Example sentences of "did [not/n't] want [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family did not want to talk about politics but they asked about Mrs Zamzam 's health . |
| 2 | The boat was too small for a long journey , and I did not want to die at sea . |
| 3 | I did not want to go to prison again . |
| 4 | ‘ He did not want to go to prison , so he decided to try out one of the well-known methods of avoiding prison by offering his services as a police informer , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 5 | I had tried to tell him that the world had changed drastically , but Bonefish did not want to believe in change . |
| 6 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 7 | On the other hand she did not want to stand until dawn , and she did want the French words to go on being threaded together . |
| 8 | Management did not want to experiment with work reorganization , employee control and management style ‘ in a corner ’ . |
| 9 | Klein et al ( 1965 ) found that many older people hesitated to talk about the past because they did not want to meet with rejection , and that many actually needed help and encouragement to reminisce . |
| 10 | It was your company that I did n't want to swear in front of |
| 11 | I did n't want to die like Granny had . |
| 12 | I did n't want to live with cancer hanging over me . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What I really wanted to say I did n't want to put in writing . |
| 16 | It started on April 19th , a Sunday ; and the next day I did n't want to go to school . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I 'm only here under duress because I did n't want to go to court over this nonsense . |
| 19 | If he did n't want to go to court for a very minor offence , then you could caution him . |
| 20 | I did n't want to go to bed , because I did n't want to miss anything . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | She did n't want to come on air . |
| 24 | We were numb ; we did n't want to speak for fear of returning to our banal selves again . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The kids did n't want to know about life outside Battle Creek . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I wanted to go to work , I I did n't want to stay at school . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I talked to some of the people around there because I did n't want to get into trouble . |