Example sentences of "want [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we want them to be accessible , not stuffy . ’ |
| 2 | They go now with a much greater knowledge of their customers to manufacturers and say : ‘ We want our products to be made like this for us and we want them to be our products . ’ |
| 3 | She wanted him to be someone she could love and idealised the future in her head , but then found herself thinking about that most heartwrenching of adolescent discoveries ; people rarely are what you want them to be and betray you without malice , unaware of the pain they cause . |
| 4 | I want them to be amused . |
| 5 | They want them to be called Zimbabwe Ridgbacks . |
| 6 | Do n't be grumpy or touchy now — you 'll be glad to see them after 26.2 miles and you want them to be happy to see you too . |
| 7 | ‘ To make lips look fuller , the trick is to define them with a brown eyeliner and outline the shape you want them to be and then go for a light coloured lipstick . |
| 8 | Some people try to force their partner to be the person they want them to be . |
| 9 | But they want them to be more explicit , a survey by Channel 4 's Check Out show reveals today . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We want them to be light and compact , yet robust , stable and reliable ; simple to operate , yet capable of reasonably fine heat control ; economical with fuel , yet able to bring pans to the boil quickly ; and despite all these conflicting demands , they must be safe to use in difficult field conditions . |
| 12 | Second , users want them to be portable , so size and battery life is important . |
| 13 | You have to care for them , which means starting from where they are in life , not where you want them to be , and taking their lives and lack of belief seriously . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These guys therefore must have a facility of ensuring that the price is correct , from an internal control point of view I want them to be involved in certifying that the price is correct . |
| 16 | I want them to be impressed by what they see . |
| 17 | You want them to be independently funded ? ’ |
| 18 | Will society want them to be literate and numerate in the senses we now use the words ? |
| 19 | Sometimes that is difficult because we will implement them and we want them to be fairly applied across the Community . |
| 20 | Magistrates and others who have called for more secure places want them to be used to contain the activities of young offenders who are not currently kept in prison accommodation , like so-called joyriders and repetitive burglars . |
| 21 | In contrast , ‘ this time we can be better prepared … this is a time for doing the thinking , so that we can make things how we want them to be ’ . |
| 22 | So you want them to be called interim fieldwork reports . |
| 23 | Well we we we 'd want the controls on the left and we want them to be split . |
| 24 | We want them to be bailed.A consular official has made regular visits to the jail . |
| 25 | They want them to be more answerable to public opinion . |
| 26 | So what I 'm suggesting you do is , decide roughly what your categories are going to be , and write at the top of the in pencil , or on the tabs themselves in pencil , as to what you , you want them to be . |
| 27 | The columns are always one square out , from what you want them to be . |
| 28 | Take people to objections , take them to where you want them to be and bear in mind you 're always looking for an objection |
| 29 | I 'd like to see what hard nosed er B A I E people would make of it you know people who are making a living from doing the same well you know when I employ somebody coming into the business this is what I want them to be able to do um this has always been of course an a criticism |
| 30 | Sometimes I wear things that do n't conform because I want to say to people : I do n't want to be the way you want me to be . |