Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] want to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Part of me would love to be in a relationship , but I 'm cautious about getting involved , even though I desperately want to be loved . |
| 32 | ‘ I first made the Cup team in 1981 and I desperately want to be in next year 's . ’ |
| 33 | And I still want to be that person ; I want to be happy ; I want to look good ; I want to command the situation I 'm in . |
| 34 | and the a the idea of of erm the butch woman in dungarees , as being the feminist , erm and the women that burnt her bra or whatever was a feminist of the seventies , but it does n't mean to say that the ideas are n't still there , and I still want to be treated as an equal , but I do , I do n't see that I should change the way that I dress or the way that that I want to act |
| 35 | " I still want to be around when the house re-opens . " |
| 36 | ‘ I still want to be out there , ’ said Navratilova , who has won four tournaments this year . |
| 37 | I 'm sorry but I , I want to be fair to everybody , yeah and I also want to be fair to the debate that 's still to come later this afternoon , but I 've called for questions and I 'd like everybody to start their statement with the question which they 're going to put to the convenor . |
| 38 | Because if I do n't escape , if something dreadful happened , I shall still know that the person I was and would have stayed if this had n't happened was not the person I now want to be . |
| 39 | ‘ But I came late into the first-class game , I 'm 28 now and I really want to be in the big time before I end my career . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ I really want to be a tennis player . |
| 41 | The only place I really want to be is my own flat . ’ |
| 42 | Now if I was a cadre and I received that I think I would be thinking right erm if I really want to be at the forefront of this that 's the policy that I want to promote erm and if the peasants in my area are not demanding this and not achieving this well we , I , I ca n't be seen not to be going it , I 've got ta go with this . |
| 43 | I really want to be successful . ’ |
| 44 | And I then want to be able to collect information on sources of pollution around their sites , if they notice particularly busy roads , things like that . |
| 45 | I 've been very poor , I 've cleaned toilets for Mecca , I 've slept on Euston station , and I never want to be like that again . |
| 46 | A linked theme , to which my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) and others referred is the position of the members of the former Warsaw pact , who desperately want to be accepted and acknowledged as democratic . |
| 47 | ‘ CHRIST ! ’ said Lucy hurtling to her feet , stalking the floor like Mildred Pierce , ‘ all your talent and you just want to be a bloody lover ! |
| 48 | ‘ Maybe you just want to be big again . |
| 49 | You just want to be left alone to die . |
| 50 | I think it is sad if you just want to be popular for the sake of it . |
| 51 | Well I do n't agree with that , I think that when your in love with someone you want to be with them all the time , you think about them during the day , you think about them at night , you just want to be with them and usually you like how they look , you like how they talk , they like , you like how they treat you and er to me that 's , its wonderful , just |
| 52 | The YPLL panel study asked young people : Where do you go and what do you do if you just want to be alone to think ? ’ |
| 53 | Sometimes you just want to be left alone , so I understand the violent reactions some celebrities have when they 're infringed upon . |
| 54 | You 're not cold you just want to be cuddled . |
| 55 | ‘ It actually you said something like : I know your answer to this will almost certainly be no , but if you still want to be involved with The Wedding Present , then do n't let Shaun 's sacking stand in your way , ’ he says . |
| 56 | I hope you still want to be in the CCC . |
| 57 | ‘ You still want to be my chief fuel technician ? ’ he teased , but she gave a mock pout . |
| 58 | Young chicks who genuinely want to be part of , and help develop , the scene will swallow his rubbish ( coming from the leading headpaper ) and will soon be mentally and physically ruined and incapable of normal deep feelings . ’ |
| 59 | You want the weight to stay off and you also want to be able to eat a reasonable amount of food after the diet without putting on weight . |
| 60 | And then we come along , another lot of white men who 've also got two chaps in long black skirts with them , who also want to be poled up the river to the Orinoco . |