Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] wants to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acer America Corporation , which really wants to be a player in the reconstituted ‘ minicomputer ’ market , will be busy this week shoring up its defences at the low end . |
| 2 | They actually relocated people out of cities , they did n't really kill them off , just put them somewhere nobody else wants to be . |
| 3 | ‘ There is a part of me still wants to be back in Bosnia and if I get the chance I 'll be there like a shot . ’ |
| 4 | Poor darling , she only wants to be taken out . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Dana is n't really a man-eater ; she only wants to be happy . ’ |
| 6 | I thought , ‘ Here is this man who just begs to be loved , and who just wants to be a handsome , gorgeous leading man , ’ but who really was not . |
| 7 | And time out : Another blow for the girl who just wants to be one of the boys . |
| 8 | THEY say every picture tells a story … and these pictures show a woman who just wants to be alone . |
| 9 | ‘ She just wants to be alone with her boys to try to forget the separation traumas . |
| 10 | She just wants to be in bed for a day . |
| 11 | Not because she purposely wants to be but because she just do n't think she 'd to done it , do you ? |
| 12 | Nevertheless , she still wants to be a teacher , and has begun to develop more social confidence through her work as a tutor . |
| 13 | I think she still wants to be friends . |
| 14 | She probably wants to be friends now . |
| 15 | I wonder if she really wants to be out of bed this morning , talking to a couple of lunatics , or not . |
| 16 | Meryl Streep is wonderfully comic as an actress who really wants to be a singer , while Shirley Maclaine shows her versatility and talent as she defiantly crashes through ‘ I 'm Still Here ’ . |
| 17 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | A transsexual is somebody who actually wants to be the other totally … . |
| 20 | It only wants to be played on . |
| 21 | So really when he well it obviously wants to be in the place where you want it . |
| 22 | He just wants to be off . |
| 23 | JOHN SALAKO last night shrugged off an injury scare and said he desperately wants to be part of England 's World Cup plans against Turkey at Wembley next week . |
| 24 | ‘ You said he still wants to be boss . ’ |
| 25 | He still wants to be leader — or , better still , prime minister — and he knows that he is still in with a chance . |
| 26 | God you picked it up quick Yeah , look right he just goes , alright I go to him , Oh you know Kim said she ca n't you know force you or anything , and erm , yeah , he goes , he goes he still wants to be friends , and everything and he goes , tell her that do n't want to hold anything against each other , if that 's possible yeah yeah yeah and he no it 's and he said s yeah I know , I know , no he said , okay Well I du n no , you know Paul . |
| 27 | Yeah , anyway , yeah , he still wants to be friends with you and all the rest of it oh I do you know Paul , he 'll change his mind tomorrow I mean you have , kind of changed your mind have n't you ? |
| 28 | I know that one of his reasons for leaving is that he genuinely wants to be able to spend more time with his family . |
| 29 | But erm , you know , it 's , it 's like erm , if you talk about erm , funding per head or funding for the , for the overall spaces , you know , if it 's Mr , he always wants to be funded by the , the mile of roadblock for the population , because we have rather a lot of one to the other , and I think there may be a similar situation with the police . |
| 30 | He thinks about whether he really wants to be doing this with his life at all . |