Example sentences of "[adv] wanted [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She merely wanted to be whisked from luxury hotel to draught-free concert hall in a big limousine , there to play to an attentive , elegant audience and be driven away again surrounded by encores and orchids . |
| 2 | We 'd end up with 350 MPs who all wanted to be prime minister . |
| 3 | He had n't yet been appointed as Home Office Pathologist in succession to old Dr. Stoddard and he very much wanted to be . |
| 4 | Since the man was in this incapable state most afternoons , the head rightly wanted to be rid of him . |
| 5 | " Keep still if you can , poor old chap , " said Acorn , who obviously wanted to be overheard . |
| 6 | She very obviously wanted to be left alone . |
| 7 | I only wanted to be kind to the Dust Baby . |
| 8 | ‘ When I went to old Abuelo Freitas , Maria told me that you sometimes worried too much about him — that you did n't understand that he only wanted to be left alone . |
| 9 | North seems to have intimated and exaggerated and hinted because , although he was engaged in secrets , he desperately wanted to be noticed ; and part of him , too , needed rescuing . |
| 10 | I desperately wanted to be out there with the sheep , hiding behind boulders and sprinting through the heather . |
| 11 | Another group , ‘ Gentling Brünnhildes ’ , aggressive , masculine women , had strong competitive feelings towards men , but at another level desperately wanted to be overpowered and mastered by Brünnhilde , it will be remembered , was eventually mastered by Siegfried . |
| 12 | Such clues would add to the embarrassing riches of intelligence which had recently flooded in to Napoleon 's headquarters from Belgians who desperately wanted to be part of France again . |
| 13 | I desperately wanted to be accepted by Estella . |
| 14 | Because on this occasion the fame seemed such a foregone conclusion , there was less talk than usual about its progress , which was a disappointment to those on our side who desperately wanted to be able to display modesty about their achievements . |
| 15 | She just wanted to be free of the burden of her own special powers . |
| 16 | I just wanted to be a poet . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ They just wanted to be seen as loyal citizens . ’ |
| 18 | No , he did n't really fancy her , he just wanted to be praised and feel top of the class and get a little attention . |
| 19 | ‘ Yeah , ’ said somebody drunk who just wanted to be nasty , ‘ you tell her . |
| 20 | I just wanted to come to you , to make a little space around you , I do n't want to discuss anything , I do n't want to do anything , I wo n't say anything , I just wanted to be there , I mean here . ’ |
| 21 | You see sometimes Boy , like all of us , sometimes Boy just wanted to be taken care of without having done anything to deserve it . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't want to be a superstar , I just wanted to be able to play well . |
| 23 | At the time I just wanted to be left alone , but now I 'm glad he pressured me into doing more talks . |
| 24 | I just wanted to be private , to be able to choose whom I talked to , let alone where and when . |
| 25 | Aubrey was probably right — she just wanted to be able to number him among her many admirers . |
| 26 | I just wanted to be sure you understood our house rules . |
| 27 | I just wanted to be with you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I just wanted to be sure you had an alibi . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I just wanted to be sure … |