Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] want [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can not afford or do not want new furniture , then start to attack the soft furnishings . |
| 2 | Cos you ca n't I do n't want that on the tape . |
| 3 | You see they do n't want finicky stuff , they want er a large pay packet fo , er stamping er envelopes . |
| 4 | But I mean often women would say , what can I do , I do n't want any more babies , what can I do ? |
| 5 | Well do the best you can er I do n't want exact words obviously but what was the burden of what he was the gist , the effects of what he was saying ? |
| 6 | Indeed Bevin did not want joint bases in peacetime : these might simply provoke the USSR . |
| 7 | Wilson 's disinclination to protest against the inquiry probably arose from a reasonable belief that any senior politician who did not want such an inquiry had something discreditable to hide . |
| 8 | though he did not want Lindy to know that they listened until they heard a noise again Then Bill laughed . |
| 9 | They did not want outside intervention in the collective bargaining process from representatives of more broadly-based trade unions since such interference could be inimical to the preservation of paternalistic employee relations within the undertaking ( Okochi et al . , |
| 10 | I certainly did not want existing company schemes to collapse and saw no reason why this should happen . |
| 11 | On the one hand , they did not want working class hooligans swarming all over the country causing mayhem . |
| 12 | Women compositors did not want equal pay , she wrote , for no girl of sense puts herself on the level of a comp all round but if the division of labour assigns her a task she can perform , what reason is there she should not do so ? |
| 13 | But Phoebe had felt a harsh jealousy that she did not like in herself when she realised how well Lisa and Rachel got on : she did not want that . |
| 14 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
| 15 | I did not want that , but I believed that the top salary awards were so out of line with what we were proposing in the rest of the public sector that in the real world of industrial relations it made my job infinitely more difficult . |
| 16 | I did not want that . |
| 17 | He did not want that to happen again ; perhaps , he reasoned , it was why he had never asked her to move in with him . |
| 18 | Just as the creoles did not want good government manned by the civil servants of an absolute monarch , so they would not accept rule by a metropolitan parliament , managed by Spanish liberals . |
| 19 | No , he did not want this strange , wild boy at all . |
| 20 | The US did not want this and refused to sign . |
| 21 | The president did not want this to happen . ’ |
| 22 | The president did not want this to happen . |
| 23 | I did not want any stranger thinking I could be keen on anything my sister was stupid enough to find interesting . |
| 24 | It did not want any kind of disorder to be filmed , including unparliamentary behaviour by Members ( or even Members trying to attract attention by wearing fancy dress or clothes bearing slogans ) , and it therefore recommended that in all cases of disruption or disorder the director should cut to wide-angle shots , which would not show the offending incident , or to the occupant of the Chair . |
| 25 | Ivan Cooper asked the crowd to behave responsibly and stressed that NICRA did not want any violence or bloodshed . |
| 26 | The organizers hired the local library for the occasion and decided , on account of tension at previous gatherings , that they did not want any police officers present . |
| 27 | He did not want any trouble in his respectable hostelry , and both customers were touchy . |
| 28 | Under fire for his handling of the economy and his personal finances , Mr Lamont said he did not want any other Government job . |
| 29 | He determined the framework and the broad outline , brought 10 specialists with him and acquired a small bureau operation Howden did not want any more . |
| 30 | He did not want any services and did not see counselling help as a service a social worker might offer , nor did he want to share any grieving for his wife . |