Example sentences of "[noun prp] did [adv] 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 | Dennis did n't want anything to change that . |
| 7 | Jay would not be shut out and from what she could tell , Lucy did n't want to shut her out . |
| 8 | Bella did n't want to be called guilty ; her instinct was always for ambiguity . |
| 9 | Edward did not want that spell to end . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Towards the end of this review I put in a call to Ovation 's distributors , Korg UK , to check on some details , and after raving on about what a great guitar I though it was I was told that Korg did n't want it back . |
| 12 | I DO N'T WONDER ANGIE DID N'T WANT TO PLAY WITH YOU . |
| 13 | Ken did n't want to be thought wanting by people for whom he had respect . |
| 14 | Ken did n't want to think there was any remnant of a woman 's sexual smell on a man he had previously trusted as one of his own . |
| 15 | I feel that David did n't want to face it and I do n't think Tony wanted to face it . |
| 16 | And now David did n't want any part of it , and she 'd been so looking forward to their sharing in the discoveries . |
| 17 | This was the question Richard did not want to answer . |
| 18 | Certainly the Pentagon knows it 's already under investigation , but Hawkins did n't want anyone to know that he was pointing fingers in certain directions . |
| 19 | FRANKIE DID NOT WANT to think of his mam and the Irishman . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I had tried to tell him that the world had changed drastically , but Bonefish did not want to believe in change . |
| 22 | Maggie did not want to be a crazy person . |
| 23 | Maggie did not want to take her arms away from Phoebe , she needed to be held . |
| 24 | At the same time she was certain that Maggie did not want to have to cope with that . |
| 25 | Eve did n't want it to get back to the convent that she was trick acting in Healy 's Hotel and ogling teddy boys out of the window . |
| 26 | Peggy had advised from the wings , but Eve did n't want outside charity . |
| 27 | 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 ] . |
| 28 | Fru Gertlinger knew that Elisabeth did not want to unpick the past with her and she never made mention of it . |
| 29 | So Father Barnes did n't want to believe it either . |
| 30 | This was just what Artemis did n't want , some thruster charging up behind Hullabaloo whom she had just got settled , and trying to make a race of it , particularly with the big hedge fast approaching at the bottom of the dip . |