Example sentences of "do what [pers pn] want [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So as I can get done what we want to do . |
| 2 | This was no doubt very wicked of them , but I bear them no animosity at all : I had done what I wanted to do , which was to obtain a glimpse of the Caucasus from the most easternly town of any size in Turkey . |
| 3 | Referring the problem back does not allow the counsellor to fall into a trap , for most people will normally do what they want to do , regardless of the best-intentioned advice . |
| 4 | Well actually , the function of the youth bus is like in the absence of buildings in , in area 's where people want to go , it 's fulfilling that function , on the bus there are things like videos , people can play music , they also get erm , you know , we do n't just let them do what they want to do , although were , you know , where quite erm , quite progressive with them , we actually provide , we have information on the the bus , provide information , we 've got a Coun we involve local Councillor 's like on Aids and stuff like that , I mean you have to be quite sensitive when you do something like that , you know especially if , you know , with the age group , erm , but erm , you know you get younger people coming on , twelve year olds to thirteen year old and what not . |
| 5 | erm , I I let the person do what they wanted to do and not what I wanted to do I just went along with what they said |
| 6 | if you did n't do what they wanted to do they did , they did you in , they sent you to Belsen |
| 7 | And that means that from then on your life is n't your own , you do n't do what you want to do , you do what you believe God is telling you to do and you try to live by what the bible says and you pray about any important decision you make and then , when God has shown you what the right thing is to do , even when you 're going through very hard times , you know that you 're there because that 's where God wants you to be and that gives you faith to carry on . |
| 8 | So Kennedy could n't act precipitantly , he could n't simply do what he wanted to do which was to get rid of Castro , because if he 'd done that then his policy objectives in other parts of the world would be in jeopardy . |
| 9 | So Kennedy could n't act precipitantly , he could n't simply do what he wanted to do which was to get rid of Castro , because if he 'd done that then his policy objectives in other parts of the world would be in jeopardy . |
| 10 | Leave him do n't , let him do what he wants to do |
| 11 | Right at the beginning someone said they were enjoying life at the moment because they were able to do what they wanted to do in Scotland . |
| 12 | Erm it may have been deliberate in that how the Par Party could n't be seen as too radical in order to maintain er as broad a support as possible and allow the peasants to erm give them leeway to do what they wanted to do , but erm it 's quite interesting though that whatever the Communist Party did , people were going to respond in which ever way they wanted to whether or not there was a law there , but they still had to sort of erm establish their legitimacy . |
| 13 | There are days when some of our residents are quite determined that you are going to enable them to do what they want to do , even though what they want to do is completely ridiculous , like going out in the rain without a coat on . |
| 14 | Men are taught from their earliest days to value autonomy , the right to do what they want to do , when they want to do it . |
| 15 | That 's that 's part of , of presumably , one of the objections from the U K Government , erm , that essentially , it 's saying that that these arguments ca n't be , justified on health and safety grounds and that that the approach , de-regulation and freedom in the market to al allow people to do what they want to do , which is the fact that they , if they want to work twelve hours , then presumably the Government and yourself are supporting that that freedom . |
| 16 | ‘ I was n't walking around saying , ‘ Oh I do n't have enough money to do what I want to do ‘ cause I do n't have commercial support for my work . ’ |
| 17 | I have always enjoyed holidays alone because they allow me to do what I want to do and not what someone else wants to do . |
| 18 | He wanted ‘ to do what I want to do whenever I can ’ . |
| 19 | Well one of the obvious pluses is that I 'll have a chance to do what I want to do when I want to do it . |
| 20 | When Debré protested that the people would not understand his departure , de Gaulle replied : " I will not be able to do what I want to do , it is too late … |
| 21 | If I am bored then I have not found the way to do what I wanted to do . |
| 22 | I was always allowed to do what I wanted to do . ’ |
| 23 | I was having a nervous breakdown and I had to decide whether I was going to spend the rest of my life hiding under a bed , or whether I was going to do what I wanted to do . ’ |
| 24 | Willy let the dog out to do what it wants to do . |
| 25 | Everything seemed to be taken care of and everybody was on a real high because it left you free to do what you wanted to do without worrying about paying this week 's rent or buying a pair of shoes , or whether a valve in the amplifier had gone and you had to replace it . |
| 26 | The ‘ when … then ’ rule — sometimes referred to as ‘ Grandma 's rule ’ — states that ‘ First you work , then you play ’ or ‘ You do what I want you to do before you are allowed to do what you want to do ’ . |
| 27 | Get one , O nine , I mean providing you 've got enough to do what you want to do in mohair |
| 28 | According to Godfrey Hodgson : ‘ Never has so powerful a leader been so impotent to do what he wants to do , what he is pledged to do , what he is expected to do , and what he knows he must do ’ . |
| 29 | This produced , even despite that , two hundred and thirteen thousand two hundred pounds of underspending in ninety-three four on just general expenses , on operational expenses , now I think if , if the Chief Constable says he has n't got enough money to do what he wants to do , he could start by spending all of the money he 's had this year , in recruiting all the officers he 's been allowed to recruit . |
| 30 | that , and , and , I mean it 's probably better for George to do what he wants to do , rather to do what he do n't want to do because we used to be in the same predicament when we were doing cabaret , we 'd go down to London on the Saturday , we 'd leave here what about half three , four o'clock , so if we stayed in digs , we 'd be finished work say midnight , we 'd be back in digs for one , then he 'll go up till seven the next night |