n't want actually used . |
| 26 | He saw now that they only wanted the darned things for analysis . |
| 27 | They only wanted women and children , so Mam came to work here , and when I was big enough , I did too . |
| 28 | They only wanted her to clean out the drain with a stick . ’ |
| 29 | The aunts would reply indignantly that they only wanted to help , whereupon Addy would shout from the kitchen that if either of them could cook worth a damn perhaps they could be something other than a bloody nuisance . |
| 30 | Er you know they they only wanted er re really junior people . |