Example sentences of "not want [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not want Eleanor to talk to any of his fellow patients and suss out what sort of hospital he was in . |
| 2 | One excuse given was that the authorities did not want Blake to associate with another spy which would have happened if he had been transferred to Birmingham prison . |
| 3 | If you do not want washes to fuse into each other , use a little extra medium with one of the washes . |
| 4 | I think I probably wasted a lot of time not feeling good about myself , and I would n't want Deb to feel like that , so I make a deliberate effort to be supportive , to say she looks nice and notice what she 's wearing , that kind of thing . |
| 5 | Then realising to whom she was referring she stopped and , embarrassed now , she muttered , ‘ Well , it was a fib in a good cause ; we do n't want bairns scampering around this place , do we ? ’ |