Example sentences of "she want to [be] " in BNC.
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1 | Did she want to be seduced ? |
2 | Did she want to be loved ? |
3 | If they did , did she want to be part of one ? |
4 | Did she want to be just one more notch on Nathan Bryce 's bedpost ? |
5 | ‘ Does she want to be brilliant ? ’ |
6 | Neither did she want to be alone with him in the dark . |
7 | What does she want to be a model ? |
8 | ‘ Perhaps you were the sun for your little dragon ; and now she is strong enough , she wants to be free . ’ |
9 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
10 | What I ca n't understand is who she thanks when she wants to be thankful , for example when her son was born . |
11 | ‘ Madonna can be as big an actress as she wants to be , ’ says Ed O'Ross . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Joanne , now 17 and doing A-levels — she wants to be a doctor — still vaguely remembers Dohti and , according to her mother , keeps an open mind on the subject of reincarnation . |
14 | ‘ Oh , its been a strain — I did n't mind at first because she 'd stay down at her flat for short periods of time , but obviously as her memory 's got worse she does n't realise that she 's got a flat , and the only thing she knows is in here , and this is the only place she wants to be — here . |
15 | If an elderly parent is giving up her home to move into yours it can be a very traumatic experience for her , even though you are ‘ family ’ and she wants to be with you . |
16 | She wants to be known as a workhorse and not a clothes horse . |
17 | ‘ She wants to be perfect for Don , ’ said the friend . |
18 | She wants to be able to go ahead with their plans for a family even if he dies . |
19 | Once a woman has decided what and who she wants to be , it is for the men in her life , if there are any , to re-educate themselves to take account of her . |
20 | Acceptance , dependence or rejection will therefore be inextricably tied in with the preservation of areas of activity which have given self-esteem , which are associated with a particular role function , which confirm the old person as the sort of person he or she wants to be . |
21 | Juliana played bass on the recent Lemonheads LP and Evan Dando has returned the favour by guesting on some ‘ Hey Babe ’ tracks ; she says they like making music together but she could n't be a Lemonhead , she wants to be herself . |
22 | She wants to be Violet Elizabeth Bott ; the screeching , lithping , secretly smart brat who hung around with the nice-but-dim lads until she annoyed them into letting her join the band . |
23 | She wants to be a champion . |
24 | ‘ I do n't think she wants to be a maiden aunt , ’ Simpson said . |
25 | She says that she wants to be a wildlife photographer . |
26 | She wants to be known as Our Lady of Blémont-la-Fontaine , and her feast-day is to be in early September on the day we have the harvest festival . |
27 | But she wants to be at home , with her husband , and lots of children , and dogs everywhere . ’ |
28 | I 'm a doctor , and she wants to be a doctor , too . ’ |
29 | She 's involved with him … or she wants to be … and that 's why she was so angry with Greg Carey . |
30 | But now she wants to be taken seriously . |