Example sentences of "do not want a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 2 | Back at his hotel , packing for his return to London , John wondered how to fit this large acquisition into his luggage , could not think of a way , decided that he did not want a souvenir of the trip anyway because of his gloom about the impending ballet , so tore it up and threw it in the wastepaper basket . |
| 3 | Baldwin turned the question by saying that ‘ several of them were , perhaps , too Conservative and did not want a change . ’ |
| 4 | Having established that his visitors did not want a drink , the businessman poured himself a tall glass of gin and tonic . |
| 5 | And in particular , the last governments of the Fourth Republic did not want a repetition of the EDC episode . |
| 6 | With regard to blackmail the Criminal Law Revision Committee did not want a test that the accused 's belief had to be reasonable because such could be out of line with the rest of the 1968 Act , yet Feely and Ghosh do just that in relation to dishonesty falling outside of s.2(1) . |
| 7 | I did not want a verdict that he was killed in action because he did not go out there to fight . |
| 8 | His mother , Barbara Edwards , of Cae Gwilym Lane , Cefn Mawr , said : ‘ I did not want a verdict that he was killed in action because he did not go out there to fight , he went out to keep the peace . ’ |
| 9 | Mrs Edwards , of Cefn Mawr , said : ‘ I did not want a verdict he was killed in action because he did not go out to fight ; he went out to keep the peace . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Yet you did not want a child in this marriage ? ’ |
| 11 | She did not want a child to walk through life beside her . |
| 12 | The party did not want a repeat of the disastrous ‘ Who Governs ? ’ election of 1974 . |
| 13 | If Elliott did not want a partner , he would have a rival . |
| 14 | Whitelaw , concerned as ever to be the mediator , strove to find a middle way between Heseltine and those who did not want a penny extra for the cities for fear of being seen to reward rioters . |
| 15 | She still did not want a baby , but she knew how much she did want and need her husband . |
| 16 | She did not want a baby . |
| 17 | He had said that he did not want a solicitor when he first arrived at the police station , at 2 p.m . |
| 18 | He was informed of his rights after arrest and said that he did not want a solicitor . |
| 19 | During the third interview , he was asked to confirm that he did not want a solicitor , and he replied ‘ I have n't got a solicitor . ’ |
| 20 | Upon contacting the police station , that solicitor was told that C did not want a solicitor . |
| 21 | in which C had affirmatively said that he did not want a solicitor . |
| 22 | President Bush said yesterday that he did not want a trade war with European countries . |
| 23 | She did not want a family . |
| 24 | BSP Prime Minister-designate Andrei Lukanov told the Assembly that his party did not want a monopoly of power , and would support and co-operate with Zhelev in the interests of national consent . |
| 25 | Israel did not want the refugees back under any conditions and Jordan did not want a refugee body acting independently . |
| 26 | Seb did not want a light to show Carrie how he got down the stairs . |
| 27 | At the press conference at the end of his visit , Mikoian made it quite clear that the Soviet Union did not want a show-down with the United States over Cuba ( Dinerstein : 1962 , p. 69 ) . |
| 28 | And I did not want a reply anyway , ’ he laughed . |
| 29 | In the afternoon , when only her mother was with her , she stated spontaneously to a nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she had been a Jehovah 's Witness and retained some beliefs . |
| 30 | At 5 p.m. a staff nurse joined Miss T. and her mother and Miss T. told the staff nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she used to be a Jehovah 's Witness and that she still maintained some beliefs . |