Example sentences of "they [verb] n't [adv] want [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally it was time to tackle the design of the hotel 's talking-point — the vast fresh-water swimming-pool Stephen planned to construct to cater for guests who , having come thousands of miles to see the Caribbean , decided they did n't actually want to swim in it . |
| 2 | He even bullied the women who came into his shop , selling them things they did n't really want to buy and refusing to stock things that they did . |
| 3 | I should think I mean , one of the guys he does the and they do n't even want to do the word . |
| 4 | you know they will have to do that sort of thing as part of a a job and they do n't really want to spend time doing it . |
| 5 | And they do n't really want to go on using you as a a sort of prop , because I mean you ca n't afford that because you 've got lots of other clients and you , you know really the aim is to try and get them back to self-sufficiency . |
| 6 | I find some people on the streets are quite like , pigheaded and they do n't really want to go back for some reason really . |
| 7 | She felt solitary and isolated , as though she were missing out on something very necessary , while the others discussed their families , raising their eyes to heaven , complaining about the circumstances of their lives in that particular way women do when they do n't really want to change a thing . |