Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] not want " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had already run three miles , and my boots were too heavy for sprinting — besides I did not want to catch the gang in front . |
| 2 | I could , to be sure , scribble off things the whole day long , but a composition of this kind goes out into the world , and naturally I do not want to have cause to be ashamed of my name on the title-page . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I do not want to know you either , mademoiselle , ’ he rasped . |
| 4 | Perhaps you do not want to hear too much about people anyway . |
| 5 | Perhaps you do not want to pass on ; in which case I shall answer your unspoken question . |
| 6 | Obviously we do not want to be in two minds up to the last day and he would n't do that but there is quite a a period of discretion where the time gets shorter and er he would have to make a judgement . |
| 7 | Perhaps they did not want to confuse birds with animals , leaving the term whitearse exclusively avian . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's very pleasant , ’ she said , but somehow she did not want to talk about John . |
| 9 | Until I find out more I do not want to come down on either side . ’ |
| 10 | Until I find out more I do not want to come down on either side . ’ |
| 11 | In fact , the deeper you go into the struggle , the more you are liberated mentally , the more you do not want to have somebody cleaning your shoes , washing your clothes and so on . |
| 12 | SOUTH African President F W de Klerk said yesterday he did not want his children to marry blacks . |
| 13 | And I suspect also she did not want to be reminded of my father . |
| 14 | though he did not want Lindy to know that they listened until they heard a noise again Then Bill laughed . |
| 15 | Let me make it plain I do not want you or need you here . |
| 16 | Surely she does not want to deprive them of these amenities ? |
| 17 | The Prior , ever curious , also tried to intervene but Corbett , taciturn and withdrawn , made it plain he did not want to answer questions . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe she does not want him to think that she is surrendering herself too easily , ’ he suggested . |
| 19 | Maybe he did not want a second game on their pitch . ’ |
| 20 | Yet I did not want to leave things alone entirely , without making an effort , but it is restricted to the expression of two things — the cypresses — the olive trees — let others who are better and more powerful than I reveal their symbolic language … |
| 21 | ‘ Yet you did not want a child in this marriage ? ’ |
| 22 | Either they do not want to run the risk of miscarriage ( about one in 100-200 ) which the procedure entails ; or they would not want a termination even if the baby was found to be disabled . |
| 23 | Some of the things we have listed ( such as Weetabix or baked beans ) have sugar in them anyway so ideally you do not want to be adding even more sugar to breakfast meals . |