Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [verb] not want " in BNC.

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1 I shall certainly look at that , but this is exactly the sort of issue in which I do not want us to get involved .
2 His mother kept poking toys which she did not want at her .
3 Hilda , for her , simply represented another point of view , which she did not want to get a hearing .
4 Details of yesterday 's court order were not made public , but it has been reported that Miss Bonham-Carter has provided the court with a map with a red line marking an area of several hundred yards around her house which she did not want Mr Farquharson to enter .
5 It is because of the universality of the threat to freedom contained in homophobia that it becomes highly important that we try to avoid both the language which dissociates us from sexual acts by others in which we do not want to participate , and the attitudes which that language represents .
6 New fairs have crowded the calendar at a time in the market cycle when there has been a sharp decline in the volume of business and in the enthusiasm of American collectors , in particular , to travel long distances to look at art which they do not want to buy .
7 It offered local people services , landscape , and ‘ village life ’ , things which they did not want .
8 In working clothes and boots they would have walked through , but they were wearing Sunday white stockings and thin shoes which they did not want to ruin .
9 The hon. Gentleman supports high spending and progressive teaching methods but seems indifferent to the results , which he does not want to give the public in any comprehensible form .
10 The run-on line also conveys the immortal life of Tithonus which he does not want any more .
11 Perhaps — no , not perhaps , but because McAllister , with all her youthful ebullience and charm , was in his house , she had revived something in him which he did not want to feel and he had called up the demon to assuage it — no , to kill it .
12 Which he did not want to hear , she realised ; which meant nothing to him .
13 The TUC 's plans for the part of the economy which it did not want to nationalise were far removed from the anti-trust policy which the coalition was considering .
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