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Example sentences of "we [verb] n't want [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Besides , in those days , the girls would have been on to it quick as a flash and we did n't want that .
2	In actual fact the er farmer put the planning application in to hold this market every week really refused it outright saying it 's a very sensitive area of Green belt and we did n't want two hundred er stalls there every Sunday on the car park coming out of the road and everything else .
3	That 's because we did n't want half an hour and he wanted half an a hour .
4	Patiently , I went through the same arguments that I 'd used with Mazzin himself , emphasizing that we did n't want any trouble but would n't tolerate abuse , and that we felt Islamic Jihad did n't want to cause us unnecessary distress .
5	Said one insider : " We did n't want any International incidents with players who might say something indiscreet to the tabloid press . "
6	My own mob was right at the front of the fuss : we did n't want any more secret organisations on our patch . ’
7	‘ We do n't want that kind of custom . ‘
8	‘ We do n't want that , now , dae we ? ’
9	We do n't want that all over the floor . ’
10	By this time Harry was there too , saying : " Look here , we do n't want that McNab fellow putting his oar in .
11	Right , so we do n't want that one , we want this one ?
12	And we do n't want that to happen , and we have different kinds of bullets that hit her and stay there .
13	Just routine , Peter , but we do n't want that drunken fool getting into mischief .
14	We do n't want that .
15	Erm no we do n't want that so just keep saying no .
16	I do n't know if he 's looking for trouble and of course that er would undermine er what public er relations and everything and we do n't want that .
17	‘ We do n't want that . ’
18	We do n't want that and I 'm sure you do n't want it either .
19	As regards the salaries of the U S A we 've read and seen about so many companies that pay sky-high for v various salaries and other schemes , we do n't want that in this country but we do want a degree of evenness and I would repeat as somebody has already said , that your salary has gone up fifty six percent which is very , very high .
20	Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference .
21	Obviously we do n't want that to happen .
22	Tomatoes need to go in a bag or else they 'll roll about all the over the place see if you can spot , the small-ish ones , but not like that , see cos that 's got a mark on it , we do n't want that one .
23	Oh we do n't want that .
24	no we do n't want that rubbish
25	We do n't want that on !
26	We do n't want one of them slamming up our rear . ’
27	Well , provided someone does , we do n't want two , but we do want one to bring it .
28	We do n't want two dancers , but one one set of dancers .
29	If someone said oh we do n't want two pipes it 's a bit messy , take them out and replace them by one that had the same resistance , that lets the same amount of water through , what would you replace those by ?
30	Erm but , but they 're an easy target to go for as opposed to , I mean Mao could e perhaps as easily as argued , saying you know commercialization is not the way forward , erm and we do n't want greater interaction with the world economy erm as opposed to saying , you know , overthrow the local landlords .