Example sentences of "[vb mod] want [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May want to be rubbed , massaged . |
| 2 | But remember that dreams and ambitions change as you get older , by his forties your high-flier may have turned into a slippers and spaniel man , and who knows , by then you may want to be PM . |
| 3 | Fellow PFK readers may want to be aware of this , should they be fortunate enough to find themselves in , or near , the principality . |
| 4 | You may want to be sure a certain heirloom — perhaps worth little financially — will be passed on to a particular person . |
| 5 | Claudia , you may want to be checkin' yer motor every minute or so . |
| 6 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 7 | ‘ When your Uncle Jim died , ’ Louise continued , ‘ and I decided to retire up here , it seemed the most natural thing in the world that cousins should want to be close in their widowhood . |
| 8 | It 's only natural she should want to be with kids her own age . ’ |
| 9 | The haulier and the other contracting party must want to be bound contractually by their promises . |
| 10 | Kid must want to be a Disney cartoon villainess when she grows up . |
| 11 | I 'm sure they 'll want to be with us . |
| 12 | Once you 've opened your account , you 'll want to be able to get to your money easily and quickly . |
| 13 | ‘ He 'll want to be back at work as soon as possible . |
| 14 | I should save the trip until the weekend , when we can all go , besides , she 'll be bored with all your old historical studies , she 'll want to be with other people of her own age , other Americans , perhaps — I mean , there are plenty of them about the place , goodness knows , and that shirt should really go in the wash straight away . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They 'll want to be held up . |
| 16 | He 'll want to be up until you go to bed more or less . |
| 17 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 18 | She and Rufus and Adam himself had all been putting forward the names of people they knew who might want to be part of a commune , likely people of the right sort of age and the right sort of temperament . |
| 19 | I thought he might want to be alone . ’ |
| 20 | One member of the group might seek participation and greater responsibility , whereas another might want to be told what to do . |
| 21 | In some cases , for example the high profile job of a Press Officer or the technically demanding role of Planning Secretary , committee members might want to be sure they are filled by people with the right qualities . |
| 22 | You might want to be able to sort of get to their flat very quickly . |
| 23 | Now , er , I do n't know er why you might want to be unlisted , ex-directory , not in the book . |
| 24 | As Sperber and Wilson have shown , there is a variety of reasons why a hearer who was not in a position to process an utterance or block of utterances might want to be presented with a summary of it , and correspondingly , a variety of different sorts of summaries that a speaker might provide . |
| 25 | She thought it outrageous that he should even think she might want to be friends in the circumstances . |
| 26 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 27 | Maybe he 'd want to be a physician like his father . |
| 28 | ‘ If I was any of those people , ’ Ellie concluded , ‘ I 'd want to be one on the steamer , would n't you , Mr O'Hara ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not the kind of thing you 'd want to be true , ’ she said . |
| 30 | People likely to provide him with ammunition for his little campaigns would n't appreciate an audience any more than they 'd want to be seen tripping up the steps of the council offices to some bloody committee room . ’ |