Example sentences of "[not/n't] want the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The client did not want the teddy to have glass eyes . |
| 2 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 3 | ‘ We did not want the war , he continued , his voice getting weaker . |
| 4 | He did not want the job at all . |
| 5 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 6 | They had enjoyed his single status and the attention he devoted to them , and frankly did not want the intrusion of a newcomer . |
| 7 | If the farmers did not want the foxes , they would plough up those areas , and some of those other species might entirely disappear . |
| 8 | Miss Norma Scott , aged 23 , failed to report her mother 's death because she did not want the council to discover the squalid conditions at her home in Bilsmoor Avenue , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 9 | Foley does not want the permanent job , saying : ‘ I again regard it as a short-term business . ’ |
| 10 | James Baker , the secretary of state , told Congress recently that his review of Middle East policy convinced him long before the invasion of Kuwait that the ‘ old view that we somehow did not want the Soviets involved is a mistake ’ . |
| 11 | Alas , Mr Shevardnadze speaks almost no English or French and may not want the job . |
| 12 | When George Bush called for Saddam to be deposed , it was clear that : he did not want the Kurds to do it ( that would displease Turkey , Syria , Iran and Russia , and therefore , everybody else ) ; he did not want the Shiites to do it ( that would please Iran and so displease everybody else ) ; and he was not sure if he wanted the Sunnis to do it ( because that might make the Kurds and the Shiites do it , too ) . |
| 13 | When George Bush called for Saddam to be deposed , it was clear that : he did not want the Kurds to do it ( that would displease Turkey , Syria , Iran and Russia , and therefore , everybody else ) ; he did not want the Shiites to do it ( that would please Iran and so displease everybody else ) ; and he was not sure if he wanted the Sunnis to do it ( because that might make the Kurds and the Shiites do it , too ) . |
| 14 | Ask them why this is and they will reply that should they die during the night they do not want the person who finds them to feel they were dirty or slovenly . |
| 15 | What it did not want the public to know was that Blake had been authorised to do shady deals with Russian intelligence , including the betrayal of MI6 agents in East Germany , and the whole plan had backfired because he was a spy already . |
| 16 | They do not want the Palestinians back and a glance at the statistics quickly shows why . |
| 17 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 18 | There were a number of horror stars looking for work who would not want the earth in salaries , and he assembled a notable team of players which included Vincent Price , Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre . |
| 19 | It did not want the political centre of gravity to shift across the river . |
| 20 | Israel did not want the refugees to return because it desperately needed their land and villages to absorb Jewish immigrants . |
| 21 | Israel did not want the refugees back under any conditions and Jordan did not want a refugee body acting independently . |
| 22 | Though you may not want the negative situation to arise and though you may do your best to avoid it , once you know what the worst possible outcome would be and that you could cope with it , a great deal of the anxiety is removed . |
| 23 | If , for any reason , you then decide that you do not want the cover , you may return the Certificate within 14 days for cancellation without any charge . |
| 24 | Your Insurance Certificate will be forwarded to you as soon as the Home Improvement Loan arrangements have been completed but if for any reason , you then decide you do not want the cover , you may return your Certificate within 14 days for cancellation without any charge . |
| 25 | We do not want the additional noise , traffic and use of our access road . |
| 26 | An out of court settlement of $50,000 was paid since Jax did not want the publicity . |
| 27 | But then I might have a passenger whose company I am enjoying and do not want the intrusion . |
| 28 | Relatives had taken on the boys of her family but did not want the responsibility and lower wages of the girls . |
| 29 | For thoroughly understandable reasons , however , it was not to these people that Hitler turned for his image of the German : he did not want the average German for the SS , he wanted supermen for the conquest of the east . |
| 30 | Some have become prepared to forgo promotion if it means too much disruption of home and family and if they personally do not want the commuting life . |