Example sentences of "[pers pn] want [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want my successor to be known while I am alive , ’ he explained . |
| 2 | I want you put it on because I want my voice to be on it . |
| 3 | I want my voice to be in there . |
| 4 | As he said : ‘ If I 'm deciding on whom I want to live with for fifty years — well , that 's the last decision I want my head to be ruled by my heart . ’ |
| 5 | I want my position to be clear . |
| 6 | Ala I want my writing to be is modest , restrained , colourful , truthful … . |
| 7 | And then I want my shaft to be as long as a furlong and time to stand still and my tongue to be dipped in honey . |
| 8 | ‘ I wanted my Leda to be a little girl . |
| 9 | I wanted your poetry to be better , wanted to show you the way into a wider perspective of words and feelings . |
| 10 | DO YOU want your wardrobe to be practical and hard-wearing — or darkly sensual and sexy ? |
| 11 | She says the improvement is magnificent , she wants her son to be as independant as possible . |
| 12 | She wants her lover to be King of Scotland ! ’ |
| 13 | You 've bought your new home , and no doubt that has meant new carpets or new curtains or maybe a new fitted kitchen because you want your home to be comfortable . |
| 14 | Use a strip of knitting as long as you want for your finished garland , sewn as you go so that you have a covered cone , about six inches of knitting unsewn , another cone — as long as long as you want your garland to be . |
| 15 | For example , if you realise that you want your presentation to be on a different medium then you can do so — and see at a glance the effect of changing the underlying presentation style . |
| 16 | If you want your child to be kind , let him know how pleased you are when he shares sweets or acknowledge her deed when she comforts a younger child who is crying . |
| 17 | The doctor and midwife may start getting to know you and your wishes about pregnancy right from the first visit , by talking over your plans for antenatal care , where you want your baby to be born , how you plan to feed the baby , and so on . |
| 18 | If it 's of equal , or greater , importance than the material it goes with , you want your image to be of the highest quality and you 're prepared to spend the time to achieve something a bit special . |
| 19 | You want your audience to be active , not passive . |
| 20 | You have to decide how much dialect will go into your writing and to do this you must be sure of your subject and of how wide you want your audience to be . |
| 21 | It was : ‘ If you want my will to be done , it requires you to actually do something ( which takes time and effort ) not just to sit back and expect it to happen ’ . |
| 22 | She wanted her daughter to be a marchioness , maintaining that there was nothing wrong with Virginia which marriage would n't cure . |
| 23 | In the same speech she said that she wanted her government to be remembered as one ‘ which decisively broke with a debilitating consensus of a paternalistic Government and a dependent people ; which rejected the notion that the State is all powerful and the citizen is merely its beneficiary ; which shattered the illusion that Government could somehow substitute for individual performance ’ . |
| 24 | She once put a jar in the middle of the table , in the light , and said she wanted her heroine to be like that ; her novels create just such memorable images , not static , but still , like remembered paintings . |
| 25 | The most crucial aspect is whether we want our currency to be locked into a stable currency in Europe or whether we want to be able to devalue our currency in the hope of averting unemployment . |
| 26 | I want er , I 'm just asking if er , anyone 's got er , comments to make to Vince and then Vince will reply to them , that 's the point , he 's got to reply to some of the comments er , that er Simon has made and then we 'll come to what we want our response to be . |
| 27 | We want our outlook to be confirmed as the right one . |
| 28 | ‘ We want our software to be widely available to anyone that wants it — a lot of people pick and choose the bits they want ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ This above all we share : we want our nation to be strong ’ — more cheering — ‘ and proud … ’ |
| 30 | However , when we want our speech to be candid , natural , and expressive , we discard the usual polite etiquette and call things by their real names . |