Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] want to be " in BNC.

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61 In literature , music , the cinema ( at least in Europe ) and painting , works of art are more cerebral than ever , more difficult , more inaccessible , less penetrable , not just by the masses whose interests are so patronisingly espoused by politicians but also ( even though they dare not always admit it ) by those who really want to be involved .
62 If you really want to be energetic , there 's windsurfing and waterskiing here or you can stroll along the beach to where they still make wooden Turkish boats by hand .
63 Do n't lose your balance and have a tantrum but face the situation and see if you really want to be drawn into it .
64 If you really want to be devious , you could spend the money on a particle accelerator .
65 So if you really want to be kind , that 's what you 'll let me do . ’
66 Areas can be painted in or you can edit the Attribute screen on a pixel by pixel basis — in magnified mode if you really want to be accurate .
67 If you really want to be part of our ménage you 'll have to accept that . ’
68 So does this mean you actually want to be in control of it yourself er or not ?
69 We mostly want to be left to get on with Afterwards .
70 I think we only want to be on the mainframe so that the divisions can access details in the middle of the night .
71 We just want to be alone
72 We just want to be sure everything is hunky-dory . ’
73 And , a a I mean I think we have , you know , to be feminists because we do n't want to be better than men , we just want to be equal .
74 We just want to be left alone . ’
75 We now want to be thinking about , oh , let me show you the er , I nearly forgot .
76 Perhaps when his desk collapsed through sheer weight of mail he finally will realise that we simply want to be left for 60 minutes an hour in our blinkered little world of leather and willow .
77 They just want to be seen calling at the house . ’
78 Everyone wants to be somebody here and , once they are , they usually want to be somebody else .
79 but of course when religious orders come in they usually want to be in the inner city and , and would n't exactly qualify
80 They 're still completely wild , but then they also want to be remembered as a damned good band and not just as part of a mad drugs scene . ’
81 The thing about the Neighbourhood Watch is that everyone in the area is a member whether they really want to be one or not to be honest .
82 And this is , it is true for some p , it 's true for a lot of people , that they really want to be challenged .
83 Opinion polls have revealed that , while Americans are reluctant to pay more for energy , they dearly want to be less reliant on imports from the Gulf .
84 The parent may either emulate this approach or completely refute it and feel that they never want to be like their parents .
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