Example sentences of "did [adv] [adv] want [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only his sighting of Kingdom in Lindos five days before Heather 's disappearance did he withhold : he did not yet want to test Zohra 's loyalty too severely . |
| 2 | Richard did not even want to preside . |
| 3 | And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother . |
| 4 | He provided a better place , which the uneasy partner did not even want to look at , but admits could not be better . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd better try to find the prisoners , ’ said Fenella at last , although she did not really want to leave the comparative safety of the wood-store . |
| 6 | ‘ She said she did not really want to go back to university and my husband told her she did not have to if she did not want to . |
| 7 | The queen dowager would probably have been considerably more of an embarrassment at large , and the Crowland chronicler implies that Gloucester did not really want to resolve the question . |
| 8 | The queen dowager would probably have been considerably more of an embarrassment at large , and the Crowland chronicler implies that Gloucester did not really want to resolve the question . |
| 9 | Poindexter , weary , did not really want to know and had no memory of the memo at all ; he told him he would see him at the office in the morning . |
| 10 | They did not therefore want to suggest of Christ that he was another God , which would create a polytheistic situation . |
| 11 | And whichever way it went , in any event , the public did not greatly want to know . |
| 12 | Sources say Unix System Labs did n't exactly want to sue the university , but basically has no choice and regards this as a test case . |
| 13 | It was my dream , and I did n't just want to bash out songs and see how it went . |
| 14 | Lorne , three years my junior , did n't even want to arrive . |
| 15 | The teachers naturally thought , because you 're black , you must have some sort of athletic ability in you ; but I did n't even want to do athletics , at all . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't even want to ask anything . |
| 17 | I did n't even want to listen when you tried to explain … |
| 18 | He did n't even want to consult with one of his colleagues . |
| 19 | I became so quiet and lonely and sometimes I did n't even want to see my husband ( after my daughter was born and when she was a baby ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've thought so much more about you since I imagined you did n't even want to see me again . |
| 21 | She did n't even want to see Julius again . |
| 22 | I did n't even want to see it . |
| 23 | I did n't even want to go ! ? |
| 24 | Jessamy gave a small shiver and decided she did n't even want to consider that possibility . |
| 25 | If she rang Tony to warn him , Damian would guess that she had done so , and she did n't even want to consider his rage if he did . |
| 26 | You 'd say , rubbish I did n't even want to know whether it was say two thousand two hundred and twenty six . |
| 27 | When I first got it in the I was a bit , well it do n't sound too hard , bit down hard , but then again they were in a rush , I said there 's your present and I gave it to them , and they unwrapped it and me mum says oh come on we 'll be late for the club , cos they were getting free drinks at the pub , oh she , she did n't even want to look at it , I said oh , and she looked at it |
| 28 | Somewhere where strange people would charge you extortionate sums of money for things you did n't even want to have done to you . |
| 29 | Oh , God , he did n't even want to think about it . |
| 30 | Jessamy did n't even want to think about that , mainly because she had no idea what she would do then . |