Example sentences of "wanted [pron] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm an old-fashioned textual critic , not a biographer — I do n't go in for this sort of — it was n't profit — I 'll put them back next week — I wanted them to be a secret . |
| 2 | Whether conscious or not of their own envy , the people in the most difficulty are those who feel they have been born the wrong sex — suspicious , or even quite clear , that their parents desperately wanted them to be the boy or girl they were not . |
| 3 | They wanted me to be a secretary and they wanted my sister to be a doctor or something medical . |
| 4 | ‘ My father , who was a professional cricketer , desperately wanted me to be a doctor . |
| 5 | My parents wanted me to be a schoolmaster , but I married into the dry-cleaning business . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 8 | She narrowed her eyes and added in clipped tones , ‘ I know you always thought of this as your home and that you never wanted me to be a part of it . |
| 9 | You talked about being erm you know , if God wanted you to be a missionary you 'd got to be a , a sort of teacher or a doctor , do you see your , your role in Harlow as , as a missionary role or as a doctor ? |
| 10 | ‘ Nicole and I are getting married , ’ said Sir Vivien , ‘ and we wanted you to be the first to know . |
| 11 | But I wanted you to be the first I told . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I never wanted there to be a war between us , Ingrid . |
| 13 | She wanted there to be a sunset and she wanted there to be the passion and the glory and the undying love . |
| 14 | She wanted there to be a sunset and she wanted there to be the passion and the glory and the undying love . |
| 15 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 16 | She had only been mad at Dan , because he had brought up Patrick 's name when she wanted him to be a secret . |
| 17 | Connery goes visiting his old school in Edinburgh , which is not in the prettiest part , and the kids ask him how much he earns and whether his mam wanted him to be an actor and whether he was good at school . |
| 18 | If he wanted her to be a top model , she 'd behave like one . |
| 19 | That he wanted her to be a nuisance ? |
| 20 | He wanted her to be a real mother , not like Lucy . |
| 21 | He likes all that , the cars and people calling him Minister , but he wanted her to be the good politician 's wife , doing his entertaining . |
| 22 | I could n't help but think he wanted it to be a theme park . |
| 23 | She said nothing to her family , she wanted it to be a surprise . |
| 24 | It was Willie 's birthday on Thursday and he wanted it to be a surprise . |
| 25 | If you wanted it to be a perfectly white background then you would also use bits of white tissue paper for a final polish on the surface . |
| 26 | He wanted it to be a surprise for you , and I 'm only telling you in advance in case — in case you should think it might have been me . " |
| 27 | I wanted it to be a birthday present , Venice I mean . " |
| 28 | I wanted it to be a surprise — a present . |
| 29 | ‘ He wanted it to be a murder ? |
| 30 | I gave him a draft of the first chapter and explained that I wanted it to be the sort of book that would sell in airport book stalls . |