Example sentences of "[verb] n't really want " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well my husband and I were married in nineteen forty four , you see , and er as you see I go every year and it 's nineteen eighty six , so therefore erm I you see I , I do n't really want people to know my age |
| 2 | So I I 'd I , I do n't really want one ! |
| 3 | She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to . |
| 4 | I did n't really want to marry her or nothing , but I thought , you know , that we was friends like . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ What can I do for you ? ’ and I said ‘ I did n't really want to get out of anything ; I 'm OK . ’ |
| 6 | He did n't really want outsiders to know why he was there . |
| 7 | I did n't really want to be a pretty little girl then . |
| 8 | He did n't really want her to hear her mother being strangled . |
| 9 | Anne realized that she did n't really want to leave she 'd just wanted a happier home . |
| 10 | What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments . |
| 11 | She did n't really want him , of course but she simply had to prove to herself that he would prefer her to Sally , given the choice . |
| 12 | ‘ I ought to get some sleep , ’ he said , but the coke had taken hold , it was lifting him , and he had such a good seat at the circus , he did n't really want to leave . |
| 13 | The woman at the hotel did n't really want kids and with summer holidays approaching could get a better rate for her rooms . |
| 14 | Devereux said : ‘ Widnes did n't really want me to go and there were problems with insurance guarantees . |
| 15 | Benny did n't really want her to come to the party , but for once Mother had been insistent . |
| 16 | I suppose some people might have but I think I did n't really want to face up to the fact that he might have been that man on the beach . ’ |
| 17 | This is a step I did n't really want to take as the text books and scientific articles indicate that the fry feed on a mucus secretion on the parents flanks which is necessary to their health . |
| 18 | Jack 's tactic was to keep as far away from his team-mates as possible — not difficult , because he was hitting the ball pretty straight and the Sunningdale amateur , who was also fairly straight , did n't really want to talk to a pro golfer . |
| 19 | ‘ We had a flood of enquiries when Barclaycard introduced its annual charge — mostly from the sort of customers we did n't really want , ’ says Ian Bell , managing director of Town & Country . |
| 20 | He even bullied the women who came into his shop , selling them things they did n't really want to buy and refusing to stock things that they did . |
| 21 | The farmer did n't actually refuse to take Mister Johnny but he made it clear he did n't really want him . |
| 22 | It had to be done through the American Consulate at Marseilles , sixty miles there and back , she was away most of the day ; I was glad of that too , we did n't really want to be alone with each other just then . |
| 23 | ‘ Considering you did n't really want to go . ’ |
| 24 | I did n't really want it . |
| 25 | As far as I was concerned , a lot of them did n't really want to know . |
| 26 | The Doctor could n't quite make out what it was that had moved , but going by the gelid fluidity of the apparent movement , he did n't really want to . |
| 27 | So when I was actually pregnant , although it would be fairer on me and the baby and everybody concerned if I did have an abortion , he made me know that he did n't really want me to have one . |
| 28 | I did n't really want to start a relationship like that . |
| 29 | Tracy was persuaded , but as time went on , decided she did n't really want to be with him , so she left him . |
| 30 | So if you did n't really want to embark on that treatment we again , use the waxing treatment as for the eyebrows , we use ca ho , hot wax on the area that you need , on the chin , on the upper lip . |