Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] want [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos you ca n't I do n't want that on the tape . |
| 2 | But I mean often women would say , what can I do , I do n't want any more babies , what can I do ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I did not want that . |
| 8 | He did not want that to happen again ; perhaps , he reasoned , it was why he had never asked her to move in with him . |
| 9 | No , he did not want this strange , wild boy at all . |
| 10 | The US did not want this and refused to sign . |
| 11 | The president did not want this to happen . ’ |
| 12 | The president did not want this to happen . |
| 13 | I did not want any stranger thinking I could be keen on anything my sister was stupid enough to find interesting . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ivan Cooper asked the crowd to behave responsibly and stressed that NICRA did not want any violence or bloodshed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He did not want any trouble in his respectable hostelry , and both customers were touchy . |
| 18 | Under fire for his handling of the economy and his personal finances , Mr Lamont said he did not want any other Government job . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He said , on repeated occasions , that he did not want any more families . |
| 22 | For others it might be that they want the relationship to end completely and do not want to be financially dependent on their former partners ( Bradshaw and Millar found that a fifth of those not receiving maintenance said that they did not want any ) . |
| 23 | She did not want any more of Scott Fitzgerald if she could help it . |
| 24 | ‘ He did not want any friends , ’ John Openshaw went on , ‘ and he often drank a lot . |
| 25 | He promised in the Chamber that he did not want any volunteers to be turned away from offering their service , and I am sure that he will do his best to keep that promise . |
| 26 | President Jaime Paz Zamora , claiming that he did not want any confusion between " electoral campaigning and government work " , accepted the resignations of three other ADN ministers and one from the Left Revolutionary Front ( FRI ) . |
| 27 | Middleton did not want any of that but he said he would go and talk to his crew . |
| 28 | She did not want any more pretend closeness , any more sham togetherness . |
| 29 | She said she did not want any fuss , that she was fine , and everyone over there has been marvellous . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ At one point we thought we had got an agreement but then they said they did not want any conditions at all attached to the application . ’ |