Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] n't [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me to join them , but I did n't want to … |
| 2 | I did n't want to behave like some foul-mouthed old broad , but I did n't want to be a pushover either . |
| 3 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 4 | But I did n't want to be seen talking to her in the office , so I should have to wait until she got home . |
| 5 | ‘ Now it seems an odd decision because the film was such a big success , but I did n't want to be under contract to anyone for any length of time with whom I did n't feel much in common . |
| 6 | But I did n't want to be in the office making phone calls to people who 're rude and saying go away . |
| 7 | I went upstairs , but I did n't go to my room . |
| 8 | But I did n't go to the altar ; to be honest it was n't for lack of offers , but because they always seemed to come from people I would n't have been caught dead at an altar with . |
| 9 | But I did n't go to town till half past ten I was going to me mother 's at half past eleven , so there was n't a lot of time . |
| 10 | ‘ Peaceful as a churchyard , but I did n't think to be making my grave in it ! ’ |
| 11 | I could n't hear what he was saying , but I did n't need to . |
| 12 | My parents explained to me , Pakistan is too far from this country ( Uganda ) , you are not used to their ways , but I did n't listen to them . |
| 13 | But I did n't listen to her , she thought . |
| 14 | But I did n't get to the point of giving them names , which was just as well , because in the end they both had to go to market . |
| 15 | I was only down there at the Spinners ’ , but I did n't get to her in time . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I may have agreed to keep quiet about how we know each other , but I did n't agree to our relationship being viewed as an affair ! ’ she protested . |
| 17 | This was the proper enterprise of the loving wife , to defend her man ; the men performed their acts of authority and occupied the seats of visible influence , but you did n't have to be especially keen-eyed to see that behind the card-players and the drinkers , the officials in their pompous uniforms , the clerks with their mounds of bureaucratic forms , the farmers and the peasants , women were standing . |
| 18 | She could n't see much of it because the thrust stage ran onward out of sight … but you did n't have to down the entire egg to know that it was rotten . |
| 19 | Her husband had asked her to keep them for me — keep them in the family , that is , but she did n't want to be troubled with all the precautions and inspections since the Firearms Acts . |
| 20 | But she did n't want to be the first to speak to him , and he never looked at her . |
| 21 | ‘ But she did n't want to . ’ |
| 22 | She said , by the shape of me she wanted to ask me , but she did n't want to in case she offended me . |
| 23 | There was no denying his words had a soothing effect , but she did n't want to be soothed , she wanted him to accept her version of events . |
| 24 | He was so happy that Carrie was afraid Auntie Lou might be hurt but she did n't appear to be . |
| 25 | I even got a job for one of my half-sisters at a place in Lunedale , but she did n't settle to the job like me and wanted to go home after a short while . |
| 26 | There was a school in the village but she did n't go to it because when she was eight her mother said she had to start earning her keep like everyone else . |
| 27 | But she did n't have to , she reminded herself grimly . |
| 28 | She had made some preparations for their dinner but she did n't object to going out . |
| 29 | She went out of the room longing to slam the door as she often did at home , but she did n't dare to here . |
| 30 | But she did n't need to . |