Example sentences of "who want to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They range variously from Fokine 's Pierrot in Le Carnaval who only wants ‘ one kiss ’ and his puppet Petrushka who wants to be free to Ashton 's Alain mentioned above and MacMillan 's Bratfisch in Mayerling . |
| 2 | demanding to know the date of the party — which was unanswerable , since no one knew when Karl would be back from Dresden — and either confirming that , anyway , if it was to be on a week-end they would be resent — or not Frau Nordern was annoyed b the refusals but Herr Nordern had a drier view ‘ Most of them have hardly heard of Karl , ’ he said ‘ and anyway it is n't everyone who wants to be seen meeting … . |
| 3 | Who wants to be normal ? |
| 4 | We played ‘ Who Wants To Be A Millionaire ’ during the collection at one big conference . |
| 5 | Who wants to be involved with a boring organisation ? |
| 6 | ‘ As a serious politician who wants to be where the power is , you have to follow it . |
| 7 | Nicholas Woodeson combines high comedy with cold menace as Berlin Bertie , the secret policeman who follows Rosa to England ; Kevin Allen is stubbornly endearing as Alice 's dim , foul-mouthed and devoted toy boy ; and Susan Lynch gives a touching performance as a waif-like Gothette who wants to be a mime artist , poor thing . |
| 8 | Towards the end of the story , Gowie does start to become much nicer — not because of people threatening him , but because he meets somebody with a stronger personality who wants to be his friend . |
| 9 | The implications of this peculiar kind of vested interest , interest in one 's public image , for drama are probably obvious — the participant who wants to be seen as a good actor , for example . |
| 10 | Then we can invade their villages , burn them out , rape their women — and kill any Jew-boy who wants to be a hero . ’ |
| 11 | It is easy to keep quiet — who wants to be thought of as someone with dirty habits or as a woman-hater ? |
| 12 | His plight affects us like the unwilling martyrdom of a saint who wants to be like other men . |
| 13 | Who wants to be the Timothy Leary of Loco Weed ? |
| 14 | But the A-level student , who wants to be a doctor , ran into trouble when one event bombed and he began to slip into debt , owing hundreds of pounds . |
| 15 | Who wants to be second ? |
| 16 | ‘ You play the outside of a guy who wants to be hip and happening . |
| 17 | Expectations that the child should hold the parent 's hand while crossing the road , or sit in the safety seat in the car , can be met by great outbursts of temper in the confident 2-year-old who wants to be totally independent . |
| 18 | Who wants to be the disco king ? |
| 19 | Who wants to be the disco kings ? |
| 20 | Indian English has developed a syntax and vocabulary of its own : the Bombayite who wants to be sure that ‘ You live in Colaba , do n't you ? ’ is likelier to ask , ‘ You are staying Colaba-side , is n't it ? ’ |
| 21 | I shall I daresay finally learn that he who wants to be loved by everyone and wants more than it is his right to have ends up with Nothing . |
| 22 | ‘ Who wants to be younger , Doctor ? ’ |
| 23 | In 1850 , from Constantinople , Flaubert announces three projects : ‘ Une nuit de Don Juan ’ ( which reaches the planning stage ) ; ‘ Anubis ’ , the story of ‘ the woman who wants to be fucked by a god ’ ; and ‘ My Flemish novel about the young girl who dies a virgin and a mystic … in a little provincial town , at the bottom of a garden planted with cabbages and bulrushes … |
| 24 | Two boys now come to the nursery voluntarily at lunchtimes , and one sixth-former who wants to be a doctor decided , after two months here , to specialise in paediatrics . |
| 25 | And who wants to be that ? |
| 26 | If you are a Windows user who wants to be able to use your dBASE format files ( and applications ) under Windows , you will not find it very easy . |
| 27 | ‘ The Army provides excellent training for a young man or woman who wants to be a caterer , particularly a military caterer , ’ said Colonel Wilkinson . |
| 28 | It 's Aunt Becky , who wants to be rescued from an undiluted dose of Minna . |
| 29 | For too long we have regarded the pound as sacrosanct , but who wants to be paid in funny money that is for ever being debased by inflation and buffeted on the financial and foreign exchange markets ? |
| 30 | A scientist who wants to be a waitress for the summer . |