Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] want [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must really want to be doing something else but you wo n't let yourself admit it . ’ |
| 2 | After that , and because of that , Birt may not want to be around . |
| 3 | What we had n't bargained for was that she might not want to be the next Franz Klammer . |
| 4 | An insecure man , she knew , might not want to be married to someone more powerful than himself . |
| 5 | Perhaps he and Laetitia should forget their search for their missing brother or sister , who , after all , might not want to be found , and let the past look after itself ? |
| 6 | If the recovery is faltering he 'll clearly want to be more keen to cut interest rates , and also he 'll want to take into account the effect of any tax increases he may introduce in his budget . |
| 7 | He could not want to be kind , could not love the tarnished and ruined thing Sally-Anne Tunstall was , but she looked at him all the same . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd never want to be as big a girl as Benny Hogan . |
| 9 | Wisps of distant music , the creak of machinery , enigmatic shiftings of light , a spasm of slow-motion : first you realise that this house ( in Dermot Hayes 's cunningly flimsy set , a little Calvary of stunted , corroding masts ) is haunted , then that it is doomed ; and then , the real turn of the screw , that these people may really want to be doomed . |
| 10 | That having been said , I would not want to be without the very special qualities of this new Teldec release — a most moving interpretation brilliantly performed . |
| 11 | And there are not many boys who would not want to be him , because A he is attractive , B he can write and act , C he can play the drums and D he is a wild boy and rebel . ’ |
| 12 | Of the two , Biddulph again offer the finest transfers , though I would not want to be without Cortot 's version of the Liszt Sonata on Music and Arts where , despite so may battle-scarred moments , his performance blazes with an endearingly old-fashioned poetry , thunder and lightning . |
| 13 | And I would not want to be pushed further . |
| 14 | Of course Harry would not want to be burdened with her , even if he could afford to start up his stud at Maythorpe House . |
| 15 | The Consumer Credit Trade Association is considering the NCC proposals , but Director John Patrick FICM said that his initial thoughts were that the CCTA would not want to be involved in collecting a levy . |
| 16 | His life is very simple and he would not want to be rich . ’ |
| 17 | There is a very simple message here : if I were you Mr Chairman , I would not want to be a Labour priority . |
| 18 | If he thought that he would hardly want to be the next head boy . ’ |
| 19 | Who would ever want to be a captain ? |
| 20 | And she knew that if she had been made welcome from the start , she would still want to be with them , in spite of this comparative luxury . |
| 21 | I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show . |
| 22 | I shall always want to be a part of the event in some form or another — as a committee man or hanger — on but as far as captaincy is concerned this is definitely it . |
| 23 | And when I asked his orchestra 's publicist if Daniel Barenboim would really want to be interviewed immediately after such a lengthy spell of high-altitude incarceration , she said : ‘ He came in by Concorde , he 's just been on a two-week skiing trip with his family in Switzerland — believe me , he 'll be just fine . ’ |
| 24 | THIS fractured and desolate album is often unbearably intense , and you sincerely would n't want to be in its author 's shoes . |
| 25 | I just thought you would n't want to be woken up again . ’ |
| 26 | But then I do n't like blood so I would n't want to be either a cook or a surgeon . |
| 27 | That 's why I would n't want to be a model . |
| 28 | He happily helps the farmer but also has some sympathy with the cuddly pet view , if only to the extent that he would n't want to be responsible for wiping rabbits out — as if he could ! |
| 29 | If it 's like promoting the idea of killing cops as being a good thing , if this band wanted to do a song like that I would n't want to be in the band . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I would n't want to be anywhere else , ’ she said . |