Example sentences of "want to be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Juliana played bass on the recent Lemonheads LP and Evan Dando has returned the favour by guesting on some ‘ Hey Babe ’ tracks ; she says they like making music together but she could n't be a Lemonhead , she wants to be herself . |
| 32 | ‘ He wants to be your friend ! ’ |
| 33 | Sergeant wants to be our friend . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Well she wants to be his curate , er , she does use the curate . |
| 36 | I love him , and he wants to be my husband , mother . |
| 37 | Foster , whose own career started at the tender age of 3 , discovered 9-year-old Adam in a New York classroom : ‘ It was him wanting to be something that drew me , ’ she says . |
| 38 | The Masculine Dilemma : Wanting to Be What the Other Is |
| 39 | The older man explains why : ‘ Take my word for it — homosexuality is wanting to be what the other is ’ ( p. 337 ) . |
| 40 | And when X says homosexuality is wanting to be what the other is , the other is now not the other ( opposite ) sex , but the same sex , and X , as avowed heterosexual , has described his desire to displace the male . |
| 41 | She 'd been wanting to be my best friend for ages . |
| 42 | And there are not many boys who would not want to be him , because A he is attractive , B he can write and act , C he can play the drums and D he is a wild boy and rebel . ’ |
| 43 | They do n't want to be what the presenters do n't want is somebody to be pressing the button , hopping from channel to channel . |
| 44 | In fact I have not met a single teacher who does not want to be their best and do their best for young people , even though what this means in practice is very different for different teachers . |
| 45 | I think that , I think in actual fact , that the only thing really to do is if he does n't want to be himself do something else and then he wo n't do it ever again |
| 46 | An early passage separates this man , who does not want to be nothing , from the trading elders of his family — pessimists who could take risks , and were consoled by their religion . |
| 47 | ‘ If I was any of those people , ’ Ellie concluded , ‘ I 'd want to be one on the steamer , would n't you , Mr O'Hara ? ’ |
| 48 | ‘ Does he want to be one ? ’ |
| 49 | I ai n't the sort to be taken for granted , and I sure as hell do n't want to be someone 's fancy woman . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ Mother , ’ she said , ‘ I left because I want to be a musician , I do n't want to be someone 's mother and someone 's wife . |
| 51 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 52 | ‘ I do n't want to be your secretary ! ’ she said in a voice choked with rage and hostility . |
| 53 | She once said , ‘ I do n't want to be his f-ing mistress , I want to be his wife . ’ |
| 54 | She told him she did n't want to be his agent any longer if he did n't need her advice , though it would be pleasant if he ever wanted her friendship . |
| 55 | He had n't the heart to say he did n't want to be his lordship 's servant or , indeed , anyone 's servant . |
| 56 | I do n't want to be anything . |
| 57 | I mean , he was a comic genius , yet he still wanted to be something he was n't . |
| 58 | When I saw that I wanted to be him , or one of them , or both of them , but anyway I was just so happy to watch them together . |
| 59 | No , he would not hurt her , and now she wanted to be him , to be part of him . |
| 60 | The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects . |