Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 2 | ‘ The locals are praying that he wants to stay in Santa Barbara forever . |
| 3 | It was from this position of moral and physical strength that he negotiated the treaty of Troyes , whose terms suggest that he wanted to change as little as possible . |
| 4 | ‘ Other clubs should know that we want to buy their players , not sell to them . ’ |
| 5 | Anyone viewing all this nonsense from another planet — as most men do — can be forgiven for assuming that women are a bunch of mixed up crazies who do n't know what they want , but do know that they want it all , both ways and with jam on the top , too . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know that he wanted it . |
| 7 | ‘ About my book , ’ he said , hesitating , ‘ I do n't know that I want to go on with it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know that I want to play , either . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know that I want it anywhere . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't ever doubt that I want you , Isabel , ’ he said , his voice so hoarse that the words sounded as if they were torn from deep inside him . |
| 11 | I do not doubt that she wants to live and we all hope that she will . |
| 12 | If it 's too painful for her to accept that I want to look for Elaine , then I sha n't . ’ |
| 13 | er and and and nice to know that we want to establish contact and you may be aware that we 've had this plan , and , and what we want it to achieve is so and so , and we 'd like to set it up in this way . |
| 14 | Thomas Cook was one of the first entrepreneurs to see the huge possibilities of rail travel and in 1844 , after the success of his early excursions , he pronounced that he wanted ‘ railways for the millions ’ . |
| 15 | I subsequently wrote to you thanking you for this most generous offer and explaining that we wanted to use them as prizes in a raffle but were unable to proceed at that time . |
| 16 | For example , if you realise that you want your presentation to be on a different medium then you can do so — and see at a glance the effect of changing the underlying presentation style . |
| 17 | The jobs from which we say that we want to rescue people are in industries which , thankfully , are now in decline . |
| 18 | First , I believe that I speak for a number of my hon. Friends when I say that we want the Bill to reach the statute book , come what may , in view of the approaching general election , and I hope that it will be given a fair wind . |
| 19 | Say that we want it set up in here with a photograph and that wants to be on the thing outsi |
| 20 | Just as in this country , people in the US also say that they want information about APRs to be disclosed for credit transactions . |
| 21 | The company claims that customers say that they want to do their development at the workgroup level in an open systems environment , on a range of hardware and under different operating systems , and to share data in a decentralised development environment , rather than have it all tied to the Repository on the mainframe server . |
| 22 | While it does seem to be a little less pernicious , in that male respondents less often say that they want to marry only a woman who is a virgin than they used to , it is still alive and well in that women are more often criticized than men for engaging in non-marital sexual activity . |
| 23 | Although both sides say that they want peace , innocent civilians are being slaughtered , their economies are being ruined , more than 400,000 of them are refugees and homeless and Dubrovnik , that jewel of the Adriatic , faces destruction . |
| 24 | They say that they want real convergence and decisions in the treaty for which no one else in the Community has argued at any stage . |
| 25 | Labour Members say that they want to have a debate , yet because they have been discomfited in other debates they have come in to the Chamber to start shouting and jeering . |
| 26 | The spastics society , which have their own centres in Britain , say that they want to introduce conductive Education to this country , but setting up a centre like the Peto Institute will take time and money . |
| 27 | ‘ You say that you want total honesty from me , and then you throw me out when you get it ! |
| 28 | ‘ The newspapers say that you want to marry her . |
| 29 | When the class are getting ready to take action : " You say that you want to convince the Giant you 're friendly . |
| 30 | I think , while I say that I want children , and do I have a child , that i , it 's not made particularly easy . |