Example sentences of "[not/n't] want i " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work . |
| 2 | I 'm going to die , but they do not want me to , and so I try to stay cheerful for them . ’ |
| 3 | No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’ |
| 4 | Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise . |
| 5 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 6 | ‘ But you do not want me to do an article for the City Press ? ’ |
| 7 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 8 | ‘ I want only you , ’ he replied , rubbing his eyes with the back of his hand , ‘ but you do not want me . |
| 9 | Later I found that Mains did not want me watching his team train ‘ because I knew too much about rugby ’ and would tell the opposition of his plans . |
| 10 | I told myself that I had to face up to things ; John might have forgotten me , he might have been changed beyond recognition by his experiences ; he would not want me to mope . |
| 11 | The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me . |
| 12 | ‘ Because you do not want me to . |
| 13 | They did not want me to stop work to write or to see them . |
| 14 | My father and Elizabeth did not want me to go to England alone , because I had been so ill . |
| 15 | Felipe did not want me to go but my father listened to no one . |
| 16 | Silas would not want me to be in a room where somebody such as yourself could have an ear pressed to the wall . |
| 17 | If you do not want me to cons y'know if you put , this is a load of effing sh or whatever and then suddenly you suddenly realise that you might actually pass so you then I mean cross it out , I 'll pretend it 's not there , ok ? |
| 18 | do you not want me in the house . |
| 19 | I do n't know how that all worked with work , because erm , they may not want me too . |
| 20 | They did n't want me at this party , but because I AM , fang and claw I have grapple-hooked their smooth cliffs , and have the right to stalk these wooded cliffs , lap at their abundant streams . |
| 21 | ‘ You mean you do n't want me to stay ? |
| 22 | You do n't want me to sleep here ? ’ |
| 23 | I am a British citizen but the Home Office do n't want me to stay on here in spite of that . |
| 24 | They did n't want me to wear saris . |
| 25 | ‘ They obviously did n't want me , so I wo n't apply , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ I do feel she does n't want me there , though . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And anyway Gloria do n't want me neither . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And nobody do n't want me there anyhow , ’ Dot finished out loud . |
| 29 | He did n't want me to worry about my health . |
| 30 | I had beaten some of the sprinters selected for the invitation 60 metres and yet Frank Dick did n't want me to run . |