Example sentences of "he [verb] [not/n't] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did 'e buy it for if 'e did n't want it ? |
| 2 | Part of him did n't want to get away with it . |
| 3 | the thing is , he saw it without an M O T and that lad wanted it , as soon as you 've got it M O T 'd he do n't want it |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | I am afraid it was because he did not want to get entangled with the left on such an emotional issue . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thompson did not know the details then because he did not want to . |
| 9 | He did not want the job at all . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I offered , but he did not want it . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He did not want a classical house , but something cosy and as English as could be . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Such a purchaser would , in effect , buy a firm that he did not want to own for long in its present shape . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He did not want Eleanor to talk to any of his fellow patients and suss out what sort of hospital he was in . |
| 20 | He did not want to miss a word . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | He did not want to believe that it was so , but he had to know for certain . |
| 23 | He did not want to be small . |
| 24 | He did not want to let Smallfry down again . |
| 25 | He did not want to die and yet his increasing depression was making existence intolerable . |
| 26 | He did not want to have to speak for he did not want to hear the sound of his own voice . |
| 27 | He did not want to have to speak for he did not want to hear the sound of his own voice . |
| 28 | But he did not want to go . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | He took the part with manifest reluctance ; he did not want to be recognized by Ghorbanifar . |