Example sentences of "wants [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously when you 're driving along the road the observation y wants to be up the road as far as it possibly can be . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Wherever I am , he rings up or follows me or wants to be with me . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm the one who wants to be with you |
| 5 | I 'm the one who wants to be with you |
| 6 | yeah , she wants to be with the science lab , yeah |
| 7 | However sympathetic or kind one wants to be towards a family , he ca n't be a social worker . |
| 8 | ‘ My dear Meg , this lady , ’ Charles Briant said with dignity , ‘ is a boot and shoemaker , she simply wants to be of service to us , to make , like us all , an honest living . ’ |
| 9 | But she wants to be at home , with her husband , and lots of children , and dogs everywhere . ’ |
| 10 | The Prime Minister claims that he wants to be at the heart of Europe , but his real objective is a bypass operation . |
| 11 | It 's the show which almost every dog lover wants to be at . |
| 12 | Clinvest avoids firms in which other banks hold a stake : it wants to be on its own , so that it can be more influential . |
| 13 | ‘ So if anyone wants to be on television in America , they 'd better be at my party . ’ |
| 14 | How will I feel if Jonathan wants to be on TV when he grows up ? |
| 15 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to be on his way , I would not wish to delay him for a moment . |
| 16 | But I think that er this er Centenary Sports Ground gon na be large enough for the public to see and this and wants to be on a smaller metal er edition that 's there for er ever and a day . |
| 17 | Say that we want it set up in here with a photograph and that wants to be on the thing outsi |
| 18 | ‘ Everyone wants to be near her . |
| 19 | She wants to be near us . |
| 20 | 58% of subjects believed that people with TB should be quarantined , and 63% perceived TB as a severe social stigma , endorsing the item ‘ if you have TB no-one wants to be around you , even people you thought were your friends ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | His plight affects us like the unwilling martyrdom of a saint who wants to be like other men . |
| 23 | His mum Pam , 37 , said : ‘ He says he wants to be like Nigel Mansell and win the world championship . ’ |
| 24 | Only when man aspires above his station and wants to be like God does he fall to a lowlier position in which all his relationships are soured . |
| 25 | The persona , in turn , may represent a fictive group who the speaker " wants to be like " at that particular moment ; or rather , who the speaker wants to appear to be like ; in terms of speech , wants to sound like . |
| 26 | Wants to be like Chamber of Horrors ! |
| 27 | It would have been nice to go into partnership with my son Paul , but he deals in what used to be called the avant-garde , the most difficult stuff to sell , and wants to be in New York . |
| 28 | Everybody wants to be in control . |
| 29 | ‘ This lady just wants to be in touch , ’ says Lorraine . |
| 30 | Not every older person wants to be in the company of peers , or find it difficult to include younger people among their circle of friends . |