Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] really want " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had a flood of enquiries when Barclaycard introduced its annual charge — mostly from the sort of customers we did n't really want , ’ says Ian Bell , managing director of Town & Country . |
| 2 | It had to be done through the American Consulate at Marseilles , sixty miles there and back , she was away most of the day ; I was glad of that too , we did n't really want to be alone with each other just then . |
| 3 | That 's right , yeah , yeah Yes our first tour was five , it was supposed to be four , but , we erm , er for some reason or other we did n't really want to come home , ha four , so we stretched to three |
| 4 | Mum , there was a rabbit but we did n't really want a rabbit . |
| 5 | He said it would be a mistake , ‘ a mistake in sentiment ; for it could only mean that we were embalming the corpse of something that is n't really dead and need n't die at all — an aesthetic mistake — because we do n't really want to have the taste of our schooldays established as a boundary for our whole lives ’ . |
| 6 | But if it is a hung parliament , this will be because we do n't really want anyone to have any power . |
| 7 | ‘ We do n't really want to see them being killed do we ? ’ |
| 8 | We do n't really want trouble at the school , do we ? ’ |
| 9 | Well , we did n't quite say that , but we do n't really want to . |
| 10 | yeah , that 'll be nice , cos we do n't really want it do we ? |
| 11 | Heidi we do n't really want to know . |
| 12 | We do n't really want to colour in a jigsaw puzzle do you ? |
| 13 | We do n't really want it . |
| 14 | Well we do n't really want a long-haired ! |
| 15 | Now in , in the early stages you certainly want to encourage as many people from this base to join , when the development , the movement gathers pace it 's possible to say right we possibly w there 's some , sort of the wealthy peasants we do n't really want , they 're the ones who prospered under the old scheme of things , they were the ones who had some power and influence and er by even drawing them into the association there is a danger that they may sort of assume the lead or take an active role which would be detrimental , which would negate the movement and try and make it er less revolutionary and more lawful , they would go back to sort of reform of the old system rather than the overthrowal |