Example sentences of "[pers pn] want [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 'll make me want to be a Brownie even more ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 3 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 4 | M. It makes me want to be sick . |
| 5 | Both of them want to be close and both need to repair their inner confusion about what they can allow themselves . |
| 6 | ‘ What would I want to be in a stupid team for ? ’ |
| 7 | What I mean by setting goals is asking yourself ‘ What sort of person do I want to be ? ’ |
| 8 | Note that I said ‘ do I want to be ’ rather than ‘ would I like to be ’ as the latter allows for the possibility of failure . |
| 9 | ‘ Now why in the name of all Ireland would I want to be fighting ? ’ |
| 10 | Why did I want to be a policeman . |
| 11 | Do I want to be a dead hero or a living idiot ? |
| 12 | Nor do I want to be ruled by the code of Napoleon , against which our ancestors fought in the Napoleonic wars . ’ |
| 13 | Did I want to be brought down ? |
| 14 | Right , but what you 've got the opportunity of doing now during being a life assurance sales person , with self-employed status if you like , with the benefits of being in a company like ours , is really thinking where do I want to be in five years ' time . |
| 15 | Where do I want to be ? |
| 16 | Right , and er , the third point I want to is that , you , what you 're actually getting consist of two elements . |
| 17 | ‘ I know what it 's like in there and I 'm not sure it 's a place I want to be . ’ |
| 18 | I want to be In Love . |
| 19 | I want to be your lover . |
| 20 | I want to be honest . |
| 21 | ‘ I want to be the best ’ she explains proudly , ‘ it does n't matter how long it takes . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Margaret Thatcher shows that she is from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy : ‘ I want to be alone . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I want to be alone . ’ |
| 24 | Mr Chapman said : ‘ I have usually got on well with newspaper proprietors , but this time I want to be in charge . ’ |
| 25 | From the other side of the wafer-thin wall between Odeon One and Two comes the voice of The Jungle Book 's Baloo : ‘ I want to talk like you , walk like you , I want to be like you . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I want to be in your place ’ collapses temporarily into ‘ I want you ’ ; identification merges with desire , which is then a desire to be/displace the male as other . |
| 27 | I want to be a gardener . |
| 28 | But I want to be . |
| 29 | After a pause they thought would never end they heard , ‘ I want to be alone , ’ clear as a single bell note , free of all self-assertiveness . |
| 30 | I want to be a social worker so I could do something for these girls . ’ |