Example sentences of "[not/n't] want [to-vb] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not want to carp about the work of the Committee . |
| 2 | No wonder the right hon. Gentleman did not want to talk about the Bill . |
| 3 | He did not want to talk about the woman in Dundalk , though , the double life , the scenes and drunken violence . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not want to talk about the number of jobs likely to go because we are currently in discussion with the union . ’ |
| 5 | Henry did not want to talk about the redevelopment of Wimbledon town centre . |
| 6 | Paul does not want to think about the Poll Tax . |
| 7 | Fans , in general , do not want to read about the sport in retrospect . |
| 8 | He was back in the shop today , but did n't want to talk about the raid . |
| 9 | ‘ But I do n't want to talk about the past , ’ I said . |
| 10 | Andrew does n't want to talk about the situation , but he 's alone , outside a system which is powerless to help him . |
| 11 | Once again she got the distinct impression that he did n't want to talk about the sculptor . |
| 12 | He did n't want to hear about the compromise they 'd come to : an Anglican marriage , the sons to be in their father 's religion , the daughters baptized Catholics . |
| 13 | I do n't want to hear about the ghost , OK ? ’ |
| 14 | I assume you did n't want to think about the kitchen ? |
| 15 | ‘ I certainly do n't want to think about the music of Mozart : that 's his affair not mine . |
| 16 | ‘ Jane 's 22 and Grant a bit older but she 's very intense and tries to force a commitment , while he 's very airy-fairy and does n't want to think about the future . |
| 17 | You do what you have to do : you take your shirt off and get prodded and tapped , but you keep your head down ; you do n't want to know about the stuff they do in there . |
| 18 | She had n't really believed it herself , not all of it anyway ; so when her mother started telling her that what Davy Treffry had said was more or less true , she wanted to put her hands over her ears and not listen ; she did n't want to know about the argument there had been between her father and her Uncle Harry ; she did n't want to hear about how they picked their wives by some silly fishing competition . |