Example sentences of "they [vb past] n't [adv] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if they did n't even want anyone to know they 'd been inside . ’ |
| 2 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 3 | Finally it was time to tackle the design of the hotel 's talking-point — the vast fresh-water swimming-pool Stephen planned to construct to cater for guests who , having come thousands of miles to see the Caribbean , decided they did n't actually want to swim in it . |
| 4 | But they did n't say they did n't ever want to ever drive a car again . |
| 5 | They did n't only want lumps on their heads |
| 6 | He even bullied the women who came into his shop , selling them things they did n't really want to buy and refusing to stock things that they did . |
| 7 | So they said , well they did n't really want another granny but they , they wanted to adopt a granddad . |
| 8 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 9 | And they did n't really want them back at that time . |