Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] n't want " in BNC.
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| 1 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The fans do n't want all that , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Er mummy do n't want that I 've had enough |
| 4 | Bonanza did n't want to waste time arguing about payment in an emergency . ’ |
| 5 | If those trainers did n't want to end up in a splash they 'd better get out of the way before I … |
| 6 | It was conflict 's sake , what the tenants association did n't want was a solution , it wanted a lovely , publicity-generating conflict . |
| 7 | Their husbands do n't want them to do anything which is not passive , and in the end women end up believing the same . |
| 8 | Er , particularly since it was only half right , or you could n't exactly tell which half , not very clearly , so if it 's half by Freud , and er , it was a book erm , on erm , a controversial figure arguing over very controversial pieces , and I think the psychoanalytic study did n't want to have anything to do with it , and er , er , one of the reviews of the psychoanalytic journal that said that this is the kind of book that gets psychoanalysis a bad name . |
| 9 | Dennis did n't want anything to change that . |
| 10 | Jay would not be shut out and from what she could tell , Lucy did n't want to shut her out . |
| 11 | Bella did n't want to be called guilty ; her instinct was always for ambiguity . |
| 12 | ‘ If clients do n't want you to touch them , they just say no . |
| 13 | Dot did n't want anything to change . |
| 14 | Dot did n't want that . |
| 15 | Dot did n't want to have to go away somewhere . |
| 16 | Dot did n't want to forget all about it . |
| 17 | Dot did n't want to hurt its face so she placed her knees carefully to one side of the lamb so that they pressed into the sewn field of flowers on the edge . |
| 18 | The future was still uncertain enough for Morley to declare ‘ U2 do n't want to be cultish . |
| 19 | U2 do n't want to be cultish . |
| 20 | Benny said she did n't want anyone they did n't know , and it was with some relief that they heard the niece Clodagh did n't want to go amongst strangers either . |
| 21 | The kids did n't want to know about life outside Battle Creek . |
| 22 | Towards the end of this review I put in a call to Ovation 's distributors , Korg UK , to check on some details , and after raving on about what a great guitar I though it was I was told that Korg did n't want it back . |
| 23 | Manufacturers do n't want computers to suffer the same fate as educational TV — a lot of promise but precious little worthwhile application . |
| 24 | I DO N'T WONDER ANGIE DID N'T WANT TO PLAY WITH YOU . |
| 25 | Ken did n't want to be thought wanting by people for whom he had respect . |
| 26 | Ken did n't want to think there was any remnant of a woman 's sexual smell on a man he had previously trusted as one of his own . |
| 27 | The animals did n't want to go near him so I took care of him . |
| 28 | Reader 's Digest , article on road traffic accidents , never starts , ‘ Last year there were fifty thousand road traffic accidents in the British Isles ’ , because Reader 's Digest readers do n't want to read that . |
| 29 | ‘ Mummy did n't want me to come here , ’ she told Anne in what Anne thought of as a ‘ far back ’ voice , ‘ but I did n't want to arse around playing Lady Bountiful I wanted to do real war work . |
| 30 | And the animals do n't want get up do they ? |