Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] not want " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real reason is I am frightened what folk will say , or I do not want to give up this particular habit of mine . |
| 2 | Where she did not want to be exact , she hinted : secreting at the back of her mind the disgust , the shame … |
| 3 | Blinds on their own can fit any atmosphere , particularly if windows are awkward , small or you did not want to lose too much light . |
| 4 | Thus attempting to coerce a person into doing something he or she does not want to do — i.e. infringing on the person 's autonomy — places that individual in increased peril of illness , injury , attack by wild animals or malevolent ‘ spirits ’ , or any of the other innumerable dangers that menace constantly . |
| 5 | Thirdly , irrespective of the source or Priority of the information , any Particular individual will psychologically " filter " out what he or she does not think important , or what he or she does not want to know . |
| 6 | This is particularly appropriate when the wearer is in a meeting or in a public place , such as the hotel foyer , where he does not want attention drawn to his pager . |
| 7 | But he had a problem : the card she had so rapidly thrust into his hand was her business card , no home address , just Belmodes , Mouncy Street , which he knew but where he did not want to wait to visit . |
| 8 | Against the use of a letter it must be noted that it is not easy to write a short but very clear letter explaining everything the informant may want to know , and if the recipient decides that she or he does not want to co-operate then she/he is warned in advance of the interviewer 's call . |
| 9 | I was so bruised and exhausted that I did not feel strong enough to walk home , and although I did not want to , I had to spend the night at Wuthering Heights . |
| 10 | I was pleased that he could come , although I did not want him to discover anything about my horrible work . |
| 11 | For once , here is a project that I do not want to know more about . |
| 12 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
| 13 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 14 | ( If my private test convinces me that I do not want what you think I want , I assume error in your reading of me the public tests , which I must expose or leave you unanswered . ) |
| 15 | My main reason for not introducing elliptic integrals here ( you can though attempt Examples 3.9–3.11 if you wish to have some experience in handling them ) is that I do not want to burden your memory with new formulae , and besides , for cases of most practical interest ( the field far away from the ring and in the vicinity of the axis ) eqn ( 3.56 ) may be integrated out , as will be presently seen . |
| 16 | Eventually I convinced him that I did not want anything . |
| 17 | I had decided that all my stuff was irretrievably lost ; that I did not want to continue my projected journey but would strike out and do something different — go to Ecuador perhaps and if possible from there into Brazil . |
| 18 | . I decided that I did not want to stay until the moment of his death , I wanted to remember him living … but I decided that I wanted to stay just to ensure that he was in a deep peaceful sleep , that he was n't going to suffer … and that 's what I did . |
| 19 | The first reason is that I did not want to advertise to anyone interested that a new swim had been create and cultivated . |
| 20 | The room , and the view , and the two people , seemed so calm that I did not want to disturb them . |
| 21 | Anyway , the point is this that I am going to say as far as I 'm concerned I 'm gon na put all my maximum ability in making sure that this government stands by its obligation which it gave me when I wrote to the Prime Minister because I was very very concerned that I did not want to see the old people and pensioners who was having difficulty in making ends meet , suffer further and therefore I am with you when it comes to concerning yourself in relation to the O A P's or the pensioners or any one who is suffering because of the s seventeen and o half percent , the maximum is put on . |
| 22 | But Finn came and sat beside her and gave her another cream bun , which she accepted gladly as a token of friendship , although she did not want it . |
| 23 | But there were other things , things she remembered hearing had happened , although she did not want to alarm her daughter by warning her against them . |
| 24 | ‘ Or is it the case , as millions now believe , that she does not want a resolution to this dispute ? ’ |
| 25 | He fears , as this moving tableau blots out his view , that she does not want to look at him but , then , just as he is allowing himself this painful thought , she turns and kisses him on the eyes before taking his cock in her mouth . |
| 26 | She had also said that she did not want an epidural . |
| 27 | When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble . |
| 28 | We were due to record a longish interview with her one afternoon , and over lunch at her favourite restaurant in Basil Street my producer Anthony Rouse and I both asked if there was any subject in her long life that she did not want touched upon . |
| 29 | Yet I now had to accept , if not yet understand , that Margaret 's fundamental reason for not remarrying was the plain fact that she did not want to . |
| 30 | ‘ Thank Heavens for William , ’ she has since said as it meant she could now quite properly forsake the pills she was proffered by arguing that she did not want to risk physical or mental deformity in the baby she was carrying . |