Example sentences of "wanted [prep] [be] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wanted to be nearer home and there were n't any vacancies in the local hospitals at that particular time . |
| 2 | He was silent for a moment , then he said , ‘ But you wanted to be nearer to your home ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , I wanted to be nearer home to be able to give my parents a hand with Jennifer . |
| 4 | And oh , she inwardly sighed , and wanted to be nearer to him . |
| 5 | They all wanted to be mightier than the mightiest waves . |
| 6 | She wanted to be closer still . |
| 7 | His study , to be presented to the British Psychological Society 's annual conference in Scarborough today , found that one in three girls wanted to be thinner , even though many of them were not overweight . |
| 8 | He found one in three of the girls and one in five of the boys wanted to be thinner . |
| 9 | A small proportion of the boys — seven per cent — wanted to be fatter , but ‘ it would seem their desire to be heavier was not for fatness but for a more athletic and muscular build ’ . |