Example sentences of "want [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you want me to be married ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps it 'll make Daddy want me to be one too , ’ she added hopefully . |
| 3 | You can be Prince Philip — who do you want me to be ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Do you want me to be nice or honest ? ’ |
| 5 | So then Berndt and the old witch will know I 'm as smart as they do n't want me to be , AND that I 've been poking around in high-security files . |
| 6 | The police did n't want me to be sentenced , which I was stunned about . |
| 7 | Do you honestly want me to be your wife ? ’ |
| 8 | I had assumed he would still want me to be his wife , and wondered why he did not ask me . |
| 9 | Do you want me to be struck off ? |
| 10 | Then what did you want me to be ? |
| 11 | ‘ You did n't want me to be hurt ? |
| 12 | My mother will want me to be more altruistic to hers , than my father will . |
| 13 | My father will want me to be more altruistic to his relatives , than my mother will . |
| 14 | ‘ You would n't want me to be vain . |
| 15 | Silas would not want me to be in a room where somebody such as yourself could have an ear pressed to the wall . |
| 16 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 17 | You do want me to be precise about what I tell you ? ’ |
| 18 | Well do you want me to be at that meeting then ? |
| 19 | ‘ Why did you want me to be at a disadvantage ? ’ she demanded . |
| 20 | daddy I got them , where do you want me to be . |
| 21 | People say : ‘ Students are by definition idealistic and impatient — would Mugabe really want them to be any different ? |
| 22 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
| 23 | ‘ Would n't want them to be teaching us . |
| 24 | I am really glad of it ; I do n't think I would want them to be there , just in case I lost . |
| 25 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
| 26 | We do not want them to be upset , so we keep them away from funerals , or from saying goodbye , face to face , to their relatives and friends . |
| 27 | ‘ Because when we do join up on the Monday , I do n't want them to be going into the game cold . |
| 28 | President-elect Clinton , in the second day of his barnstorming session on the economy in Little Rock , Arkansas said of the IBM cut-backs ‘ That kind of investment is the exact thing we do n't want them to be cutting . ’ |
| 29 | How long do you want them to be on H R T for ? |
| 30 | We do n't want them to be with us . |