Example sentences of "that i want [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is just that I want to be free . ’ |
| 2 | It 's not that I want to be the ideal woman ; I 'd simply like to be able to walk down a street and not even think about it . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not that I want to be away from here , ’ Eve said earnestly . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think I have much else to prove … other than that I want to be the best player in the world . |
| 5 | into the field that I want to be in you know I do n't think it 's possible to just walk straight in unless you 're very lucky . |
| 6 | I 'm not proud , it 's just that I want to be in the right place . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think , ’ said Melanie , ‘ that I want to be Leda . ’ |
| 8 | I shall say I feel differently towards him , that I want to be his friend and lameduck him in London . |
| 9 | As I I love being a candidate , I love talking to voters , I like being active and doing things and that 's the reason basically that I want to be your Euro candidate , I 'm ready to be a candidate again . |
| 10 | ‘ The point is that I want to be near you . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm gon na do that I want to be free . |
| 12 | I think the other thing was that I wanted to be known as a musician rather than some other phenomenon other than a musician and I think that also had an effect on me too . |
| 13 | I decided when I was 11 and I started doing drama at school , when I came over from New Zealand , that I wanted to be an actress . ’ |
| 14 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 15 | Nothing else mattered at the moment except the fact that I wanted to be a follower of Jesus Christ — whoever He was . |
| 16 | I also felt that I wanted to be apart from the routine of normal home life with the washing , cooking and to think about . |
| 17 | When I saw that I wanted to be him , or one of them , or both of them , but anyway I was just so happy to watch them together . |
| 18 | ‘ I used to think that I wanted to be a lawyer when I was a little kid ! ’ |
| 19 | And anyway , I was so overwhelmed by her mother , who was so sweet to me , that I wanted to be her friend . |
| 20 | At age seven I decided that I wanted to be a soldier , after I had watched a TV programme about the D-Day landings . |
| 21 | I told them that there was no doubt in my mind but that I wanted to be a paratrooper . |