Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] wanted to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Husayn twins wanted to be together . |
| 2 | Eva Maria wanted to be a teacher and was offered a place , after a couple of years , at St Katherine 's Training College . |
| 3 | And if Marilyn Monroe wanted to be movies today , she 'd have to go on serious diet first . |
| 4 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 5 | Other boys wanted to be the Beatles ; Lloyd Webber wanted to be Richard Rodgers . |
| 6 | The young Edwyn Collins wanted to be Holden Caulfield . |
| 7 | WHEN Norman Lamont wanted to be untied from the scandal of renting his house to a ‘ sex therapist ’ , he signed libel lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck 's firm for £240 an hour . |
| 8 | I think Sharon Stone wanted to be Wilma . |
| 9 | If there was news of Claire Fraser , Joe Burns wanted to be the first to hear it . |
| 10 | ‘ Maria Luisa wanted to be out of the capital , ’ he told her . |
| 11 | Tante Antoinette wanted to be a nun too , did n't she ? she remarked : when she was young . |