Example sentences of "did [not/n't] want the " in BNC.

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1 The client did not want the teddy to have glass eyes .
2 The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further .
3 ‘ We did not want the war , he continued , his voice getting weaker .
4 He did not want the job at all .
5 They had enjoyed his single status and the attention he devoted to them , and frankly did not want the intrusion of a newcomer .
6 If the farmers did not want the foxes , they would plough up those areas , and some of those other species might entirely disappear .
7 Miss Norma Scott , aged 23 , failed to report her mother 's death because she did not want the council to discover the squalid conditions at her home in Bilsmoor Avenue , Newcastle upon Tyne .
8 James Baker , the secretary of state , told Congress recently that his review of Middle East policy convinced him long before the invasion of Kuwait that the ‘ old view that we somehow did not want the Soviets involved is a mistake ’ .
9 When George Bush called for Saddam to be deposed , it was clear that : he did not want the Kurds to do it ( that would displease Turkey , Syria , Iran and Russia , and therefore , everybody else ) ; he did not want the Shiites to do it ( that would please Iran and so displease everybody else ) ; and he was not sure if he wanted the Sunnis to do it ( because that might make the Kurds and the Shiites do it , too ) .
10 When George Bush called for Saddam to be deposed , it was clear that : he did not want the Kurds to do it ( that would displease Turkey , Syria , Iran and Russia , and therefore , everybody else ) ; he did not want the Shiites to do it ( that would please Iran and so displease everybody else ) ; and he was not sure if he wanted the Sunnis to do it ( because that might make the Kurds and the Shiites do it , too ) .
11 What it did not want the public to know was that Blake had been authorised to do shady deals with Russian intelligence , including the betrayal of MI6 agents in East Germany , and the whole plan had backfired because he was a spy already .
12 Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border .
13 It did not want the political centre of gravity to shift across the river .
14 Israel did not want the refugees to return because it desperately needed their land and villages to absorb Jewish immigrants .
15 Israel did not want the refugees back under any conditions and Jordan did not want a refugee body acting independently .
16 An out of court settlement of $50,000 was paid since Jax did not want the publicity .
17 Relatives had taken on the boys of her family but did not want the responsibility and lower wages of the girls .
18 For thoroughly understandable reasons , however , it was not to these people that Hitler turned for his image of the German : he did not want the average German for the SS , he wanted supermen for the conquest of the east .
19 We did not want the ANL to claim credit for the march by swamping it with its placards ( as it has done in the past ) when it played no part in the march 's organisation .
20 The majority of the Soviet population , particularly in Russia and the Central Asian republics , certainly did not want the Union to be eliminated — they wanted its democratic transformation .
21 After he had rung off Lewis considered informing the police , he thought this might be his duty , but on the other hand he did not want the police actually to be there when Adam arrived .
22 She did not want the relationship to start up again .
23 But he feared a jaunt to Expo 92 in Seville would send the wrong message to the markets — and did not want the humiliation of returning early to deal with a sterling crisis .
24 Ferguson also confirmed he is to report Kettering referee Brian Hill following last weekend 's clash at Bramall Lane after insisting he did not want the official to control United 's games in the future .
25 Now that the old man knew of his weakness , Vashinov did not want the project to fail and thereby have the finger of incompetence pointed at him .
26 Instead , there were various individuals — Ferdinand , Isabella and their councillors — and the fact that they did not want the unification of Spain and the Hapsburg lands is presented as decisive evidence against Braudel 's view .
27 Realism was not a primary concern , but I did not want the painting to look too flat .
28 The latter did not want the prime ministership , calculating that another tough spell of cohabitation could damage his presidential chances in 1995 .
29 Costa Rica did not want the treaty terminated or suspended : it wanted performance of its rights of consultation .
30 He did not want the next one to start soon .
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