Example sentences of "i want [prep] be " in BNC.
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1 | Right , and er , the third point I want to is that , you , what you 're actually getting consist of two elements . |
2 | ‘ I know what it 's like in there and I 'm not sure it 's a place I want to be . ’ |
3 | I want to be In Love . |
4 | I want to be your lover . |
5 | I want to be honest . |
6 | ‘ I want to be the best ’ she explains proudly , ‘ it does n't matter how long it takes . ’ |
7 | ‘ Margaret Thatcher shows that she is from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy : ‘ I want to be alone . ’ |
8 | ‘ I want to be alone . ’ |
9 | Mr Chapman said : ‘ I have usually got on well with newspaper proprietors , but this time I want to be in charge . ’ |
10 | From the other side of the wafer-thin wall between Odeon One and Two comes the voice of The Jungle Book 's Baloo : ‘ I want to talk like you , walk like you , I want to be like you . ’ |
11 | ‘ I want to be in your place ’ collapses temporarily into ‘ I want you ’ ; identification merges with desire , which is then a desire to be/displace the male as other . |
12 | I want to be a gardener . |
13 | But I want to be . |
14 | After a pause they thought would never end they heard , ‘ I want to be alone , ’ clear as a single bell note , free of all self-assertiveness . |
15 | I want to be a social worker so I could do something for these girls . ’ |
16 | It is just that I want to be free . ’ |
17 | I want to be able to write to you again — soon — and tell you how our projects are developing — not just in Vietnam , but across the world . |
18 | I want to be involved in the growth of something . |
19 | While Benjamin Dale , the composer , or Leigh Henry , the critic , lectured on Stravinsky and Schoenberg ( in 1915 ! ) , two companies of music-hall artists competed with Legs and the Woman ( the title after Shaw … ) and with the camp 's first ragtime chorus in drag : Down in Ruhleben , there I want to be , Four thousand boys would be enough for me ! |
20 | December I want to be the longest-serving manager under Peter Swales . |
21 | In other words , I want to be loved . |
22 | All simple & partly lovely women attract me , & not merely attract me , but I want to be something to them . |
23 | ‘ Please , Mrs H , I want to be here , stay with you . |
24 | I want to be a cadet officer in the Guards — Grenadiers , Coldstream sort of thing . |
25 | ‘ No , I want to be near my Premium Bonds . |
26 | I want to be part of a live group , playing live songs . ’ |
27 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
28 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
29 | I have a vivid picture of who I want to be , and it 's everything I 'm not . |
30 | I want to be beautiful , so stunning that heads turn in the street , boys fall over themselves to ask me out , and everyone admires me . |