Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] not wish " in BNC.

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1 That I do n't wish to be your friend .
2 The other is that I do n't wish any harm to come to Miss Coleman and she may be safer where she is until they say she 's free to go . ’
3 Not that I do n't wish it to carry on .
4 My patience is fast running out , Deveraugh — I 've already told you , several times , that I do not wish to go any further along the river .
5 My hon. Friend will realise that I do not wish to mislead him and that the setting of discounts for single people is a matter of judgment .
6 I also explained to him myself that I had been abused by my father , who was a doctor , and that I did not wish to be examined by a man .
7 And then I agreed to do something for Émile that I did not wish to do , which made me ashamed .
8 This is a procedure like Swift 's , except that Leapor is staking her claim to real dignity ; she asserts that she does not wish to be valued for beauty , but for her wit and , as we glean from other poems , her morals .
9 D proceeded to scratch the police — officer 's arm , having previously made it clear — in colourful language — that she did not wish to talk to the police — officer .
10 Had she merely stated that she did not wish to have a baby , she would have been considered failing in what she saw as her role in life .
11 Ward J. took evidence on the telephone from Dr. F. , who had spoken to Miss T. in the maternity unit after she had stated for the second time that she did not wish to have a blood transfusion and before she had signed the refusal form .
12 It may well have been so intended , as it was in the Canadian case of Malette v. Shulman ( 1990 ) 67 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 321 where the Jehovah 's Witness carried a card stating in unequivocal terms that she did not wish blood to be administered to her in any circumstances .
13 She had so far relented towards Betty that she did not wish to see her disappointed .
14 She scarcely knew these women and told herself that she did n't wish to .
15 Monthly direct debits to cover the amount due will continue automatically unless you inform us that you do not wish to use Esiplan 12 .
16 You will , in fact , be so much in control of the situation that , should you decide at any moment that you do not wish to continue , all you have to do is open your eyes and you will be your present-day self again , exactly as you were when you first entered the consulting room .
17 Then tell your subconscious that you do not wish to create that negative reality .
18 Unless you are snipping soft growth where there is little space between stems you wish to prune and those that you do not wish to harm , always cut with the object wood well back in the blades to reduce stressing the blades and their pivot .
19 Yesterday afternoon we parted in such love and friendship — and now — now — you say that you do not wish to marry me !
20 ‘ I can well imagine that you do not wish to leave here until you have proof .
21 Thank you for informing me that you do not wish to pursue your initial interest in the above Group .
22 We should be talking with them and going out of our way to assure them that we do not wish to engage in a price war .
23 Further sections of this pattern would then go into subsequent stitch pattern areas , but bear in mind that we do not wish to overflow the memory , while the next section of 88 squares will fill the working memory .
24 The problem which was supposed to bring liberal theory crashing to the ground was that we do not wish to justify interfering with adult liberties on these grounds .
25 And how are we to make alliances with those women or are we to say that we do not wish to do so until they 've gone through a greater degree of learning process .
26 In 1989 , Lloyds Bank , the firm 's landlords in Newport , announced that they did not wish to renew the lease on the Newport office .
27 Sh that th the people were willing to make promises that they did not wish to keep that they would not keep and I in all sincerity could not let them do that , and they went away extremely hurt and that particular situation unfortunately became extremely tragic later on .
28 The following intimated that they did not wish to stand for re-election , Dr F. Neave , Mrs S. Peterson , Mrs V. Hawkins , G. Espin , A. Mack .
29 But you see one other person who was there last night was at one time involved with a major , no longer major Scottish company which did all its substantial charitable giving anonymously once a year through its lawyers because they decided that they did not wish to be publicly associated with any particular thing and then the representative from John Lewis said last night
30 They pointed out in their judgment that they did not wish to be taken as approving in any way the retention of corporal punishment .
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