Example sentences of "do [adv] want [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't know how else to shake you out of your melancholy — and I did so want Hilary back . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I did so want Isabel to come , too . |
| 3 | France had never at heart been enthusiastic about the EDC , regarding it at a minimum as perhaps a lesser evil : fundamentally , it did not want West German rearmament . |
| 4 | She did not want Lisa to have any part of Rachel , and she did not want Rachel to have any part of Phoebe . |
| 5 | She did not want Vitor d'Arcos inside her home . |
| 6 | His clients were private people who did not want publicity . |
| 7 | The awful sensation of a dead nursery comforted her ; she did not want nurseries to seem cosy and beautiful . |
| 8 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |
| 9 | He said that he was convinced that the country did not want change , and was calling the referendum to expose the " lies " spread by " dissidents " about the level of support for multiparty politics ; it would , he said , give " people a chance to vote for me and my party … and to reject the introduction of other political parties " . |
| 10 | FA chief executive Graham Kelly did not want BSkyB to screen Paul Gascoigne 's Lazio comeback last night for fear of poor gates at home . |
| 11 | On the other hand , while Franco was selling strategic minerals to Hitler , he was also selling them to the Allies , precisely because he did not want Spain to become the economic satellite of Germany . |
| 12 | She did not want Ruth to have a cat . |
| 13 | The safe in her father 's office upstairs had cheques in it , but she did not want cheques . |
| 14 | I wanted a wet/dry type of trickle filter for use with the vat mainly because I did not want water retained in the filter for any length of time — this could have caused weight problems . |
| 15 | We did so not because we did not want money spent on community care , but because we did not necessarily believe that a one-track policy was the best way to ensure the ideal form of care . |
| 16 | The great mass of the people did not want revolution , or else they would have elected a Labour Government . |
| 17 | She did not want Ross to know what had caught her eye . |
| 18 | But yesterday one of the group 's leading members , Mrs Rajender Kaur , stated firmly that Sikhs did not want Khalistan , their own state . |
| 19 | We did not want cameras . ’ |
| 20 | The Americans did not want Britain to acquire weapons of her own , and , though they were not prepared to say so publicly , they were determined to make acquisition as difficult and expensive as possible . |
| 21 | Could it be that the Germans in the west did not want unity after all , despite those opinion polls over decades showing they did ? |
| 22 | ‘ I did not want things that Picasso gave Douglas and me coming on the market , and Billy very decently gave me the drawing ’ . |
| 23 | He did not want things to go wrong at this stage . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The national gallery told the Minister 's predecessor , the right hon. Member for Shoreham — no doubt the arguments were repeated to the Minister personally by many of the trustees and directors of the museums — that they did not want powers of disposal — not because they did not trust their own intellectual judgment , but , following the line set down in the Museums and Galleries Commission 's 1988 report on the national gallery , because those powers should not be forced on the galleries . |
| 26 | He was on the edge of weeping , but did not want Murray to realise it . |
| 27 | Bevin told the British House of Commons in February 1946 that he did not want Turkey to become " a satellite state " of the USSR . |
| 28 | He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’ |
| 29 | The EISA bus was originally developed by a consortium of nine companies led by Compaq Computer Corp that did not want IBM Corp 's pricey-to-license Micro Channel wished upon them . |
| 30 | She did not want Reynolds troubled again . |