Example sentences of "[verb] not want [to-vb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in my mind that they did not want to kill me , but Isay was left to face them alone . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I think you do remember , ’ said Mahmoud , ‘ but you do not want to tell me . |
| 4 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 5 | My parents did n't want to let me go , but I begged them and promised to come back very quickly . |
| 6 | ‘ She said she did n't want to disturb me but she needed my advice . |
| 7 | But instead of prevaricating and procrastinating she came over all gooey , stroking my hand and squeezing my arm and saying she did n't want to lose me but she was frightened , frightened and confused , she did n't know what to do . |
| 8 | I suddenly realised that she really did n't want to lose me . |
| 9 | And then he had a job , they had a job for him you know , and of course I he did n't want to leave me , Well I said , You can go , I said , it 's alright if I 'm going to sell , I said , that would be alright . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought you did n't want to see me . |
| 11 | He did n't want to see me or talk to me , he or his parents . |
| 12 | Initially my son did n't want to see me , the youngest girl thought it was her fault and tried to put it right , while the middle one seemed completely untouched by the whole thing . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought he was laughing at me , that he did n't want to see me , but then he stopped me and he made me a little bow , just like a real gentleman , and gave me a present , as if he did care . |
| 14 | But she smiled again and said , " I 'd understand if you did n't want to see me any more , " and looked down , away from him , at her feet . |
| 15 | You said yourself she did n't want to give me away , in the letter . ’ |
| 16 | Elaine did n't want to give me away — Miss Rose said so . |
| 17 | She asked me for nothing more , she did n't want to cause me problems , but I could n't just walk away from her . |
| 18 | In any case , he did n't want to marry me — afraid his uncle would n't approve , which he would n't . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I know you did n't want to marry me , but how do you think I was supposed to feel with the papers splashing pictures of you with Dara twined round you in Japan and Melbourne ? |
| 20 | I know you did n't want to marry me , but ‘ t is not as though I 'm forcing myself on you ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ 'T WAS you who did n't want to marry me , ’ she cried , trying to drown out the tormenting echo . |
| 22 | Sarin did n't want to tell me , then he said I 'd know soon enough , and better from him than over the radio . |
| 23 | When I asked her things like that , she did n't want to tell me on other occasions , she said I know that I ca n't tell you . |
| 24 | After that he did n't want to race me any more ! |
| 25 | It said that he had a big problem he did n't want to bother me with , but that if anything happened to him , I was to pass on this envelope to you . |
| 26 | ‘ He did n't want to kiss me … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 28 | All through the pregnancy I felt special , then suddenly all my friends did n't want to know me , only one friend , Karen , and she made me feel worse , as she was so glamorous and I was sitting there all fat . |
| 29 | ‘ Whichever one , they did n't want to know me anymore . ’ |
| 30 | He did n't want to waste yet another that way ; he did n't want to make me a betrayer ; he wanted to keep me , as far as he still could . |