Example sentences of "do [adv] want thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did not want things that Picasso gave Douglas and me coming on the market , and Billy very decently gave me the drawing ’ . |
| 2 | He did not want things to go wrong at this stage . |
| 3 | Senior managers do not want things to go wrong , and will not take what they consider to be unnecessary risks in recommending one supplier as opposed to another . |
| 4 | He did n't want things bungled now . |
| 5 | And in a way one did n't want things to be over , for the uncertain future was more unsettling than the unexplained past . |
| 6 | That 's not to say they do n't want things they 're not currently getting . |
| 7 | You do n't want things assuming any shape on you . |
| 8 | Oh , I said , I do n't want things like that , I said , take them away . |
| 9 | You know like I say there is quite a lot of trust and erm I think Yona and me are sort of aware er we 're very much united in the feeling that we do n't we do n't want things to erm you know we want everybody to be involved and obviously different people have different things to offer . |
| 10 | I do n't want things stuffing down that hole . |
| 11 | No do n't be silly they just want vocabulary , they do n't want things like that , they want to know a person 's vocabulary a to cer you know , at a certain age . |