Example sentences of "wanted to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is headed by the big man 's white man , the Belgian scholar Raymond , who has lost favour with his patron and is sinking into ceremonies of highly-placed sagacity , Salim has an affair with the white man 's white woman , his stylish wife Yvette : radical chic persuades him that he ‘ never wanted to be ordinary again' . |
| 2 | Originally I wanted to be a doctor like my father , but it was soon clear I did n't have the intelligence for that — that 's to say I was n't any good at mathematics and physics and that sort of thing . |
| 3 | He wanted to be a detective . |
| 4 | I could have said anything , made an excuse , but I wanted to be straight and it 's only making things worse . ’ |
| 5 | And Jay , who was no one 's mother nor wanted to be , found herself mothering Lucy . |
| 6 | He could n't be part of their brotherhood but he wanted to be among them . |
| 7 | If the dead person wanted to be buried outside the parish where they lived , the permission of the local clergy must be sought , and can be refused , unless there is space in an existing grave that the family intended for the dead person . |
| 8 | If I wanted to be pretentious , I might call this paper an investigation of the sociology of literature . |
| 9 | He went to the US because ‘ Goldsmith decided that if you wanted to be a capitalist the UK and France were not the places to be ’ . |
| 10 | Charlie Clairmonte was the real winner , though — the one the highlighted products of London 's solariums wanted to be photographed with . |
| 11 | Management were told at the ritual claim submission in London that Ford workers at the 21 plants wanted to be the best paid in the motor industry . |
| 12 | There was a surrealist episode involved a gnarled coach , an attractive young woman who was trying to be a hooker ( rugby variety ) and a small boy who wanted to be a scrum-half . |
| 13 | ‘ I wanted to be different , ’ he admitted . |
| 14 | Since the man was in this incapable state most afternoons , the head rightly wanted to be rid of him . |
| 15 | ‘ I wanted to be a primary teacher , and you have to teach so many different things at that level that it seemed better to study a broader range of subjects , ’ she says . |
| 16 | He wanted to be buried near Temple 's remains . |
| 17 | Any past Minister of Health who wanted to be Minister of Health again would have very peculiar tastes . |
| 18 | There was one lady called ‘ Toss-Off Kate ’ who used to go round the audience and sit beside various isolated gentlemen and ask them if they wanted to be serviced . |
| 19 | It was the temple for everyone who wanted to be involved in something that had nothing to do with what most people thought was ‘ happening ’ in that part of the seventies . |
| 20 | Simple as that And he always wanted to be in on any underground culture going . |
| 21 | For example , he wanted to be a member of as many clubs — of any description — as possible . |
| 22 | I 've had enough of it and I wanted to be alone . |
| 23 | She would see– him occasionally for the rest of her life , and she wanted to be able to chat to him , invite him for more games of chess , more visits to historic gardens . |
| 24 | She wanted to be able to sit there and be like them , to sit there and sip Coke and not to have to worry about whether she would laugh at the right moments . |
| 25 | She just wanted to be free of the burden of her own special powers . |
| 26 | She wanted to be as mature and sensible as Rachel was , she wanted to be reassuring and maternal and all she could do was cling to Maggie and sob and sob . |
| 27 | She wanted to be as mature and sensible as Rachel was , she wanted to be reassuring and maternal and all she could do was cling to Maggie and sob and sob . |
| 28 | So this last time she wanted to be in her office , correct and professional at the right time . |
| 29 | ‘ I was under pressure from my grandfather to become a teacher and that 's the last thing I wanted to be . |
| 30 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |