Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] not want " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , it is cold and I do not want it . |
| 2 | It is my home and I do not want to leave it . ’ |
| 3 | Very well , I will tell you what you ask me , and I do not want to know why you ask it . ’ |
| 4 | And I replied , ‘ Anastasiya Pavlovna , you have valued these things wrongly , and I do not want to nor can I take advantage of your ignorance ’ . |
| 5 | Whether that man is the prime minister , modifying his opinions to catch votes , or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention , that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him , any more than I want to eat canned salmon . |
| 6 | Death would be too kind an end for a man who has done what he has , and I do not want him to escape into it . ’ |
| 7 | This is a very serious matter the election to Labour 's shadow cabinet and I do not want to believe that men would deliberately spoil their vote . |
| 8 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) went through the various clauses in detail and I do not want to add to anything that he has said . |
| 9 | I made the matter clear and I do not want anyone to misunderstand . |
| 10 | There are other personalities involved and I do not want to hurt anybody . |
| 11 | ‘ There is no fight , no feud and I do not want one , either , ’ he remarked . |
| 12 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 13 | Still — ‘ I did not see him again and I did not want to ’ . |
| 14 | For native English speakers I would give a quite different kind of lecture , and I did not want to be judged by the standards of my lectures to the Japanese , which were nearly always basic and very simple in expression . |
| 15 | And I did not want to rush this hour , not with Machu Picchu behind me ; the rainforest ahead : two great wings that would beat in my memory . |
| 16 | I had a deep-seated feeling that the whole business of seances , trying to get in touch with spirits and souls who had ‘ passed on ’ was wrong and dangerous for me , and I did not want to get involved . |
| 17 | I could see that if the others achieved their work ambitions they would not be in the house all day , and I did not want to be at home on my own . |
| 18 | But I remembered how cruel children can be to small animals , and I did not want the boy to take his revenge on me . |
| 19 | The boat was too small for a long journey , and I did not want to die at sea . |
| 20 | I was now in my twenty-seventh year on the island , and I did not want to be there for another year . |
| 21 | As usual , I felt that , on taking leave , I ought to proceed in a direction opposite to that which he was taking , because there was a mystery as to where Eliot lived , and I did not want to appear inquisitive . |
| 22 | He says ; After the farewell tour I concentrated on acting and my future and I did not want to sing Dr Hook 's songs but I now understand people will want me too . |
| 23 | And I did not want a reply anyway , ’ he laughed . |
| 24 | The real interview may run a very different course from the one you anticipated , and you do not want to develop the subconscious belief that it can only go one way . |
| 25 | You start to see a pattern developing in your study and you do not want to let yourself down by not studying today . |
| 26 | It is always almost impossible for a single practitioner to obtain more than the other firms in the area are obtaining and you do not want to be in a position of being undersold because your colleagues in other firms have an unrealistic view about what should be charged . |
| 27 | And I understood from the hospital where Mrs Ross has been a patient that before she was admitted enquiries were made and you wrote back — supposedly in your wife 's absence — saying you had no idea where your wife was and you did not want to hear about her mother or to see her . ’ |
| 28 | She did not want Lisa to have any part of Rachel , and she did not want Rachel to have any part of Phoebe . |
| 29 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
| 30 | And she did not want to talk to anyone . |