Example sentences of "she [adv] [verb] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dana is n't really a man-eater ; she only wants to be happy . ’ |
| 2 | Paula was not very clever with her needle but she soon learned to be careful so as not to incur the wrath of the seamstress . |
| 3 | Aubrey was probably right — she just wanted to be able to number him among her many admirers . |
| 4 | She just wanted to be free of the burden of her own special powers . |
| 5 | And suddenly she just wanted to be clean . |
| 6 | ‘ She just wants to be alone with her boys to try to forget the separation traumas . |
| 7 | and this Molly she always had to be different |
| 8 | David said in an interview : ‘ She always wanted to be famous , always saying ‘ I want to be a star ’ . |
| 9 | What was this spell he was casting — and how could she ever hope to be free of it ? |
| 10 | Coleen listened to his amorous overtures of love never doubting his sincerity , but she still wanted to be sure and she tried to gently tell him so ; she had to be sure before she said ‘ yes ’ . |
| 11 | But he or she still seems to be unencumbered by , for example , the class , gender or ethnic relations which are of course socially constructed . |
| 12 | If a constable reasonably suspects that an arrestable offence has been committed , he or she may detain anyone whom he or she reasonably suspects to be guilty of it . |
| 13 | She had no gift for academic work ; she simply longed to be able to dedicate her life to it . |
| 14 | Because , she said , she simply wanted to be honest . |
| 15 | But the vista that opened before them was so fantastic that for a few moments she almost forgot to be afraid . |
| 16 | During her too short life she never ceased to be Anglican ; but she was a Socialist , and a suffragette , and religion for her came to mean , not so much creed or piety , as having a lively social conscience . |
| 17 | Once off the island of Majorca she never wanted to be involved with it again . |
| 18 | Is she actually trying to be disagreeable or is she merely unhappy ? ’ |
| 19 | Everything about her and about her marriage seemed to be perfect , apart from one disquieting fact : she hated going into churches and she absolutely refused to be present at the consecration of the Host . |