Example sentences of "not want [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are not bothered whether the house is detached or semi-detached , but you do not want to live on an estate . |
| 2 | Now I would not want to live in a country where my ex-wife and I were denied the right to another chance . ’ |
| 3 | In another passage evocative of past attempts to play the race card , Mr Tebbit wrote that ‘ most people in Britain did not want to live in a multicultural , multiracial society , but it has been foisted on them ’ . |
| 4 | Although you may not want to go on a course , or can not afford to , it is a good idea to ask a friend or relative you feel comfortable with to play the part of the interviewer and let you have a dummy run . |
| 5 | ‘ How could anyone not want to go for a sail on a day like this ? ’ |
| 6 | He used to say that he did not want to listen to a man like Beethoven , whose stormy music told his hearers all about himself and his troubles , but rather to hear the pure beauty of musical form , which so far as he was concerned reached its acme in Mozart 's classical perfection . |
| 7 | I do not want to return to a world in which the lights go out , there is no money in the country , we have to turn to the International Monetary Fund , and investment in the leading industries has to be cut back . |
| 8 | The work force want to return to a contract and yet do not want to return to a situation which takes away from their individual freedom and negotiating rights . |
| 9 | A recent objection came from a client who did not want to invest in a company that gave political donations . |
| 10 | Likely you 'll not want to stop for a cup of tea ? |
| 11 | When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble . |
| 12 | Tony did not want to work in a shop or a factory . |
| 13 | Enter Rita , a young , timid , nervous , woman in clinging red dress , lipstick to match and a pair of shoes in which you would not want to run for a bus . |
| 14 | When one tries , one invariably finds an activity that one 's definition includes but that one would not want to count as a game , or an activity that the definition excludes but that one would want to count as a game . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He did not want to appear at a loss or to let his followers down . |
| 17 | I did not want to appear like a delivery man . |
| 18 | ‘ I mean , I can understand you not wanting to go into a hostel , but from what you 're saying , a flat 's the sort of thing you want , is n't it ? ’ |