Example sentences of "they want [pers pn] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what they want me to be — some crummy clerk with painted fingernails number-crunching on a computer all day . |
| 2 | What the sponsor wants we try to see he gets , and that 's why a great deal of my time is spent being seen where they want me to be seen , like tonight 's cocktail party . |
| 3 | ‘ Some women want the man to be the boss , they want him to be Daddy . |
| 4 | They want them to be called Zimbabwe Ridgbacks . |
| 5 | Some people try to force their partner to be the person they want them to be . |
| 6 | But they want them to be more explicit , a survey by Channel 4 's Check Out show reveals today . |
| 7 | They want them to be more responsible , more self-determining , to take matters into their own hands , and yet they oppose the only thing the tenants have of their own — organisation . |
| 8 | They want them to be more answerable to public opinion . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps they want you to be King , too , without me , ’ I said quietly . |
| 10 | Anything they want you to be you 'll be you know . |
| 11 | So she said dad 's got to go straight down now for emergency surgery , come on then , for emergency surgery and they want you to be there before he goes , oh christ perhaps I 'm |
| 12 | Because they want to sell that , but they want it to be sort of like half private |
| 13 | They want us to be ourselves and they themselves and to meet as friends … only after some quiet times with a dolphin do we enjoy letting it be in charge of the encounter , and see what it may decide to do next with us . ' |
| 14 | ‘ That 's what they want us to be . |