Example sentences of "[adv] want [pron] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the rest of our family insisted because we did not want him to be endangered . |
| 2 | I did not want him to be alone with Otto . |
| 3 | Silas would not want me to be in a room where somebody such as yourself could have an ear pressed to the wall . |
| 4 | Salah did not need to persuade himself ; and his Egyptian teacher was also anxious that his daughter should continue — — but he did not want her to be the only one . |
| 5 | Similarly Mr. Pope , who was looking after his wife , said he did not want her to be anywhere else but at home : |
| 6 | I also told her that there was no guarantee that she would come up with the answer the first time she was regressed , as this would be a new experience for her and her ever-protective subconscious would not want her to be upset in any way . |
| 7 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
| 8 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
| 9 | We do not want them to be upset , so we keep them away from funerals , or from saying goodbye , face to face , to their relatives and friends . |
| 10 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 11 | They did not want it to be too obvious , since observing the search would provide them with great amusement . |
| 12 | He is looking for an easy rapport , but he does not want it to be too easy . |
| 13 | I think it 's I 'm not convinced about it because I think there 's s some people would , do n't , will not want it to be , to be involved in violence I , I would n't think . |
| 14 | She does not want you to be tried by the government . ’ |
| 15 | I DO not want us to be a little England , impoverished , devoid of influence , sour in isolation , languishing either on the sidelines of Europe or of history . |
| 16 | You ca n't feel benevolent and sympathetic , you ca n't just want everything to be nice , as if Jack were a child , and as if I were a child . |
| 17 | I had assumed he would still want me to be his wife , and wondered why he did not ask me . |
| 18 | Even if I did not like you very much , I should still want you to be manageress of the Maison de Verveine in London . |
| 19 | Do you honestly want me to be your wife ? ’ |
| 20 | People say : ‘ Students are by definition idealistic and impatient — would Mugabe really want them to be any different ? |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't want the students to be ’ , she recalls , ‘ I did n't really want anybody to be , and I certainly did n't think students had any right to be . |
| 22 | Was it possible Paula was still alive — and did she even want her to be ? |
| 23 | So then Berndt and the old witch will know I 'm as smart as they do n't want me to be , AND that I 've been poking around in high-security files . |
| 24 | The police did n't want me to be sentenced , which I was stunned about . |
| 25 | ‘ You did n't want me to be hurt ? |
| 26 | ‘ You would n't want me to be vain . |
| 27 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 28 | I do n't want him to be unhappy and have a breakdown . |
| 29 | I did n't want him to be too uptight or tense , so I kept the jokes coming . |
| 30 | ‘ We do n't want him to be compromised . ’ |