Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] not want " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not want , wrote Harsnet , to try and trace this logic or to dwell , in these notes , on the nature and direction of my earlier work , especially , he wrote , as I have always held that any new work worth its salt should be essentially different from all that has gone before , all that others have done and all that you have done , just as the deeds of each new day must never simply repeat those of the previous day or days . |
| 2 | I do not want to say that we are going to get rid of everyone , only those who are our enemies . |
| 3 | I do not want to go too far into the philosophical or even the physiological aspects of the matter . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not want a health service of spot markets and predatory hospitals and product lines . |
| 5 | I do not want to see the World . |
| 6 | ‘ I do not want your stinking name , ’ Gina said . |
| 7 | I do not want my new friends to know I am connected to a boring man like you . |
| 8 | I do not want to take your silly name any longer . |
| 9 | I do not want your emblems of slavery . ’ |
| 10 | But , she thought , I might be called back and I would not know what to say , I do not want to go amongst mad people , to have them stare at me , to see the unpleasantness of a lot of geriatric cases . |
| 11 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 12 | I do not want to waste my time writing for silly buggers like you . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , it is cold and I do not want it . |
| 14 | I do not want to see the election lost on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 15 | I could , to be sure , scribble off things the whole day long , but a composition of this kind goes out into the world , and naturally I do not want to have cause to be ashamed of my name on the title-page . |
| 16 | ‘ I do not want to forget , ’ she said . |
| 17 | For once , here is a project that I do not want to know more about . |
| 18 | I do NOT want him going to some — |
| 19 | I do not want to give the wrong impression by quoting that slogan of a well-known Sunday newspaper . |
| 20 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
| 21 | I do not want to play games in colour on my TV , I can do household accounts with a piece of paper and a pencil , I can learn languages easier from a book and a tape recorder , if I want information I can look it up and read it far faster than I can get it from a screen and I can turn back with a nip of the finger and read it again . |
| 22 | I do not want to detract from Lincoln 's performance in any way ; he is a very talented athlete , but somehow that talent seems to have gone to waste . |
| 23 | But no , I do not want to take the chance myself in case it turns out to be a family weakness . |
| 24 | However , I do not want to offend my local church organist by asking her to step down . |
| 25 | I do not want to get rid of him , so I was considering buying a 24″ × 24″ × 24″ tank for him alone . |
| 26 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 27 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 28 | Because I do not want to influence the mind of the patient in any way , the phrase I usually employ is : ‘ Go to wherever your subconscious mind feels comfortable . ’ |
| 29 | I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him . |
| 30 | I do not want him to return now . |