Example sentences of "we did not want " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while , I told them we did n't want to be treated this way . |
| 2 | ‘ We did n't want yer singin' an' makin' moony eyes an' all that , ’ said the old girl , spitting into the fire . |
| 3 | ‘ I know , but we did n't want to come here . ’ |
| 4 | But we did n't want to cause embarrassment — after all , they had just been awarded a ‘ Proddy ’ award for services to dogs ! |
| 5 | ‘ And we did n't want to see a team of scriptwriters messing around with our characters . |
| 6 | We spent the most exciting six weeks of our lives without a fucking camera because we did n't want to spend eighty dollars . |
| 7 | We buried it in our garden as we did n't want to upset you . ’ |
| 8 | We did n't want to pop in else your father would be saying that we 're after selling you a new hat again , knowing your weakness for hats . ’ |
| 9 | So far , City Lives has been funded largely by its interviewees , but , Courtney says , ‘ we have not interviewed anyone we did n't want ’ . |
| 10 | We did n't want money . |
| 11 | We were numb ; we did n't want to speak for fear of returning to our banal selves again . |
| 12 | When the Manchester thing was happening we did ‘ The Beast Inside ’ because we did n't want to be part of what was going on . |
| 13 | My husband and I had always lamented not learning to ski as young children so we did n't want Jessica , our two-year-old , to miss out too . |
| 14 | ‘ Royal Gait ran with the injury in the Champion Hurdle and we did n't want to take any chances with him after that , ’ said Fanshawe . |
| 15 | ‘ But we did n't want to go in with a heavy commitment at first ; we took a PC and wrote our own very simple software to deal with incoming orders . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 've always known what we did n't want our music to sound like , but we never realised that out of all that chaos we 'd sound so laid back . ’ |
| 17 | It meant we did n't want to take life with a pinch of salt in the same way any more . ’ |
| 18 | We did n't want an equal slice of a male cake , we wanted the men and their cake out of our lives . |
| 19 | ‘ Neither of us believed in God so we did n't want a religious ceremony , ’ says Marie , a 60-year-old radiographer from Ipswich . |
| 20 | ‘ We did n't want to be another Surrey , where Rudi Bryson has been a disaster . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But we did n't want to cause a plane crash . ’ |
| 22 | And who of us has never made a phone call we did n't want others to overhear ? |
| 23 | We 've played there before and there 's no stage , no PA , no nothing , so we said we did n't want to do it again . |
| 24 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 25 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 26 | It was n't how you might think — we did n't want a witness , we did n't want to show off that we were in love ; he was just easy to be with . |
| 27 | It was n't how you might think — we did n't want a witness , we did n't want to show off that we were in love ; he was just easy to be with . |
| 28 | " We did n't want him anyway . |
| 29 | So , at the very last moment of our very first film , we nearly got the fire we did n't want , and we began to feel more sanguine about the pyromania we had tried to incite the night before . |
| 30 | I mean , of course there were things that were missed out I suppose , but also , I suppose , we were quite young , so it may have quite embarrassing and we did n't want talk about certain things . |