| Twenty years ago, it was well known as a leafy dormitory town where people aspired to raise their families and commute to work. |
| Certainly, there was the occasional despot who aspired to religious absolutism. |
| A street kid who was once sent to a reformatory, he aspired to be a boxer, enlisted in the navy, and did jail time for a minor robbery. |
| Representing croppers who aspired to the middle class was essential to the sentimentalism of the documentary form. |
| There, she explains, she found friends who had not overachieved in class nor aspired to elected office. |
| Burgess's first love was music and the Manchester-born scribe did not plan on becoming a writer but aspired instead to being a composer. |
