Example sentences of "want [prep] [be] [adj] " 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 " No , you want to is all .
3 Those with a little cash to spend , who want to be modern and sophisticated , as advertisements suggest , buy imported whiskey and brandy .
4 ‘ You want to be modern , but the people do n't like it . ’
5 We 've talked about this so often : you know I want to be supportive , but I also have to do my job properly .
6 A letter said : ‘ If you want me to be powerless , helpless and totally dependent on you , I want to be that .
7 I want to be this , I want to be that .
8 ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be .
9 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 .
10 I want to be that guy up there .
11 I want to be honest .
12 ‘ I want to be honest ! ’
13 Rather , it is an unconscious , gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies , by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict .
14 Whether you want to be ultra-feminine and coy with a tiny dinky bag , or to use a chic leather box to give out vibes of power and control , or perhaps just want to splash out on serious quality in a crazy colour the handbag is the lifestyle message of the season .
15 Like new things , Act like barometers of social want to be trendy .
16 Areas can be painted in or you can edit the Attribute screen on a pixel by pixel basis — in magnified mode if you really want to be accurate .
17 I want to be helpful , although I shall not stand as a referee between the two Front Bench teams .
18 In both classroom and staffroom they want to be authentic and energetic : to be able to display their enthusiasm and true beliefs without being disparaged .
19 I want to be nineteen for ever .
20 Live and let live I say , but unless I want to be certain of constantly bumping into parties of rambling Rotarians , I think I will keep off these organised highways .
21 As i want to be certain of something , I need to know the prime time to apply , to be sure of getting something I suppose .
22 The commission and other member states want to be certain Italian farmers will respect the new quotas after overproducing for years .
23 Er and then to contrast this you 've got like the feminist view er well it 's a just reconstruct a lot of these ideas instead of saying that women 's talk was diffident they said it was more considerate , and so the idea that quite often A lot of the features that are in this conversation are n't because women want to be deferential to the men they 're talking to , it 's that they actually want to show some consideration to the turn-taking or the conversational style that 's going on .
24 You want to be famous , but then you 're not happy when you are famous .
25 So Melissa you want to be famous
26 So Melissa you want to be famous
27 I want to be rich and handsome .
28 It is whether we want to be rich or poor — rich in Europe or poor outside it .
29 Certainly white children in substitute white families , or their biological families , do not deny that they are white , nor want to be black .
30 Even though it 's about Irishmen who want to be black . ’
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