Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [adv] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 2 | Also the Opposition did not want to waste time on such minutiae , preferring to tackle the government on wider issues arising from the conduct of foreign or domestic policy . |
| 3 | Er mummy do n't want that I 've had enough |
| 4 | Bonanza did n't want to waste time arguing about payment in an emergency . ’ |
| 5 | It was conflict 's sake , what the tenants association did n't want was a solution , it wanted a lovely , publicity-generating conflict . |
| 6 | Er , particularly since it was only half right , or you could n't exactly tell which half , not very clearly , so if it 's half by Freud , and er , it was a book erm , on erm , a controversial figure arguing over very controversial pieces , and I think the psychoanalytic study did n't want to have anything to do with it , and er , er , one of the reviews of the psychoanalytic journal that said that this is the kind of book that gets psychoanalysis a bad name . |
| 7 | The moguls of Thailand 's flourishing tourist industry do not want bad news to interfere with good times , especially among all those single men who crowd Bangkok airport . |
| 8 | In that case the union had negotiated a favourable package for those employees whom the transferee did not want to take on and who , it was agreed , should remain with the transferor . |
| 9 | Dot did n't want anything to change . |
| 10 | Dot did n't want that . |
| 11 | Dot did n't want to have to go away somewhere . |
| 12 | Dot did n't want to forget all about it . |
| 13 | Dot did n't want to hurt its face so she placed her knees carefully to one side of the lamb so that they pressed into the sewn field of flowers on the edge . |
| 14 | Olszewski was cited as saying that the new coalition did not want to overthrow the authorities and was not oriented towards a putsch . |
| 15 | Olszewski was cited as saying that the new coalition did not want to overthrow the authorities and was not oriented towards a putsch . |
| 16 | Benny said she did n't want anyone they did n't know , and it was with some relief that they heard the niece Clodagh did n't want to go amongst strangers either . |
| 17 | The president did not want this to happen . ’ |
| 18 | The president did not want this to happen . |
| 19 | ‘ Mummy did n't want me to come here , ’ she told Anne in what Anne thought of as a ‘ far back ’ voice , ‘ but I did n't want to arse around playing Lady Bountiful I wanted to do real war work . |
| 20 | But the lawyer did not want to talk about Doctor Lanyon . |
| 21 | It was said that he always got the man a club did n't want to sell , but when he signed Ted Taylor from Oldham Athletic he got the man the club might not have wanted to sell . |
| 22 | It was said of him that he always got the player that a club did n't want to sell , and the Jack transfer was a classic case in point . |
| 23 | Cristophe does n't want to talk about it . |
| 24 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 25 | If the NEA is to survive , it will have to act responsibly vis-à-vis the electorate and the electorate does not want certain work funded . |
| 26 | And the treasure hunter does n't want to be identified . |
| 27 | That is the sort of industrial policy that industry does not want . |
| 28 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the CBI , in its publication , ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ , drew attention to the fact that industry does not want to be organised , run and intervened in by TV producers , social workers and others ? |
| 29 | If the industry does not want to have any exemptions from the levy , it should be able to undertake such a policy in partnership with Government and the TECs . |
| 30 | ‘ Monica said : ‘ Well , mummy does n't want them anymore . ’ |