Example sentences of "want to have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want to have to talk . ’ |
| 2 | She was part of a team and content to be just that ; she did n't want to have to leave the protective colouring her job gave her in the safety of the laboratory . |
| 3 | She felt flattered by the suggestion , not that any of it was true of course , but she did n't want to have to explain the time she spent on her own in the flat , inventing things to do . |
| 4 | They wanted more adventurous meals , but did n't want to have to cook them . ’ |
| 5 | Equally , they wanted to be able to reduce their manpower as orders were completed and did not want to have to carry excess staff during slack periods . |
| 6 | Yeah I know , I do n't want to have to carry a big one back with me though . |
| 7 | Naturally , Pearl does n't want to have to repeat this replacement process for some time . |
| 8 | Bismarck was alarmed ; he did not want to have to choose between his allies in a Balkan quarrel . |
| 9 | She did not ring for a nurse because she did n't want to have to seem cheerful and she remembered from the two births of her live children , which had gone well , that this was a rule in hospitals . |
| 10 | ‘ I like to think that I have a lot to offer as well and I do n't want to have to wait years before I get the opportunity to prove myself . |
| 11 | And I do n't want to have to lie to them . |
| 12 | It might be part of her job to parade through the ballroom but she surely did n't want to have to prattle facts and figures for what she was wearing now , a skin-tight concoction of bugle heads and sequins that probably cost more than she 'd make for the entire year . |
| 13 | And I did n't want to have to turn to her and say , " Is it all right if I let so-and-so take my son out ? " |
| 14 | She did n't ever want to have to see him . |
| 15 | Dot did n't want to have to go away somewhere . |
| 16 | I do n't want to have to go through those hellish noises for a third time . ’ |
| 17 | He did n't want to have to go back there again — not until he was protected by the Dominican habit , anyway . |
| 18 | How can I get around this — I do n't want to have to go back to EDLIN ! |
| 19 | I do n't want to have to go into the city every week for it . |
| 20 | It 's er you know it 's completely okay to take and stop taking it , and you wo n't want to have to go on . |
| 21 | I do n't want to have to go through all this again . |
| 22 | I was , however , sure about one thing : I did n't want to have to take that flat . |
| 23 | I do n't want to have to take orders from some Foreign Office fairy . ’ |
| 24 | I do n't want to have to take out a new mortgage every time I move up the ladder . |
| 25 | Yeah but I just do n't want to have to take it out |
| 26 | If I 'm interviewing you at half past twelve for a piece for the one o'clock news , I do n't want to have to take out reams and reams and reams of tape . |
| 27 | We do n't want to have to do the work twice . " |
| 28 | I do n't really want to have to do too many commit myself till the ammunition 's here , but we are in fact , actually er , addressing this very specific issue . |
| 29 | I 'd never want to have to do that again . |
| 30 | They pay lip service to equality but they do n't want to have to do anything committed about it . |