Example sentences of "not want [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |
| 2 | ‘ I would not want to slave-drive you as early as this actual moment . ’ |
| 3 | The industrialists of the water-power age , out in the open country , had put up houses for their workpeople — as at Cromford , Mellor and Styal , where many of them may still be seen — which were , in Professor Ashton 's words , ‘ not wanting in amenity and comfort ’ and even possessed a certain quality of design and proportion . |
| 4 | Because there was a shortage of pasture in many districts , cattle were allowed to wander freely to search for food , especially during the seasons when they were not wanted for agriculture . |
| 5 | The bed was covered in odd stockings , T-shirts and stuff not wanted on voyage , so to speak . |
| 6 | oh no that 's what , I 've got cross country tomorrow , first lesson I do n't want cross country |
| 7 | She wo n't want for money — her wealthy brother will see to that . |
| 8 | Gulf war or not , the world does n't want for oil — yet . |
| 9 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 10 | But I just did n't want to go , it was to my grandmother and old John they used to say , Oh no , you do n't want to school , you 're supposed to stay here at home . |
| 11 | I mean you do n't want to kind of put them off too much erm |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't want to press-gang you into doing something you 're not happy with , so if you have any reservations just say so . |
| 13 | And we do n't want to fork , I mean , |
| 14 | They 're mostly Northerners , and they do n't want to muck about . |
| 15 | I do n't want to sort of wade in in response to that , I want other people to er |
| 16 | Right I mean I do n't want to sort of pry into how you do your business that the in the the getting of that information that 's that is relatively straightforward , is it ? |
| 17 | er because er her children but erm say that we we did n't want to sort of upset her by erm you know |
| 18 | I do n't want to f— up my music by being too political . |
| 19 | They do n't want to louse it up any more . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't want to rock-climb . |
| 21 | We do n't want tae fight now , dae we ? ’ |
| 22 | The French city people may have gone but the farmers are still there — they were n't wanted in space . |