Example sentences of "who wanted to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a surrealist episode involved a gnarled coach , an attractive young woman who was trying to be a hooker ( rugby variety ) and a small boy who wanted to be a scrum-half . |
| 2 | Any past Minister of Health who wanted to be Minister of Health again would have very peculiar tastes . |
| 3 | It was the temple for everyone who wanted to be involved in something that had nothing to do with what most people thought was ‘ happening ’ in that part of the seventies . |
| 4 | It was n't long before we realised there were many other talents around who wanted to be part of it . |
| 5 | But these estimates were , of course , based on the short-term , very non-strategic demands of investors who wanted to be assured of a good return on their money if they bought shares in the industry . |
| 6 | Nigel secretly wished that there was the equivalent to a girlie mag for men who wanted to be turned off . |
| 7 | But for the most part people recited their descent and their poems , recounted old events , in the company of people who wanted to be told who their ancestors were , what they did , what heroisms they accomplished . |
| 8 | The record number of people who did get involved , or who wanted to be kept in touch , generated a vast workload for the inquiry bureaucracy , in reality a handful of hard-pressed individuals . |
| 9 | And the younger kids who wanted to be ultra-mod , exaggerated the look . |
| 10 | On the question of the miners ' strike , one study refers to an episode in South Wales where the owner of a bus company was phoned by strikers who wanted to be taken to Derbyshire . |
| 11 | Wittgenstein was a whizzkid who wanted to be an aviator and ended up teaching philosophy at Cambridge from a green deck chair . |
| 12 | Letters were quoted from two of the girls who wanted to be moved . |
| 13 | Her instinct was to drive — to get in the car , go home , and be safe — resume the life of an apprentice who wanted to be champion jockey . |
| 14 | Elizabeth was always delightful with pleasantly smiling people who wanted to be pleasant — and it is reposeful when one does not have to talk or understand their language . |
| 15 | Like Kubrick before him , he was dealing with a man who wanted to be both the star and the producer . |
| 16 | By rights they should now be quietly decomposing in Manchester , having tried out their experimental rhythm rock surrealism only to discover that self-analytical dance with guitars could not really compete with belching ego-Mancs who wanted to be adored or abhorred . |
| 17 | Hopefuls who wanted to be journalists promised bounds of enthusiasm , and optimistically said they would learn the rest . |
| 18 | The girls would forgive fat little Dr Curtis , the S.M.O. , with his thinning hair and glasses for ignoring them , as who wanted to be noticed by Chubby Curtis ? |
| 19 | Gilligan 's most famous example is that of two white , middle-class , relatively non-gender-stereotyped 11-year-olds : Amy , who wanted to be a scientist , and Jake , who wanted to be an English teacher . |
| 20 | Gilligan 's most famous example is that of two white , middle-class , relatively non-gender-stereotyped 11-year-olds : Amy , who wanted to be a scientist , and Jake , who wanted to be an English teacher . |
| 21 | This is probably not quite the ideological paradox it sounds : it just means that she supported the politicians and parties in fragmented Boiotia who would tend to keep Boiotia fragmented , that is , the Thebes-haters , the local men who wanted to be big frogs in small and separate Boiotian ponds . |
| 22 | Next came Peter , who wanted to be an engineer when he grew up . |
| 23 | Manjiku was the creature who wanted to be a woman ; the beast that stole children for his own because he could not give birth to them himself . |
| 24 | He was a weak , cowardly man , she reflected , who wanted to be popular with everyone , yet whose deep insecurity drove him to self-righteous pomposity and chill cruelty . |
| 25 | But then again , who wanted to be wise ? |
| 26 | Was n't it time she stopped believing in love since she had no evidence to suggest that such an unselfish , uplifting emotion existed outside the imagination of those who wanted to be duped ? |
| 27 | The new woman who wanted to be called mother put a stack of blouses and skirts out for me , like you might give milk to a stray cat . |
| 28 | Harvey said , ‘ You said projecting ears , bad teeth , long hair , sounded like an Englishman who wanted to be taken for a Yank , bad breath . |
| 29 | But time was pressing on , and Gould , who wanted to be back in New South Wales for the breeding season — he had assured Dr Bennett that he would ‘ be in Sydney not later than the middle of Augt ’ — returned directly to Adelaide . |
| 30 | Bobbie Cole was more cheerful , and chatted about her children , in particular her eldest child , a girl of eight named Sally , who wanted to be a ballerina . |