Example sentences of "they wanted to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when they wanted to be helpful , badly trained Soviet doctors and under-equipped scientists were a hindrance . |
| 2 | It was just the officers and the screws , not the boys , the boys was O.K. But it was just I turned as soon as I went in , right , as soon as they wanted to be helpful , right , a copper would go like that , ‘ You no got a fag , son ? ’ |
| 3 | Then , when they were sixteen and eighteen respectively , they told us they wanted to be married . |
| 4 | They want to feel that they are making a reasonable living , though they would n't be teachers if they wanted to be rich . |
| 5 | They thought that they were right about the war ; they did not like awkward gaps in conversation ; they wanted to be friendly to people they felt sorry for ; they felt the natural human contempt for the way in which the Almighty ran the universe and yet their full share of human resignation towards it . |
| 6 | They wanted to be able to tell their insurers , Lloyd 's of London , they 'd tried to sell the stones . |
| 7 | Bell vigorously resisted the attempts by Meese and others to foist on him people he regarded as unqualified ideologues ; he was convinced that movement conservatives wanted to infiltrate his department with appointees who shared their extreme views : ‘ They wanted to be able to monitor deliberations about proposed actions and have early warning of what might be brewing in suspect agencies . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Equally , they wanted to be able to reduce their manpower as orders were completed and did not want to have to carry excess staff during slack periods . |
| 10 | They wanted to be ready to go to the South Pole at the beginning of the next Antarctic summer . |
| 11 | Shelley looked at the happy faces of her companions , and knew they wanted to be alone , however sweet they were being . |