Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So then Berndt and the old witch will know I 'm as smart as they do n't want me to be , AND that I 've been poking around in high-security files . |
| 2 | The police did n't want me to be sentenced , which I was stunned about . |
| 3 | ‘ You did n't want me to be hurt ? |
| 4 | ‘ You would n't want me to be vain . |
| 5 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 6 | I do n't want him to be unhappy and have a breakdown . |
| 7 | I did n't want him to be too uptight or tense , so I kept the jokes coming . |
| 8 | ‘ We do n't want him to be compromised . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And I would n't want him to be associated in any way with what happened here last season . ’ |
| 10 | Let him be Gazza — you should n't want him to be anyone else . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm fond of old Jack , I would n't want him to be hurt , ’ she would say with a sigh when we discussed the difficulties of meeting her current lover without Jack finding out . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't want him to be an actor , ’ said Cis . |
| 13 | We do n't want him to be sick now . ’ |
| 14 | He did n't want him to be Occultated . |
| 15 | She did n't want him to be a man with any redeeming qualities . |
| 16 | She did n't want him to be able to appreciate thunderstorms . |
| 17 | ‘ Would n't want them to be teaching us . |
| 18 | ‘ Because when we do join up on the Monday , I do n't want them to be going into the game cold . |
| 19 | President-elect Clinton , in the second day of his barnstorming session on the economy in Little Rock , Arkansas said of the IBM cut-backs ‘ That kind of investment is the exact thing we do n't want them to be cutting . ’ |
| 20 | We do n't want them to be with us . |
| 21 | We did n't tell them about the Germans because we did n't want them to be more worried than they were already . |
| 22 | Since I 've recently had my car radio stolen I 'm quite in favour of them not being sold at the car boot sales perhaps somebody would like to returns it to me but erm , the , you know , I 'm er you know they do need some restr , some legislation but I would n't want them to be legislated out of existence . |
| 23 | Bud did n't want them to be done anyway . |
| 24 | No I do n't want them to be there . |
| 25 | I do n't want her to be alone . ’ |
| 26 | Not that I was trying to hide where she came from , but I did n't want her to be singled out . |
| 27 | Remember , she thinks you 're the King and we do n't want her to be angry with him , do we ? ’ |
| 28 | I did n't want her to be evacuated without me , but I 'd never have left the old ladies . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ No — I do n't want her to be dragged into this mess , ’ Laura had told him firmly . |
| 30 | Oh yeah I do n't want her to be better off er for when I die |