Example sentences of "[noun] who wanted to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the younger kids who wanted to be ultra-mod , exaggerated the look . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Harvey said , ‘ You said projecting ears , bad teeth , long hair , sounded like an Englishman who wanted to be taken for a Yank , bad breath . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had a few tawdry memories — and the constant presence of the woman who wanted to be his wife to deal with . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Like Kubrick before him , he was dealing with a man who wanted to be both the star and the producer . |
| 12 | Letters were quoted from two of the girls who wanted to be moved . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nigel secretly wished that there was the equivalent to a girlie mag for men who wanted to be turned off . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Any past Minister of Health who wanted to be Minister of Health again would have very peculiar tastes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Hopefuls who wanted to be journalists promised bounds of enthusiasm , and optimistically said they would learn the rest . |
| 19 | Wittgenstein was a whizzkid who wanted to be an aviator and ended up teaching philosophy at Cambridge from a green deck chair . |