Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [pers pn] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 2 | So we will need a tolerant and patient horse if we want to use it as a school horse , or a plough horse , or even a dressage horse . |
| 3 | Power-hungry people would want to use it as a weapon — which it could very successfully be utilised as — or else as a way of controlling others en masse . |
| 4 | The local enterprise companies in Scotland would want to consider the matter , although I doubt whether at this stage we should want to regard it as the responsibility of the LECs to give individual support or subsidy to people seeking such a qualification . |
| 5 | ALTHOUGH SHE HATE POSING FOR PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS SHE NEVER MINDED WHEN BERNARD WANTED TO USE HER AS A MODEL . |
| 6 | He just wanted to use me as a sort of social-aid-cum-aphrodisiac . |
| 7 | Tolerated once again under President Anwar Sadat , who wanted to use it as a counterweight to the left , the Brotherhood had been prevented from operating openly by a clause in the Constitution which prohibited the recognition of political parties based on religion . |
| 8 | Others wanted to reconceptualise it as a process which could be of benefit to the school , and their department in particular . |