Example sentences of "want [pron] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a Sunday School teacher erm when I was in my secondary school and I wondered what God would want me to do with my life when I left school and I thought maybe he wants me to be a missionary and I thought it was only teachers and doctors that could be missionaries I was wrong was n't I ? |
| 2 | He wants me to be a witch . |
| 3 | ‘ I want you to be a good little girl and go home to Mummy and Daddy while I finish the season . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've some wonderful news , ’ said Phil , ‘ and I want you to be the first to know . |
| 5 | She is very good at her studies and we want her to be a teacher . |
| 6 | He wants her to be the top model in the world . |
| 7 | I think you 'll find he wants him to be the best player in Scotland and NOT England |
| 8 | I want it to be a surprise . ‘ |
| 9 | ‘ We want it to be a nice family affair . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We do n't want to be a painfully clichéd screaming and shouting band , we want tension but we want it to be a duel thing , two complete opposites fighting against each other wish us cutting through the middle . |
| 11 | To secure that aim we want it to be a condition of sale to any private operator that pension conditions are preserved through the existing pension fund schemes . |
| 12 | We want it to be a day of celebration , but not only that , as with all parties we hope to receive presents , but the presents must be money for Save The Children . |
| 13 | I wish it was Friday I want it to be the weekend man . |
| 14 | Nowhere in particular I just want it to be the weekend so I can lie in bed . |
| 15 | It 's not just that , it 's something that people make , like they make cakes or clubs , or anything else , and this is the interesting thing in religion at the moment , the relativization which scares people , of course , who want it to be an absolute authority which they can just debase themselves before . |
| 16 | B arcelona will be Mota 's last major championship run and she wants it to be the perfect platform to retire from the international scene . |
| 17 | I remember my mother wanting me to be a personal assistant to a managing director . |
| 18 | We do n't want you to be a graphic arts expert or a copy expert we have plenty of those back at head office |
| 19 | She did n't want him to be a man with any redeeming qualities . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't want him to be an actor , ’ said Cis . |
| 21 | She realised they 'd want her to be a double agent , so they 'd have a mole inside American Intelligence . |
| 22 | True , Bernard did want her to be a housewife and mother but at the same time this was Laura 's interpretation of what he wanted and she believed deeply that it was wrong to challenge a husband 's authority . |
| 23 | Salah did not need to persuade himself ; and his Egyptian teacher was also anxious that his daughter should continue — — but he did not want her to be the only one . |
| 24 | If my father had wanted me to be a king , why did n't he become king himself ? |
| 25 | But , as Bruiser might say , if God had wanted me to be a diplomat , he 'd have painted pinstripes down my backside . |
| 26 | It was pointed out that some advisers had wanted there to be a period of in-service training across the borough in order to familiarise teachers with the principles and procedures of self-appraisal . |
| 27 | Mountbatten had wanted him to be a leader of men . |
| 28 | One result of Crawford 's new success was to satisfy his grandmother , Edith Pike , who had always wanted him to be a TV star . |
| 29 | For Papa , too , had wanted her to be a proper young lady after she had reached eighteen , and , for the first time , remorse struck her , for what had happened once that magic date had been reached , and for what had happened after that , culminating in … |
| 30 | ‘ I wanted each chapter to be separate , but I did n't want it to be a set of separate short stories ; so I had to keep an enormous notebook of who they all were and what they were doing at any given time . |