Example sentences of "[adv] want to be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of what they ought to do is more subtle and will come to them only if they love and trust their parents enough to want to be like them . |
| 2 | But our sons now do not want to be like us . " |
| 3 | Boys will usually want to be like their fathers when they grow up , girls to be like their mothers . |
| 4 | I 've always wanted to be like him . |
| 5 | He does n't really want to be like that — he 'd rather like to be a baseball star or a Sumo wrestler . |
| 6 | I do n't want to be like a medieval inquisitor . |
| 7 | ‘ She was a simple commodity with a squeaky-clean public image and there was n't still is n't — a kid who did n't want to be like her or a parent who would discourage their children from admiring her . ’ |
| 8 | At the same time I did n't want to be like them . |
| 9 | Some people of forty are dead already , fixed like waxworks ; I did n't want to be like that . |
| 10 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 11 | " I do n't want to be like other women and cheat you . |
| 12 | I do n't want to be like a film star , but I do want a better quality of life and I 've got that with H R T ! |
| 13 | ‘ I 've never worked with either my sister or my dad — I would n't want to be like certain families in this business , ’ she says , just a touch scornfully . |
| 14 | we do n't want to be like these ones that erm got to know and it , and er that have done away , it says erm that 's where the gnashing and at the tooth will be thrown outside |
| 15 | The parent may either emulate this approach or completely refute it and feel that they never want to be like their parents . |
| 16 | I 've been very poor , I 've cleaned toilets for Mecca , I 've slept on Euston station , and I never want to be like that again . |