Example sentences of "[Wh pn] did [not/n't] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Monica , in apparently wanting the ITF to change the Olympic eligibility rules to suit top players who did not want to qualify by playing in the Federation Cup , said ‘ without Gabriela , Martina or I in the Olympics , they would n't really be the Olympics and Steffi could win the gold medal playing left-handed . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Both races hope for prosperity , prosperity means expansion , expansion means immigration , immigration means British ’ ; the syllogism was false , in logic and experience , but it was good enough for those who did not want to go where logic and experience pointed . |
| 3 | They visited the homes of the women , talked to husbands , fathers and fathers-in-law who did not want them to take part in any struggle , and they urged the women themselves to assert themselves . |
| 4 | Those who did not want to buy a bigger or better house were able to borrow more to extract equity from their fast-appreciating assets . |
| 5 | His clients were private people who did not want publicity . |
| 6 | Children who did not want to grow up haunted Kensington gardens because they had been happy there . |
| 7 | Between those who did not want to hear and those who did not want to know , North was left , as George understood , alone . |
| 8 | Between those who did not want to hear and those who did not want to know , North was left , as George understood , alone . |
| 9 | In an age when personal monarchy was the motivating force of government , and kings were straining every nerve to increase their power and authority , she provides the unique spectacle of an adult reigning monarch who did not want to reign . |
| 10 | ( I recently watched a more formal version of this technique where a class of adolescents was invited to direct the teacher in how to appear as a King of a small Greek State in classical times who had lost his power to a conquering neighbouring state but who did not want to lose his dignity . |
| 11 | As billetees , we lived en famille with people we had never previously met , who did not want our company , and who did not know what we were doing in their towns . |
| 12 | It should have been a fairly calm journey but the car was driven by a nervous new driver who did not want to lose face . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This change in the law was forced on the government by the European Court of Justice which decided in favour of a woman who did not want to retire at 60 . |
| 15 | In fact , the only serious problems at this ‘ stage involved children who did not want to leave the security of the one home they knew . |
| 16 | This meant that the troublemakers , including many who did not want to come to Great Engeham in the first place , were given a pretty free run . |
| 17 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century , building societies began to accept investments from people who did not want to buy a house , but use them as a way of investing their savings and obtaining an income in the shape of interest . |
| 18 | A player , who did not want to be identified , said : ‘ The whole place has gone crazy again . |
| 19 | The former love , who did not want his name revealed , said Suzannah had two grown-up sons . |
| 20 | Its owner who did not want , or did not dare , to bring his boat round to the jetty ? |
| 21 | Someone else who did not want his visit known . |
| 22 | Admittedly , the background was exceptional ; the true beneficiaries of the waiver were the allies , who did not want Germany 's economic resources to be diminished through claims from States previously allied to the Third Reich . |
| 23 | Duff Cooper , an improbable standard-bearer , for he had acclaimed the victory of the independent candidate in Paddington and his wife was a close friend of Beaverbrook , offered himself as a knightly substitute ; and Baldwin , who did not want to sever his connection with Bewdley , accepted gratefully . |
| 24 | After certain difficulties with the manager of the Old Vic , who did not want to commit himself to the play on the basis of the bare outline which had been shown to him , Browne approached the theatrical impresario , Henry Sherek , and asked him if he would care to produce the play — with Browne as director — at Edinburgh . |
| 25 | A recent objection came from a client who did not want to invest in a company that gave political donations . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | George cried , who did not want so marvellous an evening to end . |
| 28 | Wilson 's disinclination to protest against the inquiry probably arose from a reasonable belief that any senior politician who did not want such an inquiry had something discreditable to hide . |
| 29 | Who knows what the exact situation will be and what problems will arise as those changes are forced upon the Scottish people who did not want them in the first place ? |
| 30 | The non-enrollers who did not want to do a course in the future gave a variety of responses but financial factors , not needing the qualification at work , and being interested only in the ‘ target ’ course were their main reasons . |