Example sentences of "she wants [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps you were the sun for your little dragon ; and now she is strong enough , she wants to be free . ’ |
| 2 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 3 | What I ca n't understand is who she thanks when she wants to be thankful , for example when her son was born . |
| 4 | ‘ Madonna can be as big an actress as she wants to be , ’ says Ed O'Ross . |
| 5 | Well , I think at first they were both afraid to become music specialists , but she knows so much now — good contemporary pop music , not just my music — that she wants to be involved with it and she refuses to be professionally involved unless she has expert knowledge . |
| 6 | Joanne , now 17 and doing A-levels — she wants to be a doctor — still vaguely remembers Dohti and , according to her mother , keeps an open mind on the subject of reincarnation . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , its been a strain — I did n't mind at first because she 'd stay down at her flat for short periods of time , but obviously as her memory 's got worse she does n't realise that she 's got a flat , and the only thing she knows is in here , and this is the only place she wants to be — here . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She wants to be known as a workhorse and not a clothes horse . |
| 10 | ‘ She wants to be perfect for Don , ’ said the friend . |
| 11 | She wants to be able to go ahead with their plans for a family even if he dies . |
| 12 | Once a woman has decided what and who she wants to be , it is for the men in her life , if there are any , to re-educate themselves to take account of her . |
| 13 | Acceptance , dependence or rejection will therefore be inextricably tied in with the preservation of areas of activity which have given self-esteem , which are associated with a particular role function , which confirm the old person as the sort of person he or she wants to be . |
| 14 | Juliana played bass on the recent Lemonheads LP and Evan Dando has returned the favour by guesting on some ‘ Hey Babe ’ tracks ; she says they like making music together but she could n't be a Lemonhead , she wants to be herself . |
| 15 | She wants to be Violet Elizabeth Bott ; the screeching , lithping , secretly smart brat who hung around with the nice-but-dim lads until she annoyed them into letting her join the band . |
| 16 | She wants to be a champion . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think she wants to be a maiden aunt , ’ Simpson said . |
| 18 | She says that she wants to be a wildlife photographer . |
| 19 | She wants to be known as Our Lady of Blémont-la-Fontaine , and her feast-day is to be in early September on the day we have the harvest festival . |
| 20 | But she wants to be at home , with her husband , and lots of children , and dogs everywhere . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm a doctor , and she wants to be a doctor , too . ’ |
| 22 | She 's involved with him … or she wants to be … and that 's why she was so angry with Greg Carey . |
| 23 | But now she wants to be taken seriously . |
| 24 | ‘ So she wants to be rid of me ! |
| 25 | But I think a feminist is somebody who knows that she wants a decent life , she wants to be in control of her own destiny , and who thinks she 's entitled to that . |
| 26 | Sue says there are times when she does n't feel like training but she presses on because she wants to be number one . |
| 27 | This child wants to get back to school , she wants to be in the Christmas play . ’ |
| 28 | When she wants to be an equal . |
| 29 | Well she wants to be his curate , er , she does use the curate . |
| 30 | She wants to be careful if the Japs do n't come to Pearl Harbour again . |