Example sentences of "he [verb] not want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot , distressed , wrote to Wilson and to another of his champions , Gilbert Seldes , protesting that he did not want to be praised at Pound 's expense since be was indebted to Pound ( as indeed his dedication to Pound as il miglior fabbro had elegantly acknowledged ) . |
| 2 | I am afraid it was because he did not want to get entangled with the left on such an emotional issue . ’ |
| 3 | Brendan Ormsby 's transfer from Leeds United to Cardiff City was called off yesterday after the defender decided he did not want to play in the Third Division . |
| 4 | He maintains he did not want to shoot her , but that he was angry with her and was also agitated by a huge bar bill , and as well as by being put in a particularly smokey corner of the night club . |
| 5 | Thompson did not know the details then because he did not want to . |
| 6 | He did not want the job at all . |
| 7 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 8 | I offered , but he did not want it . ’ |
| 9 | Desiring to flaunt his new found riches he did not want to be seen owning the house which lies behind — a rambling hotchpotch of roof lines and gables which evolved over centuries . |
| 10 | He did not want a classical house , but something cosy and as English as could be . |
| 11 | When George Bush called for Saddam to be deposed , it was clear that : he did not want the Kurds to do it ( that would displease Turkey , Syria , Iran and Russia , and therefore , everybody else ) ; he did not want the Shiites to do it ( that would please Iran and so displease everybody else ) ; and he was not sure if he wanted the Sunnis to do it ( because that might make the Kurds and the Shiites do it , too ) . |
| 12 | When George Bush called for Saddam to be deposed , it was clear that : he did not want the Kurds to do it ( that would displease Turkey , Syria , Iran and Russia , and therefore , everybody else ) ; he did not want the Shiites to do it ( that would please Iran and so displease everybody else ) ; and he was not sure if he wanted the Sunnis to do it ( because that might make the Kurds and the Shiites do it , too ) . |
| 13 | Such a purchaser would , in effect , buy a firm that he did not want to own for long in its present shape . |
| 14 | He said that he did not mind discussing changes to National Insurance with me , but he did not want to involve the whole Cabinet committee . |
| 15 | Although he believed thoroughly in the ability of these products to fill out the tiny character lines around the eyes and mouth , and to smooth his neck , he did not want to admit he was buying them for himself . |
| 16 | He did not want Eleanor to talk to any of his fellow patients and suss out what sort of hospital he was in . |
| 17 | He did not want to miss a word . |
| 18 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |
| 19 | He did not want to believe that it was so , but he had to know for certain . |
| 20 | He did not want to be small . |
| 21 | He did not want to let Smallfry down again . |
| 22 | He did not want to die and yet his increasing depression was making existence intolerable . |
| 23 | He did not want to have to speak for he did not want to hear the sound of his own voice . |
| 24 | He did not want to have to speak for he did not want to hear the sound of his own voice . |
| 25 | But he did not want to go . |
| 26 | No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’ |
| 27 | He took the part with manifest reluctance ; he did not want to be recognized by Ghorbanifar . |
| 28 | He did not want an American invasion . |
| 29 | He did not want to be bothered with the problems she encountered , with water that seemed brackish or ceilings that had cracked — they were her concerns and , as she complained in a letter to Minnie : — I am driven to distraction with those household concerns with which you will be familiar Minnie but then in your case you have but to report them for them to be seen to by the master who will instruct the butler to bring in workmen and I am obliged to go out and seek my own help which is no easy thing . |
| 30 | Salah did not need to persuade himself ; and his Egyptian teacher was also anxious that his daughter should continue — — but he did not want her to be the only one . |