Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to go to a new school . |
| 2 | Now she did n't want to go to an expensive restaurant in the West End . |
| 3 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 4 | We do n't want to go in the other room and watch the nasties do we ? |
| 5 | " Jenny , I do n't want to sound like an old auntie , but you are not being very sensible about Matthew . " |
| 6 | Frustrated I can not land what I want to do , and do n't want to settle for the wrong thing . |
| 7 | I was told by released French hostages that he did attempt to escape , that he was beaten very badly , and that basically his spirit at that time was , was , was broken ; he did n't want to talk with the other hostages in the room and he pretty much had withdrawn . |
| 8 | Sub-text : ‘ I 'm not making myself vulnerable , I do n't want to deal with the unpredictable or get close to you . ’ |
| 9 | She explains that her husband is away for the evening and she does n't want to return to an empty house . |
| 10 | In fact , unreasonable behaviour is often used as a means of getting a quickie divorce where husband and wife both want one but do n't want to wait for the two-year separation period ; and because the age of chivalry is still not dead , men are often willing to let their wives petition for divorce when the fault is fifty-fifty , or even when the women are more to blame . |
| 11 | And most people were desperate to get stuff in them days , you know they did n't want to wait till the following week so they tried to get it paid as best they could |
| 12 | I would n't want to die in a strange land . ’ |
| 13 | You do n't want to dabble with the blonde Richard while she walks in Nevil 's shade . ’ |
| 14 | He says I do n't want to live to a massive building site … |
| 15 | Of course she was interested — who would n't want to live in an ancient castle ? |
| 16 | The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child . |
| 17 | Hurwitz says they need to go public to sell their products to large corporations who do n't want to mess with a small privately held firm . |
| 18 | We would n't want to comment on the comparative merits of your Minitex and Barbara Smith 's Erka which we show below but it is interesting that the Minitex cost £42.10s.0d in 1950 and the Erka 45 guineas in 1960 . |
| 19 | I asked her if she always painted with such alacrity and her answer came as something of a relief , ‘ I like to enjoy painting , so ofttimes I paint much more slowly , it 's like eating , you do n't want to rush through a great meal ’ . |
| 20 | He held his hands up and proclaimed : ‘ I do n't want to get into a big row over this and therefore I wo n't offend Woman 's Own Own and say they 're wrong . |
| 21 | she wo n't , she 's , she 's just on the , oh I do n't want to work in a boring office we 've , we 've tried to say not , you do n't have to work , it 's an in , it 's an in to what you want |
| 22 | It was made up of friends , of people he enjoyed being with , and he did n't want to become like the other teams with their heavy commercial involvements . |
| 23 | She did n't want to come against the flat slack flesh . |
| 24 | He was n't happy , but could only agree when I said I was sure that he would n't want to look at a naked man . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't want to think about that , I do n't want to look at the actual scene , I 've got over it , have n't I ? … the way she died … and all that went before . |
| 26 | It was true , she did n't want to look like a timid imitation of Faye , but at the same time the possibility of learning more about style was an attractive one . |
| 27 | You would n't think getting into the rough there would be such a problem if you saw it nowadays . |
| 28 | Hours of hard work on a dyno have produced extra horsepower , which Ian says he ca n't wait to unleash on the British Clubmans ' Championship . |
| 29 | Maggie sat at the table , thinking that she did n't know about the proposed camp but could n't wait to get at the promised bathing facilities . |
| 30 | ‘ The rest of the local people ca n't wait to get into the new houses . ’ |