Example sentences of "he wants [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout , Patrick is both the ‘ King of the World ’ that he wants to be — Glasgow belongs to him — and an abject sinner . |
| 2 | He rubs it absently , accosting strangers in the street , seeking out a friend and within minutes exclaiming that he wants to be by himself , watching children wistfully , accusing wellwishers of persecuting him with their kindness ; until at last he explodes on the brink of confession in a terrible universal cry : ‘ Oh , if only I were alone and nobody loved me , and if only I had never loved anyone ! ’ |
| 3 | He wants to be the real power there , rather than a minority , ’ the aide said . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's there for as long as he wants to be , ’ said Eaton . |
| 5 | He wants to be all you could ever need . |
| 6 | Unless , that is , he wants to be branded as the man who brought double-digit inflation back to Britain . |
| 7 | He wants to be friends with America because he thinks only American intervention will secure his aims ( he offered in the Gulf war to send 200,000 Sikhs to fight on the American side ) . |
| 8 | In fact — he wants to leave school after O-levels. £6,000 a year down the drain ! ’ rather a loud voice ) ‘ If he wants to be a sheep farmer in Australia ? |
| 9 | And Mr Brown has to have his straight off , no hanging about , because he wants to be an engineer , so he goes to night school . |
| 10 | ‘ Poor kid , he wants to be off with the Star Eye wenches , sowing overdue wild oats and learning about life . |
| 11 | The last thing he wants to be bothered with is having to deal with complaints from dissatisfied guests . ’ |
| 12 | He wants to be settled somewhere quiet . ’ |
| 13 | He wants to be me . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Do you think he wants to be Brown Owl 's sweetheart ? ’ |
| 15 | He wants to be Northern Ireland secretary . |
| 16 | Although his head and body are bent towards her in paternal concern , their tension indicates that he wants to be elsewhere ; away from hysterical females , generally , and , in particular , at his lunchdate with the Chinese antique dealer who has hinted over the telephone that he has some particularly fine pieces of Ban Chieng that the National Museum will never see hidden away in his back room . |
| 17 | In the same way , you need to know if he wants to be Prime Minister — would you be happy being a high-flier 's wife , with all the pressures that can bring ? |
| 18 | He considers taking an early flight because it is the quickest , doubts whether it will give him time to prepare and settles for the quickest later flight ; he wants to be bothered with as few suitcases as possible , starts packing the biggest he has , finds the lock broken and chooses another . |
| 19 | ‘ He has not had a good season with injury and must be a bit depressed — he wants to be playing . |
| 20 | The 25-year-old played for Holland in the World Cup win in Turkey on Wednesday and Keegan said : ‘ He 's a Newcastle-type player — comfy on the ball , a football brain and he wants to be a winner . |
| 21 | He 's a poet , and he wants to be a star . |
| 22 | He wants to be taken seriously . |
| 23 | His mum Pam , 37 , said : ‘ He says he wants to be like Nigel Mansell and win the world championship . ’ |
| 24 | He wants to be no.10 , but it seems Newport and Bridgend suggested 12 . |
| 25 | He wants to be remembered for more that his ‘ Pits of the Earth ’ and ‘ You can not be series ’ outbursts . |
| 26 | And no one is stuck with it unless he wants to be . |
| 27 | At this meeting he presented the draft of a new constitution , which he wants to be adopted by a constituent assembly in June . |
| 28 | The message for Mr Major : unless he wants to be prisoner to such as these , he should plan to go to the polls by April 1996 at the latest . |
| 29 | In the same way , the Poet tells his Mistress , There , curiously enough , although the Mistress is pursuing the Friend , the Poet is pursuing the Mistress , not the Friend ; he wants to be kissed and consoled by her . |
| 30 | He wants to be left alone to get on with the job , including completing Knowsley 's ‘ positive futures ’ programme to develop a direct services system for supporting those in need living in the community . |