Example sentences of "do n't want [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can , sorry , can I I do n't want to stray into item matter B . |
| 2 | It was your company that I did n't want to swear in front of |
| 3 | I did n't want to die like Granny had . |
| 4 | I did n't want to live with cancer hanging over me . |
| 5 | A great magnificent image that I did n't want to use as material for a silly magazine article , but which I just could n't resist sharing with everyone I knew and did n't know . |
| 6 | I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other . |
| 7 | What I really wanted to say I did n't want to put in writing . |
| 8 | It started on April 19th , a Sunday ; and the next day I did n't want to go to school . |
| 9 | And knitting needles that to my little fingers were like rolling pins you know and they were long and they got under my arms and I always used to have a tummy ache on knitting day cos I did n't want to go to school . |
| 10 | I 'm only here under duress because I did n't want to go to court over this nonsense . |
| 11 | If he did n't want to go to court for a very minor offence , then you could caution him . |
| 12 | I did n't want to go to bed , because I did n't want to miss anything . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew two sorts of women , ’ he said thickly , not looking at her , ‘ the women I loved but did n't want to go to bed with . |
| 14 | My erm , when I was little , I used to have this reoccuring dream , and it was really , really scary , and I just , I used to get really scared , I did n't want to go to sleep , in case I had this reoccuring dream , and what it was , was erm , I do n't know , I , I think I did n't like swimming when I was little , so that might , what sparked it off , and I could n't swim for ages |
| 15 | She did n't want to come on air . |
| 16 | We were numb ; we did n't want to speak for fear of returning to our banal selves again . |
| 17 | Part of the audience decided that this was n't what they wanted to see , another part decided they did n't want to hear about politics anymore . |
| 18 | The kids did n't want to know about life outside Battle Creek . |
| 19 | I did n't want to stay at home I wanted to get back into education and I did n't know how to the easiest way I suppose . |
| 20 | I wanted to go to work , I I did n't want to stay at school . |
| 21 | I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen . |
| 22 | I talked to some of the people around there because I did n't want to get into trouble . |
| 23 | I did n't want to get into trouble . |
| 24 | After all , you do n't want to die of AIDS — either during or after your college career . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't want to go to school , Mammy . |
| 26 | ‘ Mum , I really do n't want to go to school today , ’ he wailed . |
| 27 | Alice said , ‘ I do n't want to go to school today . |
| 28 | I 'll tell you something I do n't want to go to school . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't want to go to sleep . ’ |
| 30 | They do n't want to go to South East England . |