Example sentences of "want [prep] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also may be the first single to have celebrated the guitarist as icon and as such has been the target of many awful cover versions by people like Michael J Fox , who want to be guitar heroes . |
| 2 | I think my first issue was about September 1970 and do I recall a two-page debate along the lines of ‘ Does Bob Dylan Really Want To Be Elvis Presley ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ They wo n't do it — they all want to be air hostesses these days . ’ |
| 4 | Sequent is aiming the product at users that want to be Teradata owners but can not afford it . |
| 5 | ‘ The truth about chaps who want to be father figures , ’ remarked Lili , ‘ is that they actually want a mummy figure themselves . |
| 6 | But this ‘ labour market ’ has resulted in scarcities for the least desirable jobs and regions ( even despite generous wage incentives not enough people want to be coal miners in Siberia ) . |
| 7 | But Phillip Chubb is in our group And he wants to be Robin Hood And Ann Boot is sulking because she 's not with her friend And I do n't see why I should be wood . |
| 8 | Offer him the choice of any face and he wants to be Paul Newman , not Broderick Crawford : ‘ Would n't everybody choose someone better looking ? ’ |
| 9 | She wants to be Violet Elizabeth Bott ; the screeching , lithping , secretly smart brat who hung around with the nice-but-dim lads until she annoyed them into letting her join the band . |
| 10 | Fred finds out why Garry Schofield wants to be Leeds captain again |
| 11 | Jeff Coons , one of the young bad boys of current art , wants to be porno star next . |
| 12 | He wants to be Northern Ireland secretary . |
| 13 | ‘ We did n't want to be press barons ’ , observes Miles . |
| 14 | They did n't want to be press barons , says Miles , they wanted a community paper , and it had n't even been easy to find an editor amongst the founding group , preoccupied as they were with art galleries and bookshops , theatre companies and poetry , and preoccupied also with that sense of freedom , and the breaking down of national barriers which had accompanied the explosion of travel in the 1960s . |
| 15 | He did n't want to be Florence Nightingale and the legless lieutenant , he wanted to be Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid . |
| 16 | The engine will also be offering lessons on the footplate to all those who really did want to be engine drivers when they grew up , with the help of an experienced fireman . |
| 17 | Did Green want to be news editor ? asked Marcuson , by now eased into the editor 's chair . |
| 18 | I said , ‘ I do n't want to be Lord Mayor of London . |
| 19 | That they did not want to be wage slaves in a factory . |
| 20 | I do n't want to be mister average so we 'll go for the fifty five . |
| 21 | Pepsi and Shirlie may not have reached George 's superstar status but they know the direction they 're moving in — ‘ We do n't want to be bubblegum one-hit-wonders . |
| 22 | Unlike most of my contemporaries , who at a similar age had wanted to be train drivers , I wanted to fly . |
| 23 | ‘ Kirk wanted to be Burt Lancaster — he 's wanted to be Burt Lancaster all his life , ’ he said . |
| 24 | There was a time when most young boys wanted to be engine drivers when they grew up . |
| 25 | Her instinct was to drive — to get in the car , go home , and be safe — resume the life of an apprentice who wanted to be champion jockey . |
| 26 | John : I wanted to be mid-Atlantic man Now I 'm going bloody |
| 27 | He was n't all that sure he wanted to be Mr Beta . |
| 28 | Other boys wanted to be the Beatles ; Lloyd Webber wanted to be Richard Rodgers . |
| 29 | The young Edwyn Collins wanted to be Holden Caulfield . |
| 30 | ‘ Kirk wanted to be Burt Lancaster — he 's wanted to be Burt Lancaster all his life , ’ he said . |