Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not [adv] want [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do not even want to share you with him . ’ |
| 2 | THIS is such a delicious offering , of the kind that makes you chuckle in recollection on the way home , that I do not really want to give the game away by saying too much about what goes on . |
| 3 | I must admit that I do not always want to go to work but once I am there I nearly always have a really good time . |
| 4 | In many service businesses there is a growing number of people who do not necessarily want to progress in traditional career terms . |
| 5 | And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd better try to find the prisoners , ’ said Fenella at last , although she did not really want to leave the comparative safety of the wood-store . |
| 7 | ‘ She said she did not really want to go back to university and my husband told her she did not have to if she did not want to . |
| 8 | She does not principally want to know what the data signify in themselves but how texts reflect processes of communication , and how and why they were used to organise purposeful action , make valid claims , or to express feelings . |
| 9 | For , like the most envious of step-mothers , she does not really want to leave anything worth having to John Major at all ; she wishes to live in Thatcherland , surrounded by mirrors all perpetually claiming her to be the one and only . |
| 10 | If in addition we require that the production function is said to satisfy the Inada ( 1963 ) conditions , but we do not necessarily want to impose these restrictions . |
| 11 | They did not therefore want to suggest of Christ that he was another God , which would create a polytheistic situation . |
| 12 | Creative people are often not business minded , and they do not even want to acquire such skills as self-promotion and image-projection , let alone scrabble about with the nitty-gritty of lucre . |
| 13 | Clearly if users present for treatment in ‘ bad faith ’ , that is , they do not really want to try to come off but are being either coerced or attempting to deceive ‘ authority ’ , then it is unlikely treatment will succeed . |
| 14 | Only his sighting of Kingdom in Lindos five days before Heather 's disappearance did he withhold : he did not yet want to test Zohra 's loyalty too severely . |
| 15 | And if that child is sensitive and caring and does not wish to hurt or disappoint his parents , perhaps he may even enter the medical profession and spend years doing something he does not really want to do while denying himself the opportunity of fulfilling his life in the way he would have chosen . |
| 16 | Clearly Littlewoods , the pools group and retailer , does not believe in either solution — or perhaps it does not really want to sell . |