Example sentences of "[prep] [be] a doctor " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tradition that teaching is part of being a doctor rather assumes that everyone can and should teach . |
| 2 | What you do for the first two years is you learn all the theory of being a doctor and you go and you have to between eight of you , learn all about a body you have one body between of you and you learn all about all the muscles and the nerves |
| 3 | ‘ The truth is , I 've broken one of the first rules of being a doctor . |
| 4 | Already he seemed to have the reassuring kind of manner one associated with being a doctor . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At least you would have to be a doctor to say so , and not a politician or an academic . ) |
| 7 | They wanted me to be a secretary and they wanted my sister to be a doctor or something medical . |
| 8 | When we went to visit relations my dad would say ‘ She is going to be a doctor and she is going to be a secretary . ’ |
| 9 | Joanne , now 17 and doing A-levels — she wants to be a doctor — still vaguely remembers Dohti and , according to her mother , keeps an open mind on the subject of reincarnation . |
| 10 | If anyone is educated with a goal in mind , to be a doctor , a lawyer or a computer programmer , then what this person is experiencing , whatever he , or his teachers , may think , is not education , but something else . ’ |
| 11 | You know I am going to be a doctor , Mufundishi . |
| 12 | Having secretly decided during his childhood to be a doctor , he had to give the idea up due to his deafness and decided to take up a farming career , enrolling at the Elsenberg Agricultural College , 30 miles from Cape Town . |
| 13 | ‘ My father , who was a professional cricketer , desperately wanted me to be a doctor . |
| 14 | Linda Lamont , director of the Patients ' Association , added : ‘ Anybody can put up a brass plate and claim to be a doctor in the private sector . |
| 15 | But the A-level student , who wants to be a doctor , ran into trouble when one event bombed and he began to slip into debt , owing hundreds of pounds . |
| 16 | ‘ The only thing I want in life is to be a doctor . ’ |
| 17 | Virtually , every West Indian family tells their sons and daughters that they have to be a doctor or a lawyer . |
| 18 | In medical education there is a potential conflict between the desire to provide a broad educational experience and the need to ensure a technical training in how to be a doctor . |
| 19 | Any patient seeing this man would have to check his claims to be a doctor themselves . |
| 20 | ‘ And besides ’ , said the visiting officer , ‘ how do you argue with a man who 's studying to be a doctor of philosophy ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ HE 'D LIKE TO BE A DOCTOR ’ |
| 22 | Patrick did n't need to be a doctor to know that his mother was drinking herself into an early grave . |
| 23 | Milhaez cradled his daughter in his lap , the one who was to be a doctor in England . |
| 24 | Longing as usual with her spirit to enact the role that her flesh shrank from , she pined to be a doctor . |
| 25 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 26 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 27 | Here in Portugal he pretends not to be a doctor , probably wisely , and steers well clear of anyone who is sick or injured , Lourdes with her dramatic fevers or Tolo knock-kneed with gout , even Rosa 's scrapes and sprains . |
| 28 | If I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer , I could be one tomorrow . |
| 29 | Two boys now come to the nursery voluntarily at lunchtimes , and one sixth-former who wants to be a doctor decided , after two months here , to specialise in paediatrics . |
| 30 | ‘ Alfred very much wanted to be a doctor and father encouraged him . |