Example sentences of "they want [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do n't mind if they play , but a lot of them want 's it , watch it on , watch cricket . |
| 2 | No , what they want is perfectly expressed in the simple banner held up during the Leipzig demonstrations : ‘ Freiheit ! ! ! ’ |
| 3 | A supporter said yesterday : ‘ What they want is to have somebody they can control , ’ but Mr Field found it impossible to operate on that basis . |
| 4 | What they want is a job . ’ |
| 5 | What they want is business , not as an exclusive right but as a first option . |
| 6 | All they want is to get their unemployment figures down ’ . |
| 7 | All they want is survival and a fair deal . |
| 8 | All they want is to read Ellen 's endless journal once our friend in there has actually managed to bring it to the light of day . |
| 9 | All over the world ordinary people are marching , demonstrating , making their voices heard , letting the people in power know that what they want is a peaceful world for themselves and their children . |
| 10 | I do n't want readers getting the wrong idea about this letter , but the compulsion to write came on seeing people like Jeff Young , who thinks I Should Be So Lucky is a good song ( well , it probably is , if you 're 10 years old ) ; Norman Jay , who does n't want bands to get in touch if all they want is a record deal ; Mick Clarke , who ‘ wants people to tell him what he 's listening to is good ’ , then only signs people he likes , etc . |
| 11 | For so many old people the only Christmas gift they want is our presence and not our presents . |
| 12 | The man they want is Nottingham Forest 's dynamic Irishman Roy Keane . |
| 13 | What they want is a quick response facility to deal with emerging issues , and if the IASC is not prepared to do it , they will take it on themselves . |
| 14 | Now that I 'm famous , whenever I speak to my family , all they want is a signed photo for Enid or Ethel or someone at the office . |
| 15 | With our long history , with our traditions , what they have decided they want is a constitutional monarchy . |
| 16 | In practice agents do not , or even perhaps could not , have complete and consistent preferences , partly because what they want is often affected by what they believe , and they do not , or could not , have perfect information . |
| 17 | They lose their teeth and hair , they forget the names of their families , and the only thing they want is to die . |
| 18 | All they want is this bloody letter and we 're going to give it to them . |
| 19 | They knew I was catching the plane ; they came running in from all over the place with their big zoom lenses and what they want is : the butterfly 's wings are broken , so let's get a picture of her face . |
| 20 | What they want is certainty . |
| 21 | What they want is a change in the structure of society much more radical than political adjustment . |
| 22 | Managers , too , require information , though what they want is a summary of the position on each vacancy , rather than the details of the applicants within it . |
| 23 | What they want is money — £140,000 — which would cover the annual cost of running the scheme . |
| 24 | ’ Most of the guys are quite tiddled , and when you 're on the screen all they want is to get their hands in your knickers and pinch your bum . |
| 25 | What in fact they want is to find out the basis upon which the plaintiff is making the claim , to tie the plaintiff down to a particular set of allegations before the engineer goes in . |
| 26 | What they want is a league table of young children , those that pass and those that fail . |
| 27 | All they want is |
| 28 | Now if you 've got somebody who you are protecting their family , and they 'll be paying that plan twenty five years or more , the fact that they pay commissions out for the first four years is immaterial , what they want is peace of mind and protection . |
| 29 | Maybe Brian but what they want is initial contact point for somebody . |
| 30 | what they want is a regional dialect as well . |