Example sentences of "[conj] we do n't want " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Pentagon official said : ‘ It puts us in a position between Iran and Iraq where we do n't want to be . |
| 2 | Things that we do n't want to remember may be indelibly engraved on the mind , little eroded even by time , but million of unimportant things are blissfully forgotten — which is just as well for our mental health ! |
| 3 | Then , just when we think we 've really let go , we realise that we do n't want our children making just any old choice . |
| 4 | And say that we do n't want anyone to get hurt . |
| 5 | ‘ For us , ’ explains Derry , ‘ success is something that we do n't want , spiritually , if you like … ’ |
| 6 | Like she says I think the position is exes effectively what we 're trying to reinforce is that we do n't want any heros |
| 7 | And that we do n't want to put up anything that 'll be a stumbling block , to people coming . |
| 8 | In fact , I 'd reject every plan handed in today — on the grounds that we do n't want railways operated by skin-of-the-teeth men . ’ |
| 9 | It 's just that we do n't want anything to ruffle the Khedive 's hair just when the negotiations are approaching a delicate stage . ’ |
| 10 | I think the problem 's been is the problem 's been is that we do n't want to let any business go |
| 11 | When we 're in the class full of people , and we do n't have the incentive , that we do n't want to do A Level English for it 's own sake , but for another goal which is one further removed . |
| 12 | Darlington should tell the organisers that we do n't want this exhibition . ’ |
| 13 | I 'll ask them , cos we 're not allowed to have anything private on here that we do n't want |
| 14 | And be doing all our they will be gon na come and do all the jobs that we do n't want like in , in catering and , and things like that . |
| 15 | I mean , you had where you , it was a hotel , you had to watch where you can take the children into the not that that 's a place that we do n't want to take you , there 's places they do n't want children . |
| 16 | Well we 've all got things that we do n't want to do have n't we ? |
| 17 | There is no need for us to actually have to drill into people , that we do n't want to be bullied , pushed around , and that nine times out of ten , the violence or the bullying is male to female . |
| 18 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 19 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 20 | Patiently , I went through the same arguments that I 'd used with Mazzin himself , emphasizing that we did n't want any trouble but would n't tolerate abuse , and that we felt Islamic Jihad did n't want to cause us unnecessary distress . |
| 21 | That we did n't want to put too many people on the back of the people actually doing the work . |
| 22 | Er the work that I 've referred to earlier in terms of the through traffic , was assessed before the southern bypass was open er and so we did put in place er a traffic automatic traffic counters on a number of key routes er to see whether on opening of the southern bypass , the actual effects er where the same as we were modelling cos clearly we were concerned that we did n't want to be er basing our assessments of of of of further relief roads on a false premise . |
| 23 | are we to say that we did n't want it to be Prince |
| 24 | Right , so we do n't want that one , we want this one ? |
| 25 | It means do n't wear your best clothes , there 'll be some girls who do n't have best clothes , so we do n't want any showing off . |
| 26 | Add them when you 're multiplying , times them when you raise them to a power , so we do n't want to start changing this to one over and things , because we 'll lose that easy way of doing things . |
| 27 | My husband and I had always lamented not learning to ski as young children so we did n't want Jessica , our two-year-old , to miss out too . |
| 28 | I think we oil , so we did n't want them . |
| 29 | Now this is where you come in erm and this is where we 've we 've done something which er we think is quite clever , this here is the back facade of Barley Hall and when we got it it was not medieval at all , there was no timber framing left , it was just this this er brick here , so we did n't want to fake it up to look medieval on the outside . |
| 30 | Remember to keep these screws well back , to be hidden by the frame , because although the Faithful kneeling at the altar are meant to have their minds on other things , this is professional woodwork and we do n't want them peering up the legs of our fixings . |