Example sentences of "he wanted to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to be a detective . |
| 2 | He could n't be part of their brotherhood but he wanted to be among them . |
| 3 | He wanted to be buried near Temple 's remains . |
| 4 | For example , he wanted to be a member of as many clubs — of any description — as possible . |
| 5 | He wanted to be chief engineer of Aston Martin . |
| 6 | He wanted to be ‘ an important chap like Morris , ’ always his great hero . |
| 7 | Though not sure whether he wanted to be a painter or a writer he knew he was no Haydon , the fashionable golden boy of the day , the ‘ angry young man of romantic art . ’ |
| 8 | In the course of it Edward Lucas , a BBC Prague correspondent , asked Havel directly if he wanted to be president . |
| 9 | There was an eloquence about his hand movements and I realized also that he could be a dancer if he wanted to be . |
| 10 | At the end , he wanted to be on his own , so he 'd encourage her to go out on her own and go loony with me . |
| 11 | He wanted to be called when you arrived . |
| 12 | He wanted to be a winner rather than a good loser . |
| 13 | He wanted to be with her so much that he could hardly breathe . |
| 14 | He wanted to be quite sure of not missing anything that might be going on there . |
| 15 | It was evident that he wanted to be not simply in the forest , but somehow at one with it ; rooted in the same fertile earth . |
| 16 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 17 | Nor could the Reverend Baron but he left immediately he heard in May that the Grand Duke of Tuscany had abdicated : that , he vowed , was the clearest possible indication of open war and he wanted to be away . |
| 18 | After 27 years at BTR 's electrical wholesaling subsidiary Newey & Eyre , 46-year-old Alan knew he had a worthwhile asset in his preserved pension and he wanted to be sure he got the best value . |
| 19 | He wanted to be apart from the humiliation he had engineered . |
| 20 | Endill did not know if he wanted to be hard but was too tired to argue . |
| 21 | He wanted to be friends with everyone and everything , reassure them that he was a nice person and that the Bookman would be alright . |
| 22 | He wanted to be alone down here so he could steal . |
| 23 | He said he wanted to be pleased at this news , but had been unable to confirm whether it was true or not , since Susan had not requested assistance in the boy 's upbringing , nor did she intend to call on him for support . |
| 24 | He had a picture of himself being friendly and relaxed — normal , like the others ; he wanted to be popular , or at least to have one friend , but the ideal withered as soon as he tried to achieve it . |
| 25 | The last place he wanted to be was in the car . |
| 26 | ‘ He was young man , he wanted to be architecto . |
| 27 | The night before his death I spent more than an hour with him and we spoke quietly of the future ; he wanted to be sure that Ray and I would look after Margaret , our step-mother , whom we had come to admire greatly for her devotion to Father . |
| 28 | When 14 he was apprenticed to the Edinburgh firm of Norie , who were house painters — hardly an ideal apprenticeship for what he wanted to be . |
| 29 | Parker screamed ; he did not care ; he wanted to be heard , but , and he screamed some more , no one came running . |
| 30 | He wanted to be sure he could return to London if he did n't like his new job . |