Example sentences of "she want [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Does she want to be brilliant ? ’ |
| 2 | Neither did she want to be alone with him in the dark . |
| 3 | Well , I think at first they were both afraid to become music specialists , but she knows so much now — good contemporary pop music , not just my music — that she wants to be involved with it and she refuses to be professionally involved unless she has expert knowledge . |
| 4 | ‘ She wants to be perfect for Don , ’ said the friend . |
| 5 | What I ca n't understand is who she thanks when she wants to be thankful , for example when her son was born . |
| 6 | cos my sister , yeah , she wants to be responsible , she wants to be a scientist |
| 7 | She wants to be able to go ahead with their plans for a family even if he dies . |
| 8 | She wants to be careful if the Japs do n't come to Pearl Harbour again . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps you were the sun for your little dragon ; and now she is strong enough , she wants to be free . ’ |
| 10 | She does n't want any up , she wants to be happy with , I mean Jane out of all them I mean normally I mean she 's , she would do anything for you . |
| 11 | Now she wanted to be useful again , and to work . |
| 12 | This morning Clare felt tender and loving ; she wanted to be close to him . |
| 13 | But she wanted to be polite . ) |
| 14 | Typically , Oliver said that after the marriage Gill ought to call herself Mrs Gillian Wyatt-or-Hughes , that is if she wanted to be logical and grammatical and commonsensical and diplomatic and cumbersome . |
| 15 | Bathsheba felt almost sure she knew the truth about Fanny and Troy , but she wanted to be certain . |
| 16 | She felt hung over , and a million miles from the bed she wanted to be asleep in . |
| 17 | She wanted to be closer still . |
| 18 | Although the technology is available now , it will not be launched commercially until the first quarter of 1994 , because Ms Burke said , she wanted to be sure the company was geared up sufficiently to cope with any demands made on it . |
| 19 | Said she could check with the hotel if she wanted to be sure . |
| 20 | It was early afternoon and she wanted to be sure of getting to Panshanger before Wyatt returned . |
| 21 | She wanted to be happy with him and for everything to be as it had been before but it did n't seem possible . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She wanted to be sick . |
| 24 | She wanted to be sick , but that would be a bad idea . |
| 25 | She wanted to be special — and that was the height of foolishness . |
| 26 | She said she wanted to be free , to finish her training , she was afraid of being tied down . |
| 27 | She wanted to be free to do her own thing — be independent — get a job , perhaps . |
| 28 | That was the reason she wanted to be alone with the visitor . |
| 29 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 30 | ‘ No , thank you , ’ Hari said quickly , she wanted to be alone to sort out her muddled thoughts . |