Example sentences of "they did [adv] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weekly paper for the young and independent , published today , asked 500 12 to 15-year-olds how happy they were at home and 79 per cent said they did not want to leave before the age of 18 . |
| 2 | Mr Field has agreed not to make any statement about his next course of action before his 11.30am meeting with Mr Kinnock , but he said that his supporters in Birkenhead had told him they did not want to see a fudge . |
| 3 | The law would make it unlawful to deny people a job either because they were union members , or because they did not want to belong to a union . |
| 4 | The banks have been holding off up till now , because they did not want loan losses further to dent their earnings , already hit by the stockmarket fall , in the current financial year . |
| 5 | They did not want to play the great power ’ game any longer . |
| 6 | They did not want to provoke conflict between different sections of society . |
| 7 | Some soldiers had said that when the war was over they did not want to take up Party work any longer : ‘ Many of them think that they have done enough through their service at the Front or also behind the front-lines , and point to those of similar age or younger who were not soldiers . ’ |
| 8 | They did not want to be bothered with her joys and despairs and she did not want to be bothered with theirs . |
| 9 | The petty officers said men of 72 nationalities were serving on the Red Crimea as ‘ one big happy family ’ and they did not want to be split up . |
| 10 | That they did not want to be wage slaves in a factory . |
| 11 | This is an interesting monument because the architect , Rodolfo Vantini , who completed the work in 1828 , wanted to get away from the conventional Roman triumphal arch , ( a decision said to have been as much due to the local inhabitants complaining that they did not want their view of the Lombardian Pre-Alps blocked as to any creative urge ) . |
| 12 | They did not want arty philosophical essays . |
| 13 | The organizers hired the local library for the occasion and decided , on account of tension at previous gatherings , that they did not want any police officers present . |
| 14 | They did not want to pull another track from the album for their next single and recorded four brand new ones with ‘ Nobody 's Twisting Your Arm ’ as the key song . |
| 15 | They did not want success at all costs , but likewise they were not willing to jump off the pop escalator , or stand on the spot arguing among themselves . |
| 16 | No further steps were taken until 28th October , 1857 , when Wilson wrote to Hall , on behalf of the Lords of the Treasury , saying that as they did not want to incur additional expenditure on architects ' fees for further rejected plans for the Foreign Office , they had looked at Pennethorne 's plans and would use those . |
| 17 | Perhaps they did not want to confuse birds with animals , leaving the term whitearse exclusively avian . |
| 18 | They did not want to repudiate totally their previous policies , yet had to recognise the disaster of which they had been part . |
| 19 | The human members of the community are here mainly because out in the commercial world , they had been doing things they did not want to do , using skills they wished they did not have . |
| 20 | It offered local people services , landscape , and ‘ village life ’ , things which they did not want . |
| 21 | Johnny Kirk , whose family had been connected with the ‘ mayor-making ’ over the years , said they did not want to make a big production of it or turn it into a tourist attraction ; they wanted to keep it as it was , ‘ a local event for local people ’ . |
| 22 | They did not want it to be too obvious , since observing the search would provide them with great amusement . |
| 23 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 24 | The introduction of summary financial statements ensured that building society members did not have to cope with extensive , detailed financial information that they did not want and could not be expected to understand . |
| 25 | ‘ It was all so quick — the judges just said they did not want to hear any more arguments , convictions quashed and then got up and walked out ! |
| 26 | At a meeting at the end of 1989 between Navan Resources and the islanders , the company were told by the islanders that they did not want gold mining . |
| 27 | Klein et al ( 1965 ) found that many older people hesitated to talk about the past because they did not want to meet with rejection , and that many actually needed help and encouragement to reminisce . |
| 28 | They decided , however , that they could not do this during the coming festival of Passover because Jesus was still popular among the people and they did not want to cause unrest . |
| 29 | They did not want to waste their time , effort , money and future chances in taking on an impregnable President . |
| 30 | Ever a Walter Mitty character , he tried to get back into the CIA fold , but after the North fiasco they did not want to know him . |