Example sentences of "not want him " in BNC.

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31 She did not want him to hold her again .
32 The touch of his hand on her body made her tremble , but she did not want him to stop .
33 While we would not want him to show his full negotiating hand at this stage , he gave us very little information .
34 God knew she did not want him lowered by doubt , or by pain , or by despair , as Lulach had once seemed to accuse her .
35 She did not want him to think , she said , that she was really rich , that was only a kind of joke .
36 She did not want him in her life .
37 For instance , if the parties do not want the expert to consider any evidence other than that contained in their submissions , and do not want him to make his own independent investigations , they could stipulate to that effect in the expert clause .
38 He did not kiss her , she did not want him to .
39 She did not want him anywhere near it .
40 Although she had half hoped he might guess , she did not want him to guess now , she thought frantically .
41 I always said yes , even if I was drained , because I did not want him to chuck the ball to someone else . ’
42 A distant part of her mind wondered if she 'd ever be able to look at this man and not want him , but in truth she already knew the answer .
43 Chesarynth hung back , not wanting him behind her , but he ushered her in with little shooing motions of his manicured hands and she had no choice .
44 ‘ No , ’ she blurted out , not wanting him to move , not wanting him to hurt himself .
45 ‘ No , ’ she blurted out , not wanting him to move , not wanting him to hurt himself .
46 He released her as suddenly as he had come to her support and she grasped quickly and covertly at the back of another chair , not wanting him to know that her numbed leg was tingling painfully now .
47 ‘ Or someone like her , ’ Belinda stressed , not wanting him to guess that she had noticed the brunette 's special interest in him .
48 She could feel the anger surging inside her and she fought it down , not wanting him to know what a fool she felt for not having been made aware of that fact .
49 Fabia , not wanting him to think that she hung on his every word , turned away .
50 Unless , of course , they had not wanted him to know , and had seen to it that he had no address for them .
51 The appointment had been purely political , for Wellington had not wanted him , and the exiled Prince had consequently been kept well away from any fighting , though the experience had nevertheless convinced the young man that he had a fine talent for soldiering .
52 She had not wanted him to respond with a show of good humour .
53 She had not wanted him to behave like ‘ darling Alexander ’ !
54 When , eventually he was able to take in his surroundings — the dingy room in a seedy lodging-house near Earls Court tube station — he became increasingly ashamed at having , as he felt , scarpered , even though Liza had appeared not to want him to stay .
55 If George Bush survives the Presidential elections in November it will be because the Democrats can produce nothing better than Bill Clinton whose appalling record on capital punishment ( he likes it ) is reason enough not to want him .
56 Paul 's house was always full of people and Steve did n't really have a home at all — when his mum remarried , his stepfather could n't stand him and did n't want him around .
57 I did n't want him to breathe that stuff into his lungs , ’ he says .
58 I do n't want him asking me questions like where I 'm going and stuff like that , just in case he tells Mr Jackson .
59 The people he 's staying with do n't want him . ’
60 But the central irony about him is that it was not only the Norwegian people that rejected him : even the majority of Norwegian fascists did n't want him .
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