Example sentences of "[verb] not want [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family did not want to talk about politics but they asked about Mrs Zamzam 's health . |
| 2 | The boat was too small for a long journey , and I did not want to die at sea . |
| 3 | I did not want to go to prison again . |
| 4 | ‘ He did not want to go to prison , so he decided to try out one of the well-known methods of avoiding prison by offering his services as a police informer , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 5 | I had tried to tell him that the world had changed drastically , but Bonefish did not want to believe in change . |
| 6 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 7 | On the other hand she did not want to stand until dawn , and she did want the French words to go on being threaded together . |
| 8 | Management did not want to experiment with work reorganization , employee control and management style ‘ in a corner ’ . |
| 9 | Klein et al ( 1965 ) found that many older people hesitated to talk about the past because they did not want to meet with rejection , and that many actually needed help and encouragement to reminisce . |
| 10 | I do not want to go into detail now , but that is certain . |
| 11 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 12 | I do not want to go into detail about how I get on with Michael . |
| 13 | We do not want to talk about south-west regional cream instead of Devonshire produce , roast beef and north-east regional pudding or Greater Manchester hot-pot . |
| 14 | She had not wanted to talk to Finn but she could not help it when he came and sat on the counter . |
| 15 | Suppose a company has a training policy that women over 50 and men over 55 will not be reimbursed correspondence course fees because the company does not want to pay for training unless it can get at least ten years benefit from that training . |
| 16 | Perhaps the relationship is still continuing , but the boyfriend does not want to know about pregnancy . |