Example sentences of "[pers pn] wanted [prep] be free " in BNC.
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| 1 | Designing clothes for Carnega was all very well and I made a good living at it I wo n't deny but I wanted to be free to do my own thing — and to have my own name on the labels . |
| 2 | Well I 'm freer to do , I mean I , I got , I wanted to be free because I was getting tied up with that and I was getting tied up with persons , but not agreeing everything |
| 3 | ‘ There was a night a few weeks past , when I was ill , when my spirit left my body and I wanted to be free for ever . |
| 4 | She said she wanted to be free , to finish her training , she was afraid of being tied down . |
| 5 | She wanted to be free to do her own thing — be independent — get a job , perhaps . |
| 6 | He wanted to be free . |
| 7 | He wanted to be free — of all constraints , all material imperatives , of all the forces hunting him and the opportunities drawing him on . |
| 8 | They seemed in total harmony , but then one of them wanted to be free . |