Example sentences of "want to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | An early passage separates this man , who does not want to be nothing , from the trading elders of his family — pessimists who could take risks , and were consoled by their religion . |
| 2 | Did you always want to be an actor ? |
| 3 | But at the same time we do want to be saved . |
| 4 | Some people never have to use their back-ups , just as some people never need to claim on their insurance , but would you want to be uninsured ? |
| 5 | ‘ You 'm do n't want to be believing what they do write in they newspapers ma'am ’ , exclaimed the sergeant , but his visitor was not listening . |
| 6 | It 's run by a private charity and they do n't normally accept referrals from outsiders but they did n't want to be too dogmatic about that . ’ |
| 7 | They will want to be sure that you are prepared to give your time to care for the children , that you will provide for all their needs and take them out regularly , and that you really do like small children ! |
| 8 | She did n't look like she was there ; she knew she did n't want to be there . |
| 9 | Did she want to be seduced ? |
| 10 | Did she want to be loved ? |
| 11 | Well , darling , I do want to be In Love . |
| 12 | Curled tight like an embryo that does n't want to be born , like a baby who 's had too much pain . |
| 13 | I do n't want to be scared of anything . |
| 14 | Cameron did not want to be asked this . |
| 15 | You must really want to be doing something else but you wo n't let yourself admit it . ’ |
| 16 | If they did , did she want to be part of one ? |
| 17 | Did he want to be dominated ? |
| 18 | Of course he does n't really want to be alone . |
| 19 | Eliot , distressed , wrote to Wilson and to another of his champions , Gilbert Seldes , protesting that he did not want to be praised at Pound 's expense since be was indebted to Pound ( as indeed his dedication to Pound as il miglior fabbro had elegantly acknowledged ) . |
| 20 | And since senators are elected for 9 years , it is natural that they should keep in close touch with the local councillors who elected them — they do n't want to be completely forgotten . |
| 21 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 22 | They do not want to be in the position of having to make decisions . |
| 23 | ‘ Owen would want to be a significant force at United . |
| 24 | ‘ We accept that some of the gypsies , the traditional travellers , do not want to be settled and wish to remain mobile . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't want to be a dictator over the whole thing , to tell them what to do . |
| 26 | But anyone who launches a bid for Ferranti will want to be sure there are no more black holes lurking in the company 's books . |
| 27 | The bigger nations , for their part , have already developed systems of takeover supervision , and do not want to be encumbered with another layer of M&A bureaucracy . |
| 28 | Are they , and do they want to be , urbanites or suburbanites ? |
| 29 | We do not want to be handing our paper profits back to the Government . ’ |
| 30 | Wisps of distant music , the creak of machinery , enigmatic shiftings of light , a spasm of slow-motion : first you realise that this house ( in Dermot Hayes 's cunningly flimsy set , a little Calvary of stunted , corroding masts ) is haunted , then that it is doomed ; and then , the real turn of the screw , that these people may really want to be doomed . |