Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] wanted [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I feel fine and in any case I wanted to be here in person and not have to watch you on television . |
| 2 | ‘ When I was a girl I wanted to be an actress . |
| 3 | ‘ My friend , no wonder you wanted to be alone this afternoon . |
| 4 | like I once read a book where this girl she wanted to be a doctor and they brought her to a nursery for work experience |
| 5 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |
| 6 | Mad though it was , at that moment she wanted to be a part of him . |
| 7 | In that moment of truth she wanted to be struck by lightning and reduced to smouldering ashes . |
| 8 | The last place he wanted to be was in the car . |
| 9 | ‘ Brian Clough made the lad a terrific offer but there was only one place he wanted to be , and that was Old Trafford . |
| 10 | " In that case I 'll accompany you , " he said abruptly , and offered her his arm like the gentleman he wanted to be , so that the women and old men who sat at their doorways in West Street stared in amazement at the unprecedented sight of Harry Pascoe on an errand of mercy with his wife . |
| 11 | Well I ca n't I mean erm I think he was the kind of person he wanted to be as diverse as possible later on , I mean , perhaps he felt constrained |
| 12 | and well I 've , I 've had a sort of split feeling I wanted to be here |
| 13 | He was the man she wanted to be with for the rest of her life and she was willing to jump through any hoop and over any hurdle to win him . |
| 14 | She felt hung over , and a million miles from the bed she wanted to be asleep in . |
| 15 | He loved her , but his love , the love he wanted to be their love seemed stalled , stuck at some early stage , as though hibernating until the winter had passed . |
| 16 | ‘ I was under pressure from my grandfather to become a teacher and that 's the last thing I wanted to be . |
| 17 | And that 's when my life changed , that 's when I was let into the world I wanted to be in and got paid to do something creative , which I 'd always wanted to do . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ An example : the Dalek city I wanted to be a complex structure of low metal towers , ramps and spires , quite detailed , possibly with some kind of perimeter wall or fence surrounding it . |
| 19 | That was the reason she wanted to be alone with the visitor . |
| 20 | So on the one hand we wanted to be a bit harder edged in our music , but also we could n't get too far away from Bon Jovi as it was , because people obviously bought our records because of the character of them — the songwriting and the playing . |
| 21 | When I got out of high school I wanted to be a caddie , so I got some bags at my local club . |
| 22 | There was no way I wanted to be robbed again and I determined if I had to stand in a queue it would be with this chain in my hand . |
| 23 | I was confused at school because although I did n't like the way we would dismiss the teachers and what they were trying to teach us , at the same time I wanted to be the ace yob . |
| 24 | I mean , I remember when I told my mother I wanted to be a designer she said , ‘ Oh , that is a good thing , because it shows you are not a snob ’ . ’ |
| 25 | So this last time she wanted to be in her office , correct and professional at the right time . |
| 26 | There 's always been that instinct to pick up those who have been hurt ; at one time she wanted to be a nurse , but the thought of night shifts put her off . |
| 27 | Being able to say these difficult , and intensely private things to her mother before the funeral was the trigger she wanted to be able to grieve genuinely and begin to feel the loss of her mother , rather than nurse the resentment she had had for so many years . |
| 28 | This was the very last place on earth she wanted to be . |
| 29 | At the same time they wanted to be able to increase their staffing as and when orders came along , and did not want to be in a position to have to refuse orders because they did not have the staff , or lose them because they could not promise fast enough delivery . |