Example sentences of "they want [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want to arrange their own lunches , decide for themselves how to spend some days . |
| 2 | You send it round , what they want training on and it comes back to the manager |
| 3 | I think , I think yes , I think the consensus is that we hold it on Friday the ninth erm and we 're going to apply , the three full time officers will apply for those in their organization that they want to attend , apply for paid release . |
| 4 | It has to be a serious process of thought and research , both about the candidate 's own interests and motivation , and about the type of course and institution which they want to attend . |
| 5 | And I would urge all intending applicants to give very serious thought to what sort of person they are , to what their real academics interests are , and to what sort of institution they want to attend , and to recognise at the outset that that can not be gleaned from any one compendium or any one adviser . |
| 6 | The trouble with Labour-supporting celebrities is that very largely they want to pronounce . |
| 7 | If they want to watch television , they do that ; if they want to walk around , they walk around , some do their own thing like reading or games . |
| 8 | Researchers rarely conduct research with a finished model of the causal process they want to test in mind . |
| 9 | Typically , teachers ask questions not because they do not know the answers , but because they want to test their pupils ' knowledge . |
| 10 | Managers might not borrow as much as they should , on paper , if they want to retain a large reserve of borrowing power in case of problems . |
| 11 | ‘ They want to retain the character of the building , ’ says Nick Wood . |
| 12 | They want to retain their place of refuge should war break out again . |
| 13 | The queen has graciously consented to open her London house to the public for two months every summer , and they want to sample royal glasnost before the offer expires , at the end of 1997 . |
| 14 | THE thousands of Welsh supporters who have been pouring into the Edinburgh area for the past two days are well catered for if they want to sample club rugby before tomorrow 's Royal Bank international , writes Harry Pincott . |
| 15 | ‘ These big international companies recognise borders only when they want to use them to set one workforce against another , ’ says one . |
| 16 | The cost of weapons often means they are in potentially short supply , all the more so because once commanders find that a weapon works , they want to use it for everything . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , incidentally Mark , I understand they want to use your office and mine for a couple of visiting Americans on assignment over here for a couple of months . |
| 18 | They want to use less fuel and cause less pollution , but at the same time recoil from too many sacrifices in terms of comfort and performance . |
| 19 | Participants might then address themselves as to why and how they want to use videos , and what they are trying to do ; make an explanatory film of the group , document important meetings , preserve visual and oral material for community archives etc . |
| 20 | They want to use Belpan as a staging post . ’ |
| 21 | David Fullerton , of the Sierra Club , an environmental lobby group , says : ‘ They want to use new technology or more water while we want them to talk about the crops they 're growing . ’ |
| 22 | This takes on an added significance when it is remembered that geriatrics and the terminally ill are regarded as the failures of the health service and are often consigned to the young and inexperienced who , as one doctor recently put it , ‘ do strive very officiously to keep people alive because they are interested scientifically and they want to use every method they can as part of their training ’ . |
| 23 | They want to use condoms — nine out of 10 agreed it was sensible to carry condoms ‘ just in case ’ — but half those surveyed said they would be to embarrassed to buy them . |
| 24 | Now they want to use them at home . |
| 25 | When we say when we say that that we stage door club is closed it closed in the place it 's not open every evening but we do actually let it out we let it out to companies and whatever conference or companies who want a facility or meeting place something we do actually market that and we do actually ask people if they want to use it and in fact it has been taken up there . |
| 26 | People who come on a timber frame construction course , for instance , will come along because they want to use the technique , perhaps for an extension to their home . |
| 27 | Sessions may be timetabled on a regular basis — once a fortnight or once every five lessons , say — or it may be left to teachers to request the room when they want to use video . |
| 28 | What so we 're leaving it to people to decide whether they want to use it ? |
| 29 | In case they want to use you undercover . ’ |
| 30 | that they want to use and operate and to reap any benefits that they require . |