Example sentences of "not want [to-vb] [prep] [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 | I do not want to go into detail now , but that is certain . |
| 4 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 5 | I do not want to go into detail about how I get on with Michael . |
| 6 | One Friday afternoon , I looked steadily at one of those great green trees for ten minutes , and knew then I would not want to teach in grammar schools for ever . |
| 7 | The boat was too small for a long journey , and I did not want to die at sea . |
| 8 | We do not want to talk about south-west regional cream instead of Devonshire produce , roast beef and north-east regional pudding or Greater Manchester hot-pot . |
| 9 | The family did not want to talk about politics but they asked about Mrs Zamzam 's health . |
| 10 | Suppose a company has a training policy that women over 50 and men over 55 will not be reimbursed correspondence course fees because the company does not want to pay for training unless it can get at least ten years benefit from that training . |
| 11 | On the other hand she did not want to stand until dawn , and she did want the French words to go on being threaded together . |
| 12 | I had tried to tell him that the world had changed drastically , but Bonefish did not want to believe in change . |
| 13 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 14 | ‘ It is a very distressing case , We do n't know what the full facts are , and I would not want to comment in detail . |
| 15 | We do n't know what the full facts are , and I would not want to comment in detail , ’ he added . |
| 16 | We do n't know what the full facts are and I would not want to comment in detail . |
| 17 | Klein et al ( 1965 ) found that many older people hesitated to talk about the past because they did not want to meet with rejection , and that many actually needed help and encouragement to reminisce . |
| 18 | Management did not want to experiment with work reorganization , employee control and management style ‘ in a corner ’ . |
| 19 | Perhaps the relationship is still continuing , but the boyfriend does not want to know about pregnancy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Then , not wanting to return to bed , she made herself comfortable in the wicker armchair , her eyes gazing on her husband 's sleeping face . |
| 22 | By the time I am curled up in my bag I am totally content , warm and well fed , exhausted but not wanting to sleep for fear of missing these moments of happiness . |
| 23 | I ca n't , ’ replied Endill , not wanting to get into trouble . |
| 24 | She had not wanted to talk to Finn but she could not help it when he came and sat on the counter . |
| 25 | What I really wanted to say I did n't want to put in writing . |
| 26 | ‘ I would n't want to go through life as a miracle-worker . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I did n't want to go to bed , because I did n't want to miss anything . |
| 29 | ‘ You do n't want to go to bed with me ? ’ |
| 30 | But I do n't want to go to bed with you . |