Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] not want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wainfleet did not want it back , the only reason he was carrying it around was that he had jotted a telephone number on the back . |
| 2 | Now that the old man knew of his weakness , Vashinov did not want the project to fail and thereby have the finger of incompetence pointed at him . |
| 3 | When Van Cheele got to London , Cunningham did not want to talk at first . |
| 4 | The EABA did not want the British fighters eliminating other nations ’ boxers , so ruled they must meet each other first before the survivor boxes against other European nations . |
| 5 | The spokesman , citing information received from Israel , said the PLO did not want Israel to look good in the world 's eyes for taking the refugees in , especially after having been widely criticised for recently expelling 400 Palestinians into a no man 's land in Lebanon . |
| 6 | The Sheldons do not want revenge . |
| 7 | Edward did not want that spell to end . |
| 8 | However , Herod did not want to kill John , because , the Bible tells us , ‘ He was afraid of John because he knew that John was a good and holy man . ’ |
| 9 | This was the question Richard did not want to answer . |
| 10 | FRANKIE DID NOT WANT to think of his mam and the Irishman . |
| 11 | At first she had been surprised when a flask and a chunk of bread had been tossed down to her that first night , until she had remembered that de Raimes did not want her dead just yet . |
| 12 | And Mr Gorbachev does not want Vietnam 's role in Kampuchea to mar his summit meeting next month in Begging with Mr Deng Xiaoping . |
| 13 | ‘ This is what Fael-Inis wanted , ’ thought Taliesin , and knew , even as the thought formed , that Fael-Inis had not wanted it , but that it had been necessary . |
| 14 | She was scribbling a note , but stopped when she saw Alice , with a smile that was both severe and weak , telling Alice that Pat had not wanted to face the business of goodbyes , and would now hurry through them . |
| 15 | Like the other English mystics , Hilton does not want the contemplative to agonise and strain unduly . |
| 16 | I had tried to tell him that the world had changed drastically , but Bonefish did not want to believe in change . |
| 17 | Maggie did not want to be a crazy person . |
| 18 | Maggie did not want to take her arms away from Phoebe , she needed to be held . |
| 19 | At the same time she was certain that Maggie did not want to have to cope with that . |
| 20 | A spokesperson at the Brazilian embassy in London said that Brazil did not want to become a regular base of support for the British presence in the Falkland Islands [ see also p. 37001 ] . |
| 21 | Fru Gertlinger knew that Elisabeth did not want to unpick the past with her and she never made mention of it . |
| 22 | After all those months of fighting the knowledge that Anthony did not want her much , it was a heavenly feeling . |
| 23 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 24 | At the end England did not want to know about coming forward . ’ |
| 25 | Giles did not want to worry his friend . |
| 26 | Karen did not want one . |
| 27 | Karen did not want to miss it , any more . |
| 28 | Léonie did not want to watch Thérèse clamber on his knee , twist her blonde curls with one finger , ogle him . |
| 29 | Monsieur Jagger does not want his wife to know and we are loyal to him . ’ |
| 30 | Jane had not wanted them to stay against their will , and once they were gone , she plunged into work . |