Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not [adv] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 2 | I do n't know how to — I do not even want to — dispel this cold mist left over from the fog . |
| 3 | ‘ I do not even want to share you with him . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed , as far as -my self-interest is concerned , on what principle could I choose as an end sufficient in itself something which I do not spontaneously want ? |
| 5 | THIS is such a delicious offering , of the kind that makes you chuckle in recollection on the way home , that I do not really want to give the game away by saying too much about what goes on . |
| 6 | I would like the same amount of performance as from the petrol engine therefore I do not really want a Land Rover Diesel . |
| 7 | I must admit that I do not always want to go to work but once I am there I nearly always have a really good time . |
| 8 | At the time , the idea of a strong exclusive relationship was something that I did not actually want and I do n't think that even consciously at that time , I would have sought to have had that kind of relationship with David who was considerably younger than me and also , even though I was deeply into the whole scene and everything it represented , I do n't think I actually wanted to settle down with somebody who was a musician and was leading that sort of life style . |
| 9 | Except that we were never completely apart , my love , for you were always beside me , and you were always there , and I think that without you there there were times when I should certainly have been crushed by the weight of a Crown I did not really want . |
| 10 | As I did not now want her to guess my real reason for keeping quiet on this other matter , I used the truth , if not all the truth . |
| 11 | It must be remembered that you do not just want someone whose opinion is going to carry weight but someone who is also going to provide persuasive evidence both in their report and at trial . |
| 12 | Is a certain situation or a certain person tempting you to eat the things you do not really want ? |
| 13 | And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother . |
| 14 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 15 | Lisa always knew she did not really want her baby adapted , and before she was even born had decided against it . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd better try to find the prisoners , ’ said Fenella at last , although she did not really want to leave the comparative safety of the wood-store . |
| 17 | ‘ She said she did not really want to go back to university and my husband told her she did not have to if she did not want to . |
| 18 | A LETTER from Greta Garbo shows she did not always want to be alone . |
| 19 | She does not principally want to know what the data signify in themselves but how texts reflect processes of communication , and how and why they were used to organise purposeful action , make valid claims , or to express feelings . |
| 20 | For , like the most envious of step-mothers , she does not really want to leave anything worth having to John Major at all ; she wishes to live in Thatcherland , surrounded by mirrors all perpetually claiming her to be the one and only . |
| 21 | If in addition we require that the production function is said to satisfy the Inada ( 1963 ) conditions , but we do not necessarily want to impose these restrictions . |
| 22 | They did not particularly want that , but it was foisted upon them . |
| 23 | They did not therefore want to suggest of Christ that he was another God , which would create a polytheistic situation . |
| 24 | They did not really want to be mutineers , but they were afraid of Tom Smith . |
| 25 | They did not really want Edward du Cann- he was recognised as having been disloyal to Ted Heath , and his City activities , with Lonrho and Keyser Ullman , were not universally accepted . |
| 26 | Creative people are often not business minded , and they do not even want to acquire such skills as self-promotion and image-projection , let alone scrabble about with the nitty-gritty of lucre . |
| 27 | A clever organiser with a history tutor on his hands may persuade the citizens of Chipping Camden that they do not really want a class in biology , they want one on Queen Victoria : but ( make no mistake ) that very persuasion will to some extent have injured the mainspring of voluntaryism in adult education in Chipping Camden . |
| 28 | Clearly if users present for treatment in ‘ bad faith ’ , that is , they do not really want to try to come off but are being either coerced or attempting to deceive ‘ authority ’ , then it is unlikely treatment will succeed . |
| 29 | Only his sighting of Kingdom in Lindos five days before Heather 's disappearance did he withhold : he did not yet want to test Zohra 's loyalty too severely . |
| 30 | The details of it all were a little mundane to him and he did not necessarily want to be implicated in them . |