Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [verb] not want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor says he does not want to get involved in emotional situations — but football is about emotion , and it disappoints me that Taylor does not want to show his . |
| 2 | However , the diary makes it quite clear that Beatrice did not want to be associated with what she viewed as primarily a celibate woman 's cause . |
| 3 | After all those months of fighting the knowledge that Anthony did not want her much , it was a heavenly feeling . |
| 4 | Fru Gertlinger knew that Elisabeth did not want to unpick the past with her and she never made mention of it . |
| 5 | At the same time she was certain that Maggie did not want to have to cope with that . |
| 6 | A spokesperson at the Brazilian embassy in London said that Brazil did not want to become a regular base of support for the British presence in the Falkland Islands [ see also p. 37001 ] . |
| 7 | The intimation that Venables did not want Hughes at Tottenham was that it was a misjudgment by him . |
| 8 | It was fairly obvious that Jo did not want to be recognized , but then who would with Nevil in tow ? ’ |
| 9 | The point was hammered home by the arrest of Hedilla , when he refused to accept a position on the Party Political Committee ( appointed on 22 April ) ; by the conditions for negotiation communicated by the Nationalists to the Basque government via Cavaletti , which made it abundantly clear that Franco did not want a " separate peace " but total surrender ; and , finally , by the blitzkrieg bombardment of the Basque market town of Guernica , historic cradle of Basque nationalism , on 26 April 1937 . |
| 10 | It is striking that Lewis did not want it known in College that he wrote ‘ pomes ’ , but only natural that he should have looked outside Magdalen for soulmates within his own Faculty . |
| 11 | And then there were other things , that Anne did not want to speak about . |
| 12 | ‘ That must have been interesting , ’ said Julia and then , because it was obvious that Felicity did not want to talk about her war experiences , began to swap anodyne reminiscences with her . |
| 13 | Lord John Russell , who at that time was not a member of Palmerston 's Government , said that he had heard that Panmure did not want a new building for the War Department , and he hoped that : |
| 14 | Ivan Cooper asked the crowd to behave responsibly and stressed that NICRA did not want any violence or bloodshed . |
| 15 | This announced , quietly but determinedly , that Balfour did not want Asquith 's backing for the Admiralty : |
| 16 | What Franco failed to take into account , however , was , first , that Germany had its own designs on French Morocco ; second , that Hitler did not want to provoke Free French/Allied resistance in North Africa which would oblige him to open a new military front far away from what was then his principal concern , namely the invasion of the British Isles ; and , third , that Hitler was not convinced of the need or utility of Spanish military help . |