Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] want to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ One of the reasons I wanted to be here was to copperfasten , I hope , the central role that architecture in general , and especially the architecture of the last 300 years has in our cultural and heritage policy . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel fine and in any case I wanted to be here in person and not have to watch you on television . |
| 3 | ‘ This is the kind of acting part I want to be offered in future . |
| 4 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 5 | Sometimes I told Eva I wanted to be a photographer or an actor , or perhaps a journalist , preferably a foreign correspondent in a war zone , Cambodia or Belfast . |
| 6 | ‘ When I was a girl I wanted to be an actress . |
| 7 | December I want to be the longest-serving manager under Peter Swales . |
| 8 | Sport I want to be a football manager . |
| 9 | ‘ My friend , no wonder you wanted to be alone this afternoon . |
| 10 | like I once read a book where this girl she wanted to be a doctor and they brought her to a nursery for work experience |
| 11 | ‘ I know what it 's like in there and I 'm not sure it 's a place I want to be . ’ |
| 12 | This is the last place I want to be and I 'm not at all interested in your background . |
| 13 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |
| 14 | Right , and er , the third point I want to is that , you , what you 're actually getting consist of two elements . |
| 15 | Mad though it was , at that moment she wanted to be a part of him . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , its been a strain — I did n't mind at first because she 'd stay down at her flat for short periods of time , but obviously as her memory 's got worse she does n't realise that she 's got a flat , and the only thing she knows is in here , and this is the only place she wants to be — here . |
| 17 | Tie tall plants to their supports as they grow , and break off the tips of the main shoot of plants you want to be bushy , just above a leaf or pair of leaves , when they are a few cm ( in ) tall ; basil , rosemary , hyssop , marjoram , mint , sage and savory are some of these . |
| 18 | I think one of the things is of course to try and use the placement to sort of check out for yourself erm perhaps what sort of group you want to be working with in |
| 19 | In that moment of truth she wanted to be struck by lightning and reduced to smouldering ashes . |
| 20 | " All of a sudden you want to be a driver . " |
| 21 | Within five years we want to be close to 15 per cent . ’ |
| 22 | It is the last place they want to be . |
| 23 | There is an opportunity for agencies to redefine the business they want to be in , and find ways of building business and opportunity in areas once not perceived as part of advertising . ’ |
| 24 | The last place he wanted to be was in the car . |
| 25 | ‘ Brian Clough made the lad a terrific offer but there was only one place he wanted to be , and that was Old Trafford . |
| 26 | It seems that we now have serial correlation in our model as a result of including the dummy right , now we 've got to test statistic , I mean always look at the F version of the test , right , er our F statistic of three point seven six is significantly different from zero , right , that leaves seven percent level , so a five percent test we probably accept that we did n't have any serial correlations and we just got there by the skin of our teeth on that particular test erm yes , you could probably get away with this one , functional forms fine , no problem there , hetero skilasticity right , are F statistic three point nine but significantly different from zero that 's six percent level , right , so again we just scrape it if we were looking at the ninety five percent confidence it wants to be five percent if you are using as five percent significance level . |
| 27 | I told you , some day I want to be a designer , and — ’ |
| 28 | Why ca n't I ever behave like the person I want to be ? |
| 29 | You 're the last person I want to be near , Mr Wyatt . ’ |
| 30 | " In that case I 'll accompany you , " he said abruptly , and offered her his arm like the gentleman he wanted to be , so that the women and old men who sat at their doorways in West Street stared in amazement at the unprecedented sight of Harry Pascoe on an errand of mercy with his wife . |