Example sentences of "[adv] want [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do so want to be pure in body and mind . |
| 2 | ‘ Dana is n't really a man-eater ; she only wants to be happy . ’ |
| 3 | At the same time she had fiercely wanted to be proud of Phoebe , to support Phoebe 's admirable fight on her behalf . |
| 4 | I 'd only wanted to be alone ! |
| 5 | We 'd end up with 350 MPs who all wanted to be prime minister . |
| 6 | I only wanted to be kind to the Dust Baby . |
| 7 | And time out : Another blow for the girl who just wants to be one of the boys . |
| 8 | ‘ She just wants to be alone with her boys to try to forget the separation traumas . |
| 9 | THEY say every picture tells a story … and these pictures show a woman who just wants to be alone . |
| 10 | Recently though , I have become less depressed with the help of antidepressants and I 've realised that I no longer want to be ill . |
| 11 | You no longer want to be marginal or difficult ? |
| 12 | Elaine desperately wants to be free : free to fall in love , work hard and have fun . |
| 13 | I mean most women just want to be good at something , they 've got good-at minds , and they mean deftness and a flair and good taste and what-not . |
| 14 | And , a a I mean I think we have , you know , to be feminists because we do n't want to be better than men , we just want to be equal . |
| 15 | We just want to be sure everything is hunky-dory . ’ |
| 16 | Because I just want to be sure . |
| 17 | ‘ I just want to be sure that there 'll be one stupid incompetent fuck less in the world ! ’ |
| 18 | I just want to be sure that your friend is prepared . ’ |
| 19 | I just want to be sure that you 've told me all you know . ’ |
| 20 | I just want to be comfortable . |
| 21 | I think it is sad if you just want to be popular for the sake of it . |
| 22 | ‘ Maybe you just want to be big again . |
| 23 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 24 | Yeah I just want to be clear on wh |
| 25 | We just want to be alone |
| 26 | I just want to be alone , so if you do n't mind … ’ |
| 27 | The YPLL panel study asked young people : Where do you go and what do you do if you just want to be alone to think ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I just want to be able to do what I like . ’ |
| 29 | I just want to be able to say I 've done it , that 's all . ’ |
| 30 | I do n't intend to push myself , I just want to be ready . ’ |