Example sentences of "would [verb] to [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe he 'd want to be a physician like his father . |
| 2 | Getting Hoomey to swim ten lengths was … well , you 'd need to be a magician , Nails thought , not a teacher . |
| 3 | The leading frog realized that if they were ever going to get to the new flower and survive there , there 'd need to be a lot more than one frog . |
| 4 | ‘ He 'd need to be a fanatic , ’ Keith said grimly . |
| 5 | You , at least , I 'd expect to be a bit of a sport ! ’ |
| 6 | I 'd like to be a policeman , he said . |
| 7 | I think she 'd like to be a nurse , though . ’ |
| 8 | The real mother is only 24 , wears cheap , shabby clothes , has stiff hair like straw , thin legs , says in a quiet moment ‘ I 'd like to be a person like you ’ and smokes her cigarettes too low . |
| 9 | I 'd like to be a dance teacher |
| 10 | I would I 'd like to be a dance teacher when I grow up and in my spare time I would do I would like to do dancing and swimming . |
| 11 | ‘ HE 'D LIKE TO BE A DOCTOR ’ |
| 12 | I 'd like to be a rhythm guitar player in a band ! |
| 13 | I 'd like to be a star for five minutes , but I do n't want to live inside a limousine , I do n't want to have body guards . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd like to be a businesswoman . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd like to be a community worker , something like that — a social worker . |
| 16 | I mean I think it 's the class thing as well really , because I can remember when I was erm leaving school erm and I went to the careers erm teacher for my interview and I said I 'd like to be a journalist and she looked at me and I came from a very poor working class background in Tottenham , and she said ‘ I 'm sure you could be a secretary or a shorthand typist if you really tried ’ . |
| 17 | I 'd like to be a vampire . |
| 18 | In my next incarnation , I 'd like to be the Minister Of ‘ Fun ’ , but with better taste in footy teams ( and women ! ) . |
| 19 | I 'd like to be the leader of some gang , if there 's a good profit to be made in that kind of work . ’ |
| 20 | I 'd hate to be a nuisance to you . ’ |
| 21 | Oh , I 'd hate to be a great-grandmother . ’ |
| 22 | I 'd hate to be the person who has to sit and sit through all of that . |
| 23 | I 'd have to be a saint to stop … ’ |
| 24 | The customers say you 'd have to be a detective to make sense of it . |
| 25 | So really erm er you 'd have to be a bit careful if you were doing that , and er I think the revenue would be pretty iffy about you holding money and paying it to a third party . |
| 26 | He shot her cool glance through his black lashes , and murmured , ‘ You 'd have to be a man to know what I meant . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ There 'd have to be a twist , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Admittedly , the ‘ eat shit — a million flies ca n't be wrong ’ argument never did hold much water , but when every single person in the place is singing ‘ Altogether Now ’ or ‘ Love See No Colour ’ , waving their arms and jumping about , with sweat dripping from the walls , you 'd have to be a hell of a snob not to be slightly moved . |
| 29 | I mean he went to school , he went to oh school , but he lived at Enfield and erm , you 'd have never thought then that he had got it in him and , so dry I said to dad I said he never ought to be a bus driver , cos the things he comes out with , he 'd have to be a comedian , I mean he 's , I mean as er , what , they used to call the comedians did n't they , three or four of them on the telly , and I mean |
| 30 | He 'd have to be a stranger . ’ |