Example sentences of "not want [prep] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a very simple message here : if I were you Mr Chairman , I would not want to be a Labour priority . |
| 2 | Maggie did not want to be a crazy person . |
| 3 | When he was asked why he himself did not become one , he replied that all men wanted to be Senators but he did not ; he did not want to be the same as other men who were as the uncoloured cloth of the Toga but he wished to be the red , that small and brilliant portion which causes the rest to be comely and beautiful . |
| 4 | What we had n't bargained for was that she might not want to be the next Franz Klammer . |
| 5 | Fearing a more violent explosion of disagreement , pride in not wanting to be the first to make a move . |