Example sentences of "what [pron] wants " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's a man wivout pity an' 'e do n't care who 'e steps on ter get what 'e wants . |
| 2 | Essentially , what she wants is for Berowne to discover what is serious in life , and to stop fooling all the time . |
| 3 | MORE THAN two years after the word Cleveland became synonymous with child sexual abuse , Dr Marietta Higgs remains clear about what she wants to do - go back there , and in time go back to work dealing with child abuse there . |
| 4 | Joanna Kemp , also at Luton , is taking A-level music and English , and AS-level courses in psychology , music and drama , not because she knows what she wants to do , but because she does n't . |
| 5 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |
| 6 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |
| 7 | Denice has already decided she wants chicken , but is n't sure exactly what she wants done to it before it 's put on her plate . |
| 8 | Madonna definitely knows what she wants . ’ |
| 9 | If that 's what she wants to wear , fine . |
| 10 | This is what she wants and so perhaps it is what she needs . |
| 11 | ‘ Miss Harker only sees what she wants to . |
| 12 | She knows what she wants to do about almost everything . |
| 13 | Her sensitivity at all times to what will run in Cabinet is genuine , even though she always lets colleagues know what she wants at the outset of any discussion . |
| 14 | The decisive customer knows what she wants and goes straight to the counter to ask for the item she requires . |
| 15 | When she has finished , ask questions to help you find out more detail about what she wants . |
| 16 | Try to find out what she wants . |
| 17 | If a wife is going to be out all day and her husband refuses to help in the home , she may have to consider arranging or paying for help if she can afford to — in order to do what she wants to do . |
| 18 | I have n't seen her , as you know , since Daddy died , and I do n't know what she wants to do . ’ |
| 19 | You will realise that words of comfort like this can solve no problems for her ; they can do no more than bathe the wound she has sustained , but she will be badly in need of something to cling on to and because they are spoken by someone who loves her they may be exactly what she wants to hear when she is trying to reassemble herself and face the future . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll know what she wants you to know and no more . |
| 21 | Here 's another : an Arts Council-funded photographic project called What She Wants ( with a grant of £14,000 , half the sum requested ) is inviting women to submit intimate pictures of men , and a report of the session that produced them ( ‘ Did he let you do everything you wanted ? ’ ) . |
| 22 | For example , ‘ work from a specifically feminist perspective ’ — such as What She Wants — merits support ; ditto black arts ( still without an adequate definition in Arts Council-speak ) and arts for and by disabled people . |
| 23 | ‘ Every single deaf woman is different , with different perceptions about what she wants while pregnant . |
| 24 | That is what she wants to tell you . ’ |
| 25 | Her determination to succeed and getting what she wants out of her career and life makes her a laudable influence . |
| 26 | At the euphoric level of the disease , the anorexic perceives only what she wants ( needs ) to perceive . |
| 27 | Mr Gaff , who managed Britt 's former lover Rod Stewart , added : ‘ She knows that she is welcome to move in with me if that 's what she wants . ’ |
| 28 | It 's just that I do n't have the same taste as she does and she always wants me to have what she wants . |
| 29 | ‘ She 's got brains enough to know what she wants . ’ |
| 30 | Does she dive straight to the point or does she circle around , feeling for what she wants to say ? |