Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] be [prep] be " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ What I want is to be in charge of myself , to decide what I will or will not do . ’ |
2 | What I need is to be alone . ’ |
3 | What you want is to be able to answer a few sensible questions uniquely identifying you , the trouble is there 's probably a repertoire of only ten of those questions , you 're going to get asked three or four of them , but those questions , your date of birth , your telephone number , the er address of your bank and so on and so forth , if you 're a private detective you can get those , you can have them on a sheet of paper and you can pretend to be whoever you like . |
4 | What we want is to be working here . |
5 | What he wanted was to be as dirty as the miners , covered in coal-dust like them . |