Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] want i " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work . |
| 2 | No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’ |
| 3 | Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise . |
| 4 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 5 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 6 | Later I found that Mains did not want me watching his team train ‘ because I knew too much about rugby ’ and would tell the opposition of his plans . |
| 7 | The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me . |
| 8 | They did not want me to stop work to write or to see them . |
| 9 | My father and Elizabeth did not want me to go to England alone , because I had been so ill . |
| 10 | Felipe did not want me to go but my father listened to no one . |
| 11 | They did n't want me at this party , but because I AM , fang and claw I have grapple-hooked their smooth cliffs , and have the right to stalk these wooded cliffs , lap at their abundant streams . |
| 12 | They did n't want me to wear saris . |
| 13 | ‘ They obviously did n't want me , so I wo n't apply , ’ he said . |
| 14 | He did n't want me to worry about my health . |
| 15 | I had beaten some of the sprinters selected for the invitation 60 metres and yet Frank Dick did n't want me to run . |
| 16 | She did n't want me to … women 's things … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But when we got married and I had two children he did n't want me to work any more , and he got very jealous of other men looking at me . |
| 18 | ‘ I know you did n't want me to come here tonight , but there is an enchanted magician in that box and I promised him that I would get him to you so that you could change him back . |
| 19 | She did n't tell me because she did n't want me to feel worse about them . |
| 20 | ‘ I offered to coach them for nothing but they said they did n't want me , ’ he added . |
| 21 | Manchester-based Mark , at No. 19 with I Found Heaven , reveals : ‘ My mum did n't want me wasting my time trying to be a pop star and I came very close to quitting the group . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought she did n't want me to come . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps she did n't want me to worry about it . |
| 24 | ‘ When I came out , all my friends were inside and my family did n't want me . |
| 25 | I was disappointed that Yorkshire did n't want me , but quite a few players have made good careers for themselves after slipping through their net and I am determined to become another . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Me daughters did n't want me to do it . |
| 27 | He did n't want me to try it , 'cos he knew that I 'd like it . |
| 28 | ‘ If you did n't want me to hit you , you should have kept your mouth shut . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Your Gran did n't want me around when you came visiting with Sarah and her family — wanted to have you to herself , she told me . |
| 30 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |