Example sentences of "not want [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they did not want to confuse birds with animals , leaving the term whitearse exclusively avian . |
| 2 | They did not want to confuse their audience with images of pacifists , masochists or the self-proclaimed ‘ fierce dykes ’ who screamed that they wanted to make love to the first lady . |
| 3 | Contrary to what might be expected , these do not want mollycoddling or softer treatment — in fact the reverse . |
| 4 | I do not want to delay progress , but someone must say that he is not entirely happy about the way in which British Rail has promoted the Bill and about the contents of some of the clauses . |
| 5 | She did not want to pretend pleasure at being here and she did not want to witness even more proof of the life that had been led in this house , all of it with her father . |
| 6 | Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series ) |
| 7 | This is why we do not want to abandon the term inner city , either analytically or politically , only to ground it in the academic debates which have reproduced it conceptually , the political debates that have refashioned it discursively and , most significantly , the social injustices and inequalities that lend the term its emotive power and mobilising force . |
| 8 | They do not want to abandon these . |
| 9 | Although unprepared for the success of his party Brazauskas called for a " government of national agreement " , adding ; " We will talk to other parties and do not want to usurp power . " |
| 10 | Dexter was gasping for a drink but decided thirst was the better part of subordination : he did not want to annoy Blanche by prolonging the interruption . |
| 11 | He does not want to respond . |
| 12 | There was a suggestion in Bridget 's tone she did not want to respond to . |
| 13 | Then came a day of snow showers , and she did not want to drive and waited until the late afternoon while Magnus sat and whined by the door . |
| 14 | Perry 's fags lay half out of their packet on the table , but I do not want to smoke . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And when I came to England , I did not want to kill your Queen . |
| 17 | It is in my mind that they did not want to kill me , but Isay was left to face them alone . |
| 18 | ‘ Sometimes you are so nice I do not want to kill you , Mr Wilson ! ’ he said . |
| 19 | Second , there is a different sense in which private individuals may not want to conserve soil or have a small family other than the most obvious that it may not benefit them . |
| 20 | As Institute president Ian Plaistowe said very wisely in his letter to the Financial Times , we should work towards recording similar events in similar ways ; my point was simply that we do not want to record different things in similar ways , and that is where judgment will come in : for example , some securitisations are valid , others not . |
| 21 | What is the mid-point of the argument that some teachers do not want to reflect , others can never find the time for reflection and others feel it unnecessary ? |
| 22 | It did not want to part with the medium-wave lengths which allowed simulcasting on both FM and medium-wave , so that the deficiencies of one could be remedied by the other . |
| 23 | He is more likely to borrow than barter , since he does not want to part with his own . |
| 24 | Mrs Knight said she did not want to part with her belongings but was ‘ dumbfounded ’ by Bruce 's actions . |
| 25 | If London is not to implode and if people are not to be paternalistically forced to live the way they do not want to live , new towns will have to be publicly designated . |
| 26 | In another passage evocative of past attempts to play the race card , Mr Tebbit wrote that ‘ most people in Britain did not want to live in a multicultural , multiracial society , but it has been foisted on them ’ . |
| 27 | Already the biggest obstacle to the dissemination of improved techniques of mud building is that scientists and housing experts have decried mud so much that even the poor , who have no alternative to mud , do not want to live in it . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ It happens more often than people realise that children do not want to live with their parents . |
| 29 | Young people do not want to live in them , when as often as not work means agriculture or nothing . |
| 30 | He did not want to live any longer . |