Example sentences of "[adv] want [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do all plasterboards secretly want to be a FERMACELL gypsum-fibreboard ? |
| 2 | Only 20 players can be named in the squad for the finals and Kernaghan said : ‘ I badly want to be part it if we get there . ’ |
| 3 | We mostly want to be left to get on with Afterwards . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh great , so that old fuck Jamieson was right and all women secretly want to be raped . ’ |
| 5 | I do so want to be pure in body and mind . |
| 6 | ‘ It caters for people who do n't necessarily want to be Cher . ’ |
| 7 | The details of it all were a little mundane to him and he did not necessarily want to be implicated in them . |
| 8 | I do n't much want to be a charge on charity if I can avoid it . " |
| 9 | ’ I do n't much want to be at home on my own . |
| 10 | There is a question of powerlessness , on the other hand there is the question that , you know , even if you 've got power do you constantly want to be having to police your own bodily boundaries , as it were , and I do n't think it is right to ask women to be doing that . |
| 11 | Poor darling , she only wants to be taken out . ’ |
| 12 | It only wants to be played on . |
| 13 | The hero of Simon Gray 's comedy Otherwise Engaged ( 1975 ) , in similar fashion , only wants to be left alone to play his new recording of Wagner 's Parsifal , but he is successively interrupted by neighbour , brother and wife , who succeed in disturbing him and fail only to interest him . |
| 14 | The business constituency not only wants to be as little burdened as possible with the costs of complying with regulation , it is also critical of what it sees as inordinate amounts of money being spent on pollution control by bloated , publicly-funded organizations . |
| 15 | ‘ Dana is n't really a man-eater ; she only wants to be happy . ’ |
| 16 | Death only wants to be life . |
| 17 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 18 | I only want to be with Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben . |
| 19 | I think we only want to be on the mainframe so that the divisions can access details in the middle of the night . |
| 20 | He 's only said these things , sort of , trying out to see because he does n't he does n't know if very much , oh it 's so sad Brenda , he said to me we were talking on Wednesday night , I think and he looked wistfully at me and he said I only want to be taught . |
| 21 | I only want to be taught . |
| 22 | I mean , deserving cases like Neil who as he says only want to be taught , get next to nothing , but it seems to me that people like your sister Jane and Trevor get given the earth . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've heard that I 'm the most unsavoury , unconscionable character that ever existed but people all want to be associated with me and sit with me , ’ he said . |
| 24 | So really when he well it obviously wants to be in the place where you want it . |
| 25 | ‘ I will , of course , be happy to go in a week or two 's time , but if it 's at all possible , I very much want to be in London in July . |
| 26 | Alida Thorne wiped away the tears with the back of her soft hand , only wanting to be taken to bed , like a child , and soothed , to have someone decide and make arrangements , tell her that all would be well , she should have her way . |
| 27 | At the same time she had fiercely wanted to be proud of Phoebe , to support Phoebe 's admirable fight on her behalf . |
| 28 | She had so much wanted to be fancied , it seemed a cruel blow to think that if it ever happened it might only be by someone as awful as Sean Walsh . |
| 29 | ‘ I very much wanted to be a character actress , to be able to lose myself in various parts . |
| 30 | She felt a frisson of gratitude at his thoughtfulness ; then , reminded absurdly of Ethel ( who had not so much wanted to be a bridesmaid , as to be asked ) : It is not that I look forward to it , she thought , if Frank was anything to go by , but at least I would expect to be , tonight , a little irresistible … |