Example sentences of "do n't [vb infin] them [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want them to see me crying . |
| 2 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 3 | When we were small our loved parents would sometimes leave us when we did n't want them to go . |
| 4 | And Ve Vera phoned this morning , Joe phoned this morning an all I did n't want them to go out , anyway I 've made arrangements to go round to see Vera on Friday afternoon and they they went out to where was it ? |
| 5 | Bit my lip — did n't want them dragging me back in there for a patient . |
| 6 | Michael Harvey said , ‘ She did n't want them to shoot her husband ; I did n't think she was particularly pro-anything . |
| 7 | But he was glad he 'd been able to fend off too many probing journalistic questions about her ; he did n't want them publishing any comments about her at this stage , that was sure . |
| 8 | Er Mr Ashdown says er no reason to disagree with him , that he was always in favour of the things in the social contract , but he did n't want them handled in that kind of manner . |
| 9 | She did n't want them to do anything then . |
| 10 | I did n't want them living with me , in my Galaxy . |
| 11 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
| 12 | Young Gareth did n't want them to give up , they said , but Mr Vickers senior told him you 'd be all right even if you had got lost . |
| 13 | I did n't want them fussing , trying to persuade me to give up and come home … ! ’ |
| 14 | This is a highly competitive field and I did n't want them to rule me out when it comes to promotion because they think I lack commitment . |
| 15 | I did n't want them noticing me even a little . |
| 16 | You did n't want them to look as well : you wanted them to look better . |
| 17 | She did n't want them to know that her life had been quite a privileged one . |
| 18 | I could n't bear that they should always pay for me because I did n't want them to know how awful Robert had become . |
| 19 | The suggestion about the car had come from the rifleman — he 'd asked if I had a car , and I 'd said yes , because I did n't want them to know that I 'd come by boat . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't want them to know , ’ she said quietly . |
| 21 | The fear was in not being able to keep up , in looking stupid ; it kept him going , he did n't want them to know he was scared of falling too . |
| 22 | She did n't want them to know she was out here . |
| 23 | It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go . |
| 24 | And he did n't want them saying that . |
| 25 | Stavros and Loadsamoney have gone because he did n't want them to become repetitive and boring , but in their place are newcomers like The Rugby Players — three middle-class yobbos whose hobbies including drinking and mooning at women — space travellers The Aliens , seen trying to learn English , and world 's worst publican Leslie Norris , who ca n't remember anything he is told . |
| 26 | He did n't want them to become stale . |
| 27 | Well you did n't want them sitting till dark then go off did you ? |
| 28 | He did n't want them to follow him thinking that he was just a free ride , a free ticket for all their problems a and difficulties . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're headin' for the guys who 're doin' all the shootin' up ahead … the ones we hid from in the tunnel back there … they must be friends of his … maybe cops or somethin' … if Angel One did n't want them to find us … ’ |
| 30 | Louise : That 's what I said , but it did n't make them change their minds . |