Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] want [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party did not want a repeat of the disastrous ‘ Who Governs ? ’ election of 1974 . |
| 2 | He did not want a classical house , but something cosy and as English as could be . |
| 3 | Israel did not want the refugees back under any conditions and Jordan did not want a refugee body acting independently . |
| 4 | He had said that he did not want a solicitor when he first arrived at the police station , at 2 p.m . |
| 5 | Back at his hotel , packing for his return to London , John wondered how to fit this large acquisition into his luggage , could not think of a way , decided that he did not want a souvenir of the trip anyway because of his gloom about the impending ballet , so tore it up and threw it in the wastepaper basket . |
| 6 | Winnie did not want a married couple , and such a minute flat would not be suitable for people with babies or pets . |
| 7 | Whitelaw , concerned as ever to be the mediator , strove to find a middle way between Heseltine and those who did not want a penny extra for the cities for fear of being seen to reward rioters . |
| 8 | Lord John Russell , who at that time was not a member of Palmerston 's Government , said that he had heard that Panmure did not want a new building for the War Department , and he hoped that : |
| 9 | She still did not want a baby , but she knew how much she did want and need her husband . |
| 10 | ‘ Yet you did not want a child in this marriage ? ’ |
| 11 | I did not want a post-modernist confusion . |
| 12 | And in particular , the last governments of the Fourth Republic did not want a repetition of the EDC episode . |
| 13 | Baldwin turned the question by saying that ‘ several of them were , perhaps , too Conservative and did not want a change . ’ |
| 14 | She did not want a baby . |
| 15 | He was informed of his rights after arrest and said that he did not want a solicitor . |
| 16 | During the third interview , he was asked to confirm that he did not want a solicitor , and he replied ‘ I have n't got a solicitor . ’ |
| 17 | Upon contacting the police station , that solicitor was told that C did not want a solicitor . |
| 18 | in which C had affirmatively said that he did not want a solicitor . |
| 19 | In the afternoon , when only her mother was with her , she stated spontaneously to a nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she had been a Jehovah 's Witness and retained some beliefs . |
| 20 | At 5 p.m. a staff nurse joined Miss T. and her mother and Miss T. told the staff nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she used to be a Jehovah 's Witness and that she still maintained some beliefs . |
| 21 | Shortly afterwards Miss T. told the midwife that she did not want a blood transfusion . |
| 22 | On the present facts Miss T. did not want a blood transfusion but she did ask whether there was a substitute treatment and was told , erroneously , I believe , that there was . |
| 23 | More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job . |
| 24 | Of those temporary workers who did not want a permanent job , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) had been economically inactive one year previously , and less than two per cent had been unemployed . |
| 25 | Women ( particularly married women ) , those with part-time and those with seasonal , temporary or casual jobs , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they did not want a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 26 | Rather more than a quarter did not want a permanent job . |
| 27 | There were substantial differences between men and women , with four in ten of the former giving this as their principal reason and only 16 per cent claiming they did not want a permanent job . |
| 28 | For married women the tendency was even more pronounced , as it also was for part-time temporary workers ( 43 per cent did not want a permanent job against 8 per cent of full- timers ) and for those with seasonal , temporary or casual as opposed to fixed-term contract jobs ( 36 per cent against 10 per cent ) . |
| 29 | If Elliott did not want a partner , he would have a rival . |
| 30 | She did not want a child to walk through life beside her . |