Example sentences of "that he wanted [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was evident that he wanted to be not simply in the forest , but somehow at one with it ; rooted in the same fertile earth . |
| 2 | It was n't that he wanted to be more imaginative than them . |
| 3 | When he told me that he wanted to be an actor like Owen Jones , I was very surprised but instinctively excited and challenged . |
| 4 | My husband said once that he wanted to be dead but still to be . |
| 5 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 6 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 7 | I know perfectly well that when he was chairman of the Greater London council he wanted an elected police authority , and I think that he wanted to be chairman of it |
| 8 | The pity of it is that the Prime Minister , who said that he wanted to be at the heart of the process , has instead condemned this country to be semi-detached from it . |
| 9 | He also said that he wanted to be " a bridge between the leadership of MPLA and UNITA " . |
| 10 | Du Cann 's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire . |