Example sentences of "if they want " in BNC.
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| 1 | I belonged to that great multitude who could n't help liking Dick Crossman : he and I were always nice to one another , right to the day in 1974 shortly before his death when he came to the Birmingham Bull Ring in acute physical discomfort to hear me advise my fellow-electors to vote Labour if they wanted out of the Common Market . |
| 2 | Ian Robertson and Rea are both of them knowledgeable and accomplished enough to make their living in political and current affairs television , if they wanted to . |
| 3 | They rarely meet opposition from the village militia , who have no training and not enough ammunition to put up a fight even if they wanted to . |
| 4 | There was one lady called ‘ Toss-Off Kate ’ who used to go round the audience and sit beside various isolated gentlemen and ask them if they wanted to be serviced . |
| 5 | You were half-way to being a lady 's maid with these private patients and if they wanted you to paint their fingernails while they told you their life histories you could n't choose but obey . |
| 6 | Those who did n't are responding by pointing out that some of those who did ought to have stood as candidates if they wanted a real revolt . |
| 7 | ‘ The Syrian forces could , if they wanted , speedily resolve the problem of Gen Aoun in Lebanon through military means , but the Syrian leadership is fully convinced there will be no need to resort to this as Gen Aoun 's removal is a matter of time and will take place quickly through political means . ’ . |
| 8 | So , one night , it was decided to ask the audience if they wanted an Arts Lab , and during one of his talks to the audience , as David also acted as compère , he asked whether they would like an Arts Lab in Beckenham , with the folk club being the start of it . |
| 9 | Yet half the names could not leave even if they wanted to : they are locked into the 58 ( out of a total of 401 ) Lloyd 's syndicates that have been unable to close one or more of their past annual accounts , so unquantifiable are the liabilities stacking up against them . |
| 10 | The 1920 Treaty of Sèvres provided for this , and for the Kurdish vilayets , or provinces , of Kirkuk and Mosul to join ‘ Kurdistan ’ , if they wanted to . |
| 11 | One suggestion was that discretion should be left to the doctors and that they should tick a box if they wanted the generic drug . |
| 12 | We have not mentioned what happens if the cause of death is unknown and inquests or autopsies have to be carried out ; or if the deceased person wanted to donate organs ; if they wanted to be buried in another country , and so on . |
| 13 | By 1901 there were just over 10,000 ministers at work in England and Wales into whose hands the faithful could , if they wanted , surrender their consciences . |
| 14 | Mrs Anne Lennox , whose husband , Sqn Ldr Garry Lennox , was shot down and killed over Iraq , said that the three RAF widows would have to undergo ‘ demeaning means tests ’ years from now if they wanted something from the fund . |
| 15 | About mid-winter every year the members of the Assembly were asked if they wanted to hold an ostracism . |
| 16 | Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know — but if they wanted to . |
| 18 | I recall the gist of it implied that they could n't sit there sunbathing too long if they wanted to get through all seven tops . |
| 19 | From 1977 , if they wanted to cross the Atlantic cheaply , they turned to Freddie Laker . |
| 20 | And if they wanted him to be boring then that would be the performance that he would offer . |
| 21 | Obviously , if they wanted to put a lurid picture on the cover , or a picture of a cock , we would ask them why they wanted to do such a thing , ’ says Marshall . |
| 22 | A teacher from an urban school , discussing the reasons for a recent teachers ' strike , said that not only were salaries low when the amount of time worked outside classroom hours was taken into account , but also teachers often had to pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets , if they wanted to have any . |
| 23 | Most of those leaving the cities have had to buy their way out if they wanted to live in environmentally more-attractive areas that , particularly in the south of England and — to some extent — increasingly elsewhere , were proving to be the most economically active . |
| 24 | The students had no room in which to wait between lectures , but it was suggested to MRCVS that students who lodged near enough might go home if they wanted to , or more usefully spend their non-lecture time in the dissecting room or in the stables , although the Bell & Crown inn , with a good fire , was close at hand . |
| 25 | ‘ The unit I work on , I think if they wanted to grieve , I would grieve with them . |
| 26 | And ( because of their non-educational environment ) it is difficult to see how public libraries can meet this requirement , even if they wanted to . |
| 27 | There would be an hour 's stop in Sudbury for everyone to stretch their legs if they wanted to , and dinner would be served as soon as the train started again . |
| 28 | ‘ But if they wanted to kidnap you , why did n't they make a better job of it ? ’ asked Jack . |
| 29 | Obviously , not all elderly parents who live alone are in need of a great deal of assistance : they just like to know that it would be available if they wanted it . |
| 30 | The parents had n't been offered any sort of advice or counselling ; they had all received a letter from Paul Lee inviting them to come and talk to his department , but no one had offered them any information about their children ; if they wanted that they had to ring up the department and ask for it . |