Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] that [pers pn] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was lowered from the stance to lie amongst the boulders and heather whingeing at my discomfort and misfortune as the crag was smothered by a swarm of conscientious drones climbing routes that I wanted to do . |
| 2 | A tremendous talent , but unless things were made very easy for him to get on and do things that he wanted to do , he would lose interest very quickly . |
| 3 | I think he could see things that he wanted to do individually , maybe in the same way that Hendrix did . |
| 4 | McClennan added : ‘ I have told Saints that I want a complete break from coaching and I will return home to Auckland at the end of the season . ’ |
| 5 | We do not recommend the ordinary letter service for sending things that you want covered for compensation . |
| 6 | It already makes us do things that we do not want to do and stops us doing things that we want to do . |
| 7 | Similarly , Heclo and Wildavsky 's classic study of the relationship between the Treasury and spending ministries in Britain highlights that the Treasury 's ability to secure spending decisions that it wants is contingent to a large degree upon the strategies employed in bargaining with spending ministries ( and vice versa ) . |
| 8 | They took things that I wanted to pass on to the children |
| 9 | ‘ It often happens that one who at first was listening gladly becomes exhausted and now opens his mouth no longer to give assent but to yawn , and even involuntarily gives signs that he wants to depart . |
| 10 | If Scotland were to have a Parliament with tax-raising powers , it could of course raise taxes that it wanted to raise , but the people of Scotland should be aware that there would then be no capping and no one to protect them from excessive expenditure decided by Strathclyde or Lothian . |
| 11 | It 's part of the school 's job to convince parents that they want what the school wants and values . |
| 12 | ‘ I want to make films that I want to go and see , and I do n't go to art-house movies . |
| 13 | And you know , so often you and I , we have questions that we want to bring to the Lord , if only was here in person , if only we could sit him down in the front room , how many things we would have to ask of him ! |