Example sentences of "and [pers pn] wants [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an elderly parent is giving up her home to move into yours it can be a very traumatic experience for her , even though you are ‘ family ’ and she wants to be with you . |
| 2 | I 'm a doctor , and she wants to be a doctor , too . ’ |
| 3 | because he could n't get to there you see so I said well it 'll have to go now , well we 've got it shifted and it 's thrown away and , and that 's the end of that , so I says now when she does decide to come and she wants to be in here , well I said she 'll just have to carry a mattress in , and that 'll be alright just for her to sleep on |
| 4 | The 25-year-old played for Holland in the World Cup win in Turkey on Wednesday and Keegan said : ‘ He 's a Newcastle-type player — comfy on the ball , a football brain and he wants to be a winner . |
| 5 | He 's a poet , and he wants to be a star . |
| 6 | Offer him the choice of any face and he wants to be Paul Newman , not Broderick Crawford : ‘ Would n't everybody choose someone better looking ? ’ |
| 7 | But Phillip Chubb is in our group And he wants to be Robin Hood And Ann Boot is sulking because she 's not with her friend And I do n't see why I should be wood . |
| 8 | I love him , and he wants to be my husband , mother . |
| 9 | If he then writes a monograph about a " tribe " or a " people " or a " social system " and he wants to be recognized as a scientist rather than as an artist , he is under pressure to persuade himself ( and his readers ) that the events which he saw happening before his eyes were " typical " of what might be going on elsewhere in the system . |
| 10 | ‘ Jamie 's just doing A levels , Gary 's fifteen , and he wants to be a train driver . |