Example sentences of "do not want i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise . |
| 2 | When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work . |
| 3 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 4 | My father and Elizabeth did not want me to go to England alone , because I had been so ill . |
| 5 | Felipe did not want me to go but my father listened to no one . |
| 6 | Later I found that Mains did not want me watching his team train ‘ because I knew too much about rugby ’ and would tell the opposition of his plans . |
| 7 | They did not want me to stop work to write or to see them . |
| 8 | The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me . |
| 9 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 10 | No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But you do not want me to do an article for the City Press ? ’ |
| 12 | Manchester-based Mark , at No. 19 with I Found Heaven , reveals : ‘ My mum did n't want me wasting my time trying to be a pop star and I came very close to quitting the group . |
| 13 | You said Farrell did n't want me harmed . |
| 14 | Perhaps you did n't want me to talk to you . |
| 15 | ‘ I asked her why he was n't married , and she did n't want me thinking there was anything wrong with him , so she told me . |
| 16 | ‘ Me daughters did n't want me to do it . |
| 17 | Yeah , and you did n't want me to do it . |
| 18 | Yeah and you said no you just wanted , did n't want me to do it or something . |
| 19 | ‘ If you did n't want me to hit you , you should have kept your mouth shut . ’ |
| 20 | Or whether for some unknown reason she just did n't want me to go . |
| 21 | they did n't want me to go naturally . |
| 22 | But I got a distinct impression he did n't want me to see what he was writing . |
| 23 | so she did n't want me to put sixty four down , but that 's cheating |
| 24 | They did n't want me to wear saris . |
| 25 | ‘ He did n't want me to die , ’ he said quietly . |
| 26 | someone I was talking to er did n't want me to record them . |
| 27 | She did n't want me to get work at the colliery , and she had cousins in Limehouse — the Williamses , in Three Colt Street . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I know you did n't want me to come here tonight , but there is an enchanted magician in that box and I promised him that I would get him to you so that you could change him back . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought she did n't want me to come . ’ |
| 30 | One day my mum rang up and said she did n't want me to come home again and that I should go to Social Services because she was sick and tired of all the bother and everything . |