Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] want [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband and I had always lamented not learning to ski as young children so we did n't want Jessica , our two-year-old , to miss out too . |
| 2 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 3 | And who of us has never made a phone call we did n't want others to overhear ? |
| 4 | We did n't want money . |
| 5 | ‘ We did n't want Tim to die without Dominic and Abby seeing him and touching him . |
| 6 | It 's just that we have a little surprise for you and we did n't want Mr Woodentop spoiling it . ’ |
| 7 | Oh nineteen sixties we , we introduced that with the blessing of the ambulance people as well , it was n't done without careful consideration , because erm we did n't want people to , to just erm introduce it without knowing what we were doing and ever since we used it it 's been a great blessing . |
| 8 | We did n't want people to think it was only for production and engineering . |
| 9 | I mean , of course there were things that were missed out I suppose , but also , I suppose , we were quite young , so it may have quite embarrassing and we did n't want talk about certain things . |
| 10 | We did so not because we did not want money spent on community care , but because we did not necessarily believe that a one-track policy was the best way to ensure the ideal form of care . |
| 11 | We did not want cameras . ’ |