Example sentences of "[pers pn] want [prep] [be] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to be as famous as Snoopy . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to be as good as them , the Pitts . |
| 3 | She wanted to be as mature and sensible as Rachel was , she wanted to be reassuring and maternal and all she could do was cling to Maggie and sob and sob . |
| 4 | His idea was that if you come on the scene and there was a right old set-to , you wanted to be as fit as you can to get into the set-to . |
| 5 | They want to be as certain of retaining India 's most idyllic coastline , as they are certain of continuing to have the sweetest melons , the most lyrical music , the loveliest women , and even the most perfectly shaped mangoes . |
| 6 | To say that a dog eats because it wants to is as uninformative as to say that dinosaurs got larger because they had an inner drive to do so . |
| 7 | Well I ca n't I mean erm I think he was the kind of person he wanted to be as diverse as possible later on , I mean , perhaps he felt constrained |