Example sentences of "did not [verb] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were predictable objections from departments which did not want to have their own policy advice scrutinized by outside experts . |
| 2 | At the same time she was certain that Maggie did not want to have to cope with that . |
| 3 | She did not want to have the news broken to her carefully . |
| 4 | He did not want to have to speak for he did not want to hear the sound of his own voice . |
| 5 | Yet this was not the only source of Home Office power to supply the hardware which the local police authority did not want to have . |
| 6 | Bismarck was alarmed ; he did not want to have to choose between his allies in a Balkan quarrel . |
| 7 | Tom Murray did not want to have a lot of girlfriends , but just one for good , one he could be deeply serious about . |
| 8 | Equally , they wanted to be able to reduce their manpower as orders were completed and did not want to have to carry excess staff during slack periods . |
| 9 | She did not want to have to think about problems , whatever they might be . |
| 10 | More than one bride 's father has been heard to say that he did not want to have a large engagement party if the wedding was to follow within a year because that would involve him in the organization and expense of ‘ two weddings ’ . |
| 11 | She decided that she did not want to have either an abortion , or to have the baby adopted . |
| 12 | But she did not want to have to confront him right now , she thought frantically . |
| 13 | ‘ We did not want to have poorer people paying slightly extra to subsidise those wealthier individuals who can afford to pay up on time , ’ said council leader Michael Carr . |
| 14 | I have always known that she did not care to have me as a friend . ’ |
| 15 | He said there did not appear to have been a break-in . |
| 16 | Hearns had looked over-the-hill in his previous fight and the pair at times did not appear to have the earnestness which fighters normally show . |
| 17 | He gave me a few quick , curious glances from time to time as I slowly sipped my coffee , but he did not appear to have heard any of the rumours . |
| 18 | He did not appear to have any financial or marital problems . ’ |
| 19 | He did not appear to have noticed any extraordinary knowledge of Ash 's poetry in either Miss LaMotte or Miss Glover . |
| 20 | The overdose did not appear to have involved serious suicidal intent . |
| 21 | It rarely featured in the financial press , and did not appear to have much of a voice on driving matters — unusual for a company in its position . |
| 22 | The Tribunal stated first that the standard of work did not appear to have suffered because of the practice to which the employer objected . |
| 23 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 24 | On a purely practical note , all this added up to quite a bit in value and Ivy Cottage did not appear to have any extra locks or catches at the windows . |
| 25 | Stotland and associates analysed the effects of subsequent increases in prosecution and enforcement and concluded that ‘ a tendency toward an upward rise of home repair fraud was reduced by convictions … however , the increased sanctions did not appear to have completely reversed the upward movement of home repair fraud ’ ( 1980 : 262 ) . |
| 26 | Until recently very few Europeans and hardly anyone from England had visited this area and they did not appear to have had any previous requests from foreign visitors for information , visits to courts or access to their prisons . |
| 27 | In front of the all-seeing eye of the TV camera , he did not appear to have a firm grasp of America 's problems or a clear understanding of where he wanted to go . |
| 28 | Even his father did not appear to have aged greatly , although he was sixty or more years old . |
| 29 | Ironically , a number of LEAs had advisory staff with managerial expertise , yet arts staff did not appear to have sought it . |
| 30 | He regretted the abruptness of the question , but Surere did not appear to have noticed . |