Example sentences of "[not/n't] want [to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not want to go to prison again . |
| 2 | ‘ He did not want to go to prison , so he decided to try out one of the well-known methods of avoiding prison by offering his services as a police informer , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 3 | Intriguingly enough , the only way I can make Selina actually want to go to bed with me is by not wanting to go to bed with her . |
| 4 | Then , not wanting to return to bed , she made herself comfortable in the wicker armchair , her eyes gazing on her husband 's sleeping face . |
| 5 | She had not wanted to talk to Finn but she could not help it when he came and sat on the counter . |
| 6 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 7 | I did n't want to go to bed , because I did n't want to miss anything . |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't want to go to bed with me ? ’ |
| 9 | But I do n't want to go to bed with you . |
| 10 | I do n't want to go to bed with you , I 'm speaking about the situation . |
| 11 | I do n't want to go to bed . |
| 12 | The trouble is , when I do n't want to go to bed with her ( and it does happen ) , I do n't want to go to bed with her . |
| 13 | The trouble is , when I do n't want to go to bed with her ( and it does happen ) , I do n't want to go to bed with her . |
| 14 | Do n't want to go to bed ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I knew two sorts of women , ’ he said thickly , not looking at her , ‘ the women I loved but did n't want to go to bed with . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're not in love with him and you do n't want to go to bed with him , but you do love him . |
| 17 | you do n't want to go to bed with knots in your hair |
| 18 | But if she does n't want to go to university … ’ |
| 19 | They do n't want to go to South East England . |
| 20 | It started on April 19th , a Sunday ; and the next day I did n't want to go to school . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't want to go to school , Mammy . |
| 22 | ‘ Mum , I really do n't want to go to school today , ’ he wailed . |
| 23 | And knitting needles that to my little fingers were like rolling pins you know and they were long and they got under my arms and I always used to have a tummy ache on knitting day cos I did n't want to go to school . |
| 24 | Sometimes she does n't want to go to school at all . ’ |
| 25 | Alice said , ‘ I do n't want to go to school today . |
| 26 | I 'll tell you something I do n't want to go to school . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't want to go to sleep . ’ |
| 28 | My erm , when I was little , I used to have this reoccuring dream , and it was really , really scary , and I just , I used to get really scared , I did n't want to go to sleep , in case I had this reoccuring dream , and what it was , was erm , I do n't know , I , I think I did n't like swimming when I was little , so that might , what sparked it off , and I could n't swim for ages |
| 29 | I 'm only here under duress because I did n't want to go to court over this nonsense . |
| 30 | If he did n't want to go to court for a very minor offence , then you could caution him . |