Example sentences of "want to be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and with a leprous man came over and began doing a to him saying , Lord if you just want to you can make me clean , and so stretching out his hand he touched him saying , I want to be made clean and immediately his leprosy was , vanished away , then Jesus said to him , see that you tell no one , but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses appointed for the purpose of a witness to them when he entered into Calpurnia that 's the other two , that the other |
| 2 | You just want to be left alone to die . |
| 3 | We want to be left alone . |
| 4 | They want to be left alone ; fear being touched because of the bodily soreness . |
| 5 | Subordinates want to be left alone while their superiors want no surprises . |
| 6 | Sometimes I just want to be left alone to do it my way , whether it 's right or wrong . |
| 7 | We just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 8 | " I want to be left alone . |
| 9 | I just want to be left alone ! ’ |
| 10 | I just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 11 | Industries want to be left alone so that they can continue to export more than the Japanese . |
| 12 | Sometimes you just want to be left alone , so I understand the violent reactions some celebrities have when they 're infringed upon . |
| 13 | They want to be proved right . |
| 14 | Very irritable and wants to be left alone ; slightest motion causes pain , even turning the head ; dry lips and copious thirst for cold water . |
| 15 | The hero of Simon Gray 's comedy Otherwise Engaged ( 1975 ) , in similar fashion , only wants to be left alone to play his new recording of Wagner 's Parsifal , but he is successively interrupted by neighbour , brother and wife , who succeed in disturbing him and fail only to interest him . |
| 16 | He wants to be left alone to get on with the job , including completing Knowsley 's ‘ positive futures ’ programme to develop a direct services system for supporting those in need living in the community . |
| 17 | Perhaps he wants to be left alone . ’ |
| 18 | I remember definite feelings of not wanting to be felt sorry for , very much wanting everything to carry on as normal . |
| 19 | And what 's so terrible about wanting to be left alone ? |
| 20 | ‘ If somebody were fashion conscious when alive , why should they want to be seen dead in something unflattering ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't want to be seen naked on anyone 's coffee table ’ . |
| 22 | I do n't mind being recorded , but I do n't want to be made peripheral . |
| 23 | ‘ People like me , who were in their 20s in the 1960s , want to look good , but are n't obsessed by fashion and certainly do n't want to be made uncomfortable by it . ’ |
| 24 | For example , this theory is incapable of accounting for the phenomenon of redundancies : workers surely do not want to be made redundant in order to indulge their desire for longer holidays . |
| 25 | Tt , cos I do n't want to be made redundant by being awkward |
| 26 | And and the women , are very difficult about apply for the jobs , so I think it 's going to take an awful long time , erm , I 'm all in favour of equal opportunities , erm , on all accounts , and I would agree with Councillor that one of the difficulties about registered dis disability is that , a lot of people who could actually be a registered disabled person , but for reasons of pride , do n't want to be registered disabled . |
| 27 | Bella did n't want to be called guilty ; her instinct was always for ambiguity . |
| 28 | United wo n't want to be cut adrift of Arsenal , the team we all have to get past to win the Championship . ’ |
| 29 | It does not seem to bother them that their chances of survival are low , but then only the most crazed Goblins would want to be propelled high into the air anyway . |
| 30 | It is , I decide , not my fault either that I am a human being who does not want to be eaten alive . |