Example sentences of "wanted [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh Major I bet he wanted to be right from being a kid , wanted to be prime minister . |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to be nearer home and there were n't any vacancies in the local hospitals at that particular time . |
| 3 | He was silent for a moment , then he said , ‘ But you wanted to be nearer to your home ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , I wanted to be nearer home to be able to give my parents a hand with Jennifer . |
| 5 | And oh , she inwardly sighed , and wanted to be nearer to him . |
| 6 | Because , she said , she simply wanted to be honest . |
| 7 | I wanted to be honest and say I 'd |
| 8 | They all wanted to be mightier than the mightiest waves . |
| 9 | Typically , Oliver said that after the marriage Gill ought to call herself Mrs Gillian Wyatt-or-Hughes , that is if she wanted to be logical and grammatical and commonsensical and diplomatic and cumbersome . |
| 10 | I just wanted to be private , to be able to choose whom I talked to , let alone where and when . |
| 11 | Unix Labs , by virtue of its position as Unix mama , wanted to be first , and did its pitch the week before last with X/Open Co Ltd explaining the fast track process and Hewlett-Packard observing . |
| 12 | Unix Systems Labs , by virtue of its position as Unix mama , wanted to be first , and did its pitch the week before last with X/Open Co Ltd explaining the fast track process and HP observing . |
| 13 | He and Anne still never spoke and everybody knew that they were enemies , because they both wanted to be first in the examination . |
| 14 | Well , young lady , I wanted to be good when I was younger , but life has been a struggle for me , and I 've become as hard and tough as a rubber ball . |
| 15 | They thought that they were right about the war ; they did not like awkward gaps in conversation ; they wanted to be friendly to people they felt sorry for ; they felt the natural human contempt for the way in which the Almighty ran the universe and yet their full share of human resignation towards it . |
| 16 | This morning she had sensed he wanted to be friendly . |
| 17 | If we wanted to be tabloid fodder we easily could be . |
| 18 | And the Devil — the angel Lucifer , and the apple of God 's eye — wanted to be equal with God . |
| 19 | Morrissey was still very upset about that incident and wanted to be close to the decision makers . |
| 20 | This morning Clare felt tender and loving ; she wanted to be close to him . |
| 21 | I really wanted to be close to the sea again , which I had not seen or even smelt for so long . |
| 22 | ‘ I wanted to be close , ’ Maria asserted shakily , uncaring in her agony of how much she revealed . |
| 23 | We 'd end up with 350 MPs who all wanted to be prime minister . |
| 24 | Oh Major I bet he wanted to be right from being a kid , wanted to be prime minister . |
| 25 | ‘ Yeah , ’ said somebody drunk who just wanted to be nasty , ‘ you tell her . |
| 26 | But she wanted to be polite . ) |
| 27 | I did n't think you wanted to be bored by that again and Alan 's back on there so er where are you there you are right . |
| 28 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 29 | It was the temple for everyone who wanted to be involved in something that had nothing to do with what most people thought was ‘ happening ’ in that part of the seventies . |
| 30 | ‘ I wanted to be involved in the actual process of taking decisions and making policies . |