Example sentences of "[noun] wanted to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was that the situation Neil wanted to be in ? |
| 2 | Bott wanted to be part of this new success story , along with the City people , young designers , clothes merchants , media persons and trendy local-authority and institutional workers — the Yuppies and Yeppies . |
| 3 | Branwell wanted to be a writer , so he wrote to writers ; but not many of them wrote back . |
| 4 | The fans wanted to be moved by Layla and Wonderful Tonight , songs about Eric Clapton 's life and suffering . |
| 5 | The industry wanted to be able to use the funds that it had generated to invest in youth training . |
| 6 | Dona wanted to be alone and was bored with social graces . |
| 7 | Israel , whose new ambassador in Washington had complained to the press on February 14th that America was giving Israel the ‘ runaround ’ on housing aid for Soviet immigrants ( the administration wanted to be sure that $400m in loan guarantees , now agreed , would not be used to settle immigrants in the West Bank ) . |
| 8 | Dot wanted to be back in their room at Mrs Parvis 's . |
| 9 | It was difficult to tell at that point how many people in the department wanted to be included , but it did seem likely that some would . |
| 10 | Winter was coming , and eagles wanted to be out there on the winds , planning , checking over territory , grouping after the isolations of spring and summer mating and rearing . |
| 11 | Heath wanted to be , in machinery-of-government and Cabinet terms , the Lloyd George of the 1970s . |
| 12 | None of the miners wanted to be a target . |
| 13 | Other boys wanted to be the Beatles ; Lloyd Webber wanted to be Richard Rodgers . |
| 14 | Parents wanted to be part of the decision-making and did not feel that they were . |
| 15 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 16 | Léonie wanted to be found out . |
| 17 | There was a time when almost every small child wanted to be a train driver when they grew up . |
| 18 | ‘ Gavin wanted to be everyone 's favourite person . |
| 19 | Frank wanted to be needed , that was it . |
| 20 | Then , from nowhere , a kind of despair seemed to settle on him , and he felt lonely and used and cheated , and for a moment wanted to be far away from this slim , black-haired woman with her tense white face and her slender fingers . |
| 21 | Before her accident the plaintiff wanted to be a conference organiser and had intended to go into hospitality management as a career . |
| 22 | Elinor wanted to be Cleopatra . |
| 23 | Even though active support for antislavery organisations declined after 1840 , leaders of abolitionist organisations wanted to be recognised as speaking for a reflexive , if latent , antislavery sentiment . |
| 24 | The Samaritans wanted to be treated as Sidonians , just as the inhabitants of Jerusalem were now treated as Antiochenes . |
| 25 | Management were told at the ritual claim submission in London that Ford workers at the 21 plants wanted to be the best paid in the motor industry . |
| 26 | ‘ Miranda wanted to be with you today , but Dr Craig-Dunlop wants you to settle in quickly , with no excitement . |
| 27 | WHEN Norman Lamont wanted to be untied from the scandal of renting his house to a ‘ sex therapist ’ , he signed libel lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck 's firm for £240 an hour . |
| 28 | Blanche wanted to be clever and memorise the way his finger moved across the numbers but she could not maintain the concentration after the first four . |
| 29 | If the dead person wanted to be buried outside the parish where they lived , the permission of the local clergy must be sought , and can be refused , unless there is space in an existing grave that the family intended for the dead person . |
| 30 | I think the committee as a whole wanted to be cautious because as has been said earlier our main prime responsibility must be to those who need rest home or nursing home care and have nobody else to fund them . |