Example sentences of "[noun] i wanted to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ One of the reasons I wanted to be here was to copperfasten , I hope , the central role that architecture in general , and especially the architecture of the last 300 years has in our cultural and heritage policy . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel fine and in any case I wanted to be here in person and not have to watch you on television . |
| 3 | Sometimes I told Eva I wanted to be a photographer or an actor , or perhaps a journalist , preferably a foreign correspondent in a war zone , Cambodia or Belfast . |
| 4 | ‘ When I was a girl I wanted to be an actress . |
| 5 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |
| 6 | and well I 've , I 've had a sort of split feeling I wanted to be here |
| 7 | ‘ I was under pressure from my grandfather to become a teacher and that 's the last thing I wanted to be . |
| 8 | And that 's when my life changed , that 's when I was let into the world I wanted to be in and got paid to do something creative , which I 'd always wanted to do . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ An example : the Dalek city I wanted to be a complex structure of low metal towers , ramps and spires , quite detailed , possibly with some kind of perimeter wall or fence surrounding it . |
| 10 | When I got out of high school I wanted to be a caddie , so I got some bags at my local club . |
| 11 | There was no way I wanted to be robbed again and I determined if I had to stand in a queue it would be with this chain in my hand . |
| 12 | I was confused at school because although I did n't like the way we would dismiss the teachers and what they were trying to teach us , at the same time I wanted to be the ace yob . |
| 13 | I mean , I remember when I told my mother I wanted to be a designer she said , ‘ Oh , that is a good thing , because it shows you are not a snob ’ . ’ |