Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] really want " in BNC.
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| 1 | This drew the comment from Bertrand Russell that both East and West did not really want disarmament . |
| 2 | Poindexter , weary , did not really want to know and had no memory of the memo at all ; he told him he would see him at the office in the morning . |
| 3 | The queen dowager would probably have been considerably more of an embarrassment at large , and the Crowland chronicler implies that Gloucester did not really want to resolve the question . |
| 4 | They did not really want to be mutineers , but they were afraid of Tom Smith . |
| 5 | Lisa always knew she did not really want her baby adapted , and before she was even born had decided against it . |
| 6 | Except that we were never completely apart , my love , for you were always beside me , and you were always there , and I think that without you there there were times when I should certainly have been crushed by the weight of a Crown I did not really want . |
| 7 | I do n't much care which , ’ said Fenella , who did not really want Caspar to ride off and leave her alone out here , but who was not going to get so close to Nuadu and then ride away and leave him . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd better try to find the prisoners , ’ said Fenella at last , although she did not really want to leave the comparative safety of the wood-store . |
| 9 | They did not really want Edward du Cann- he was recognised as having been disloyal to Ted Heath , and his City activities , with Lonrho and Keyser Ullman , were not universally accepted . |
| 10 | The queen dowager would probably have been considerably more of an embarrassment at large , and the Crowland chronicler implies that Gloucester did not really want to resolve the question . |
| 11 | ‘ She said she did not really want to go back to university and my husband told her she did not have to if she did not want to . |
| 12 | She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to . |
| 13 | I did n't really want to marry her or nothing , but I thought , you know , that we was friends like . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ What can I do for you ? ’ and I said ‘ I did n't really want to get out of anything ; I 'm OK . ’ |
| 15 | He did n't really want outsiders to know why he was there . |
| 16 | I did n't really want to be a pretty little girl then . |
| 17 | He did n't really want her to hear her mother being strangled . |
| 18 | Anne realized that she did n't really want to leave she 'd just wanted a happier home . |
| 19 | What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments . |
| 20 | She did n't really want him , of course but she simply had to prove to herself that he would prefer her to Sally , given the choice . |
| 21 | ‘ I ought to get some sleep , ’ he said , but the coke had taken hold , it was lifting him , and he had such a good seat at the circus , he did n't really want to leave . |
| 22 | The woman at the hotel did n't really want kids and with summer holidays approaching could get a better rate for her rooms . |
| 23 | Devereux said : ‘ Widnes did n't really want me to go and there were problems with insurance guarantees . |
| 24 | Benny did n't really want her to come to the party , but for once Mother had been insistent . |
| 25 | I suppose some people might have but I think I did n't really want to face up to the fact that he might have been that man on the beach . ’ |
| 26 | This is a step I did n't really want to take as the text books and scientific articles indicate that the fry feed on a mucus secretion on the parents flanks which is necessary to their health . |
| 27 | Jack 's tactic was to keep as far away from his team-mates as possible — not difficult , because he was hitting the ball pretty straight and the Sunningdale amateur , who was also fairly straight , did n't really want to talk to a pro golfer . |
| 28 | ‘ We had a flood of enquiries when Barclaycard introduced its annual charge — mostly from the sort of customers we did n't really want , ’ says Ian Bell , managing director of Town & Country . |
| 29 | He even bullied the women who came into his shop , selling them things they did n't really want to buy and refusing to stock things that they did . |
| 30 | The farmer did n't actually refuse to take Mister Johnny but he made it clear he did n't really want him . |