Example sentences of "did not want to be [art] " in BNC.

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1 Maggie did not want to be a crazy person .
2 Bought up Catholic Irish in New South Wales , he spent six years in a seminary before concluding he did not want to be a priest .
3 However , if what I had seen take place between him and Otto was to be a habit , I did not want to be a spectator to it .
4 She knew she did not want to be an employee or to set up on her own and accepted a position as Recorder on the South-East Circuit while looking at the appointments pages in the newspapers .
5 This concession was ignored by the other resistance parties , and Hun Sen said in a speech at the end of the month that he would not accept Sihanouk as SNC chair and did not want to be an SNC vice-chair .
6 When he was asked why he himself did not become one , he replied that all men wanted to be Senators but he did not ; he did not want to be the same as other men who were as the uncoloured cloth of the Toga but he wished to be the red , that small and brilliant portion which causes the rest to be comely and beautiful .
7 We did not want to be the cause of friction ; but as we were unable to ascertain what the Club had in mind by way of arrangements , we proposed tea or dinner , or , if he were not being entertained in the evening , both .
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