Example sentences of "[not/n't] want [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why we do not want to abandon the term inner city , either analytically or politically , only to ground it in the academic debates which have reproduced it conceptually , the political debates that have refashioned it discursively and , most significantly , the social injustices and inequalities that lend the term its emotive power and mobilising force . |
| 2 | And we did not want to miss the opportunity of having such a wonderful day , complete with the white wedding car . |
| 3 | But no , I do not want to take the chance myself in case it turns out to be a family weakness . |
| 4 | An elderly woman does not want to take the risk , hastily glances at the sharp blades of the door , retreats back to behind the faded white line and waits for the next train . |
| 5 | Gillray , in common with the vast majority of his public , did not want to take the Jacobin side . |
| 6 | According to Campaigns Director Andrew Lees , : " Given the potentially broad scope of such " areas " , the obstructive official has ample opportunity to rebuff requests by anyone whose request is not specific enough to penetrate the bureaucratic defences of a body which does not want to release the information . " |
| 7 | She did not want to cultivate the snob image . |
| 8 | I do not want to see the election lost on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 9 | We would not want to see the scheme a held up or at least , the timetable that we could set down . |
| 10 | I do not want to see the World . |
| 11 | ‘ I did not want to see the goalkeeper go off . |
| 12 | Ĺeonie did not want to see the ambulance from the clinic arrive . |
| 13 | We do not want to transform the world once again into a place for religious fighting . |
| 14 | I do not want to ignore the wood for the sake of labelling all the trees . |
| 15 | I start to speak , but I do not want to lose the smoke . |
| 16 | Although it was their wood , a place where they often came , Libby felt herself to be an intruder , she did not want to disturb the figure by the water , who was now breaking pieces of stick and dropping them at his feet . |
| 17 | I do not want to detain the House or myself for long , but I pay tribute to the role of the European Community and to the monitors who have served with considerable bravery and tenacity during the conflict . |
| 18 | He could have told this without turning to look ; but he did turn , because he did not want to give the Padre the impression that he was avoiding him . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman supports high spending and progressive teaching methods but seems indifferent to the results , which he does not want to give the public in any comprehensible form . |
| 20 | ‘ We do not want to give the impression that employees who have a drinking problem will lose their job , but rather that the Company is now in a position to help them without losing job security . |
| 21 | Since the Observer 's leaks , indignant ministers do not want to give the impression of being bounced into publication . |
| 22 | We do not want to carry the image of middle age in other people 's eyes , nor do we wish to think of ourselves as getting old . |
| 23 | Fru Gertlinger knew that Elisabeth did not want to unpick the past with her and she never made mention of it . |
| 24 | He does not want to antagonize the man . |
| 25 | In fact , the only serious problems at this ‘ stage involved children who did not want to leave the security of the one home they knew . |
| 26 | She did not want to leave the house now . |
| 27 | Another survey , by The Indy , the weekly paper for young people , found that the British teenager was happy at home and one in three did not want to leave the family nest . |
| 28 | Asked if the Russians had provided the Afghans with the latest MiG-29s , he said : ‘ Anything we desire will be given to us but we do not want to escalate the war . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Sweet does not want to farm the site , but dig it up for the valuable peat underneath . |
| 30 | Rosa in the chapel with her head bent over her hands , her legs stiff from kneeling , thought , We will go away together , somewhere different from here , to Africa , he said , he wanted to go there , and I will take care of him , we are like each other , we are both … and she hunted for the word because she did not want to use the word ‘ misfit ’ , and found ‘ changeling ’ . |