Example sentences of "wanted [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's everything I wanted after being a gypsy for all those years in Europe . |
| 2 | You could be as frank as you wanted with be . ’ |
| 3 | It is headed by the big man 's white man , the Belgian scholar Raymond , who has lost favour with his patron and is sinking into ceremonies of highly-placed sagacity , Salim has an affair with the white man 's white woman , his stylish wife Yvette : radical chic persuades him that he ‘ never wanted to be ordinary again' . |
| 4 | Originally I wanted to be a doctor like my father , but it was soon clear I did n't have the intelligence for that — that 's to say I was n't any good at mathematics and physics and that sort of thing . |
| 5 | He wanted to be a detective . |
| 6 | I could have said anything , made an excuse , but I wanted to be straight and it 's only making things worse . ’ |
| 7 | And Jay , who was no one 's mother nor wanted to be , found herself mothering Lucy . |
| 8 | He could n't be part of their brotherhood but he wanted to be among them . |
| 9 | If the dead person wanted to be buried outside the parish where they lived , the permission of the local clergy must be sought , and can be refused , unless there is space in an existing grave that the family intended for the dead person . |
| 10 | If I wanted to be pretentious , I might call this paper an investigation of the sociology of literature . |
| 11 | He went to the US because ‘ Goldsmith decided that if you wanted to be a capitalist the UK and France were not the places to be ’ . |
| 12 | Charlie Clairmonte was the real winner , though — the one the highlighted products of London 's solariums wanted to be photographed with . |
| 13 | Management were told at the ritual claim submission in London that Ford workers at the 21 plants wanted to be the best paid in the motor industry . |
| 14 | There was a surrealist episode involved a gnarled coach , an attractive young woman who was trying to be a hooker ( rugby variety ) and a small boy who wanted to be a scrum-half . |
| 15 | ‘ I wanted to be different , ’ he admitted . |
| 16 | Since the man was in this incapable state most afternoons , the head rightly wanted to be rid of him . |
| 17 | ‘ I wanted to be a primary teacher , and you have to teach so many different things at that level that it seemed better to study a broader range of subjects , ’ she says . |
| 18 | He wanted to be buried near Temple 's remains . |
| 19 | Any past Minister of Health who wanted to be Minister of Health again would have very peculiar tastes . |
| 20 | There was one lady called ‘ Toss-Off Kate ’ who used to go round the audience and sit beside various isolated gentlemen and ask them if they wanted to be serviced . |
| 21 | It was the temple for everyone who wanted to be involved in something that had nothing to do with what most people thought was ‘ happening ’ in that part of the seventies . |
| 22 | Simple as that And he always wanted to be in on any underground culture going . |
| 23 | For example , he wanted to be a member of as many clubs — of any description — as possible . |
| 24 | I 've had enough of it and I wanted to be alone . |
| 25 | She would see– him occasionally for the rest of her life , and she wanted to be able to chat to him , invite him for more games of chess , more visits to historic gardens . |
| 26 | She wanted to be able to sit there and be like them , to sit there and sip Coke and not to have to worry about whether she would laugh at the right moments . |
| 27 | She just wanted to be free of the burden of her own special powers . |
| 28 | She wanted to be as mature and sensible as Rachel was , she wanted to be reassuring and maternal and all she could do was cling to Maggie and sob and sob . |
| 29 | She wanted to be as mature and sensible as Rachel was , she wanted to be reassuring and maternal and all she could do was cling to Maggie and sob and sob . |
| 30 | So this last time she wanted to be in her office , correct and professional at the right time . |