Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] not want " in BNC.

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1 Wainfleet did not want it back , the only reason he was carrying it around was that he had jotted a telephone number on the back .
2 Now that the old man knew of his weakness , Vashinov did not want the project to fail and thereby have the finger of incompetence pointed at him .
3 When Van Cheele got to London , Cunningham did not want to talk at first .
4 The EABA did not want the British fighters eliminating other nations ’ boxers , so ruled they must meet each other first before the survivor boxes against other European nations .
5 The spokesman , citing information received from Israel , said the PLO did not want Israel to look good in the world 's eyes for taking the refugees in , especially after having been widely criticised for recently expelling 400 Palestinians into a no man 's land in Lebanon .
6 The Sheldons do not want revenge .
7 Edward did not want that spell to end .
8 However , Herod did not want to kill John , because , the Bible tells us , ‘ He was afraid of John because he knew that John was a good and holy man . ’
9 This was the question Richard did not want to answer .
10 FRANKIE DID NOT WANT to think of his mam and the Irishman .
11 At first she had been surprised when a flask and a chunk of bread had been tossed down to her that first night , until she had remembered that de Raimes did not want her dead just yet .
12 And Mr Gorbachev does not want Vietnam 's role in Kampuchea to mar his summit meeting next month in Begging with Mr Deng Xiaoping .
13 Like the other English mystics , Hilton does not want the contemplative to agonise and strain unduly .
14 I had tried to tell him that the world had changed drastically , but Bonefish did not want to believe in change .
15 Maggie did not want to be a crazy person .
16 Maggie did not want to take her arms away from Phoebe , she needed to be held .
17 At the same time she was certain that Maggie did not want to have to cope with that .
18 A spokesperson at the Brazilian embassy in London said that Brazil did not want to become a regular base of support for the British presence in the Falkland Islands [ see also p. 37001 ] .
19 Fru Gertlinger knew that Elisabeth did not want to unpick the past with her and she never made mention of it .
20 After all those months of fighting the knowledge that Anthony did not want her much , it was a heavenly feeling .
21 Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border .
22 At the end England did not want to know about coming forward . ’
23 Giles did not want to worry his friend .
24 Karen did not want one .
25 Karen did not want to miss it , any more .
26 Léonie did not want to watch Thérèse clamber on his knee , twist her blonde curls with one finger , ogle him .
27 Monsieur Jagger does not want his wife to know and we are loyal to him . ’
28 Although a military coup seems unlikely in these democratic times , Mr Kim does not want to risk rattling the top brass or provoking earnest young turks unless , or until , a glaring new scandal emerges — and one may be brewing over fighter-aircraft procurements .
29 ‘ But Fergus does not want to escape him . ’
30 A Lotus spokesman said : ‘ Mr Gilbey does not want to talk . ’
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