Example sentences of "[pron] did not want [verb] and " in BNC.

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1 Between those who did not want to hear and those who did not want to know , North was left , as George understood , alone .
2 Julia closed her eyes , partly because that was a question she did not want to answer and partly because she thought it might help to stop her flinging her arms around his neck and saying , kiss me , oh please kiss me .
3 Then came a day of snow showers , and she did not want to drive and waited until the late afternoon while Magnus sat and whined by the door .
4 He did not want to die and yet his increasing depression was making existence intolerable .
5 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 .
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