Example sentences of "not want [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not want to die and yet his increasing depression was making existence intolerable . |
| 2 | Julia closed her eyes , partly because that was a question she did not want to answer and partly because she thought it might help to stop her flinging her arms around his neck and saying , kiss me , oh please kiss me . |
| 3 | Clearly , a large part of the job of a person making a submission to the court is to ‘ know ’ the judge , to try to predict what the judge does and does not want to hear and so on . |
| 4 | Er one question less than five percent it will not be but I do n't want to go and indeed I , for reasons that er David outlined , I ca n't go , ca n't be precise , but er it 's not something to get scared about . |
| 5 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |
| 6 | You do n't want to leave that behind , do you ? ’ |
| 7 | I do n't know who you 're looking for and I do n't want to know but even I can see that whoever it is he wo n't be overjoyed to see you … ’ |
| 8 | But the last time I tried they did n't want to know because well nobody will take responsibility . |