Example sentences of "[pron] want be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I want is evolution . |
| 2 | Or : ‘ What I want is paper with narrow lines , |
| 3 | All I want is silence , and to go back to my father 's house . ’ |
| 4 | it 's all I want is attention |
| 5 | Only she does n't care much for things or what she eats , what she wants are people , action . |
| 6 | People also seem to get this impression that if you 're released from prison the first thing you want is sex . |
| 7 | It 's going to be a very emotional day and the last thing you want is panda eyes ! |
| 8 | All you want is revenge . |
| 9 | All you want Is Life for |
| 10 | All you want is vengeance . |
| 11 | What she wanted was permission to cease . |
| 12 | If only people would realize that all she wanted was freedom : freedom to think and act for herself , freedom to let life happen to her , instead of having to shape it to her parent 's expectations . |
| 13 | Even in the cases where what we want are things which exist in the ordinary way , these things are not to be identified with the mentioned objects . |
| 14 | What we want is peace with security . " |
| 15 | Now I I remember talking to him for hours once on a programme about education and this was when he first said what we want is teachers to be accountable . |
| 16 | I 'm shopping as well all we want is cat food do you wan na go to pet shop or butchers along so |
| 17 | Surely if all we want is prints off existing things all you need do is a request with a DOPACS number ? |
| 18 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 19 | All we wanted was proof that John was alive and to know why he was being held , but government policy was so rigid that there could be no contact , no discussions . |
| 20 | What they want is money — £140,000 — which would cover the annual cost of running the scheme . |
| 21 | Now if you 've got somebody who you are protecting their family , and they 'll be paying that plan twenty five years or more , the fact that they pay commissions out for the first four years is immaterial , what they want is peace of mind and protection . |
| 22 | All they want is survival and a fair deal . |
| 23 | What they want is certainty . |
| 24 | What they want is business , not as an exclusive right but as a first option . |
| 25 | They have many gifts and all they want is people to encourage them . |
| 26 | The man they want is Nottingham Forest 's dynamic Irishman Roy Keane . |
| 27 | No one could blame them if all they felt was rage and all they wanted was revenge . |
| 28 | One day the electorate chooses a government to exterminate the Jews : the next day decides on one to take it down the Marxist-Leninist road : the next that all it wants is dishwashers and CD players . |
| 29 | In Selfoss the assistant in the chemist 's tries to sell us surgical spirit when we ask for meths and there is a pantomime while Tony explains to her , in best sign language , that what he wants is spirit for a Trangia . |
| 30 | The prefect was more concerned that we and everyone should keep quiet about Daniel having been here ; the last thing he wants is word to get out that a wanted renegade came and went on his demesne without hindrance . |