Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] not want " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him . |
| 2 | I do not want to die , James my son , but I do not want to live all my life in an English prison . |
| 3 | But I do not want you to marry me just because your parents wanted it . |
| 4 | For myself I do not care , but I do not want armed retainers terrifying my household by arresting me in the dead of night . ’ |
| 5 | I start to speak , but I do not want to lose the smoke . |
| 6 | Perry 's fags lay half out of their packet on the table , but I do not want to smoke . |
| 7 | It would be unfair to pretend that , but I do not want my hon. Friend to be carried away by the importance of it . |
| 8 | I shall say something this morning about the negotiation on political union , in which I am most closely involved , but I do not want to concentrate on those themes today , because the world has not obligingly stood still as we prepare the approach to Maastricht . |
| 9 | That may be the competitive advantage that the hon. Gentleman wants for his constituents , but I do not want it for mine . |
| 10 | ‘ We do hope Mr De Klerk gets his mandate but I do not want to say there will be a review of policy in our dealings with his administration . |
| 11 | I want to help those in adverse circumstances , but I do not want to give it all back . ’ |
| 12 | I had to tell the story in a manner that the children would understand , but I did not want to risk ruining their sleep by a description of details . |
| 13 | Why do n't you ever mention where your change of clothes come from when you go on those long journeys , I was dying to ask , but I did not want to stop the flow of his fatal attraction and eccentric erudition . |
| 14 | He wanted it to be an apple charlotte , but I did not want another in fiction after that in Howards End . |
| 15 | Realism was not a primary concern , but I did not want the painting to look too flat . |
| 16 | I knew as we all knew that conscription was inevitable , but I did not want to fight . |
| 17 | He put his arm round me but I did not want to be caressed . |
| 18 | She asked me straight out once what it was , but I did not want to tell her yet . |
| 19 | But I did not want them to stay out in the cold all night , so I kept my window open to look out for them . |
| 20 | We were not going fast , but I did not want to . |
| 21 | It would have been better than staying at home but I did not want to wear a school uniform . |
| 22 | ‘ But you do not want me to do an article for the City Press ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I want only you , ’ he replied , rubbing his eyes with the back of his hand , ‘ but you do not want me . |
| 24 | ‘ I think you do remember , ’ said Mahmoud , ‘ but you do not want to tell me . |
| 25 | You are not bothered whether the house is detached or semi-detached , but you do not want to live on an estate . |
| 26 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
| 27 | Liz was prepared to allow the therapist to talk to her parents , but she did not want her to tell them about her problems concerning the shop , preferring to discuss these with them herself . |
| 28 | But she did not want to become a doctor . |
| 29 | The biographies were terse and restrained , as far as his private life was concerned , and effusive only about the names and quality of his publications She thought that she might ring Peter de Salis , and ask him about Mrs Denham , but she did not want to do this , in case Mrs Denham was a lady of such fame that ignorance of her would prove to be positively compromising . |
| 30 | The safe in her father 's office upstairs had cheques in it , but she did not want cheques . |