Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [not/n't] want " in BNC.
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| 31 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
| 32 | I do not want to play games in colour on my TV , I can do household accounts with a piece of paper and a pencil , I can learn languages easier from a book and a tape recorder , if I want information I can look it up and read it far faster than I can get it from a screen and I can turn back with a nip of the finger and read it again . |
| 33 | I do not want to detract from Lincoln 's performance in any way ; he is a very talented athlete , but somehow that talent seems to have gone to waste . |
| 34 | But no , I do not want to take the chance myself in case it turns out to be a family weakness . |
| 35 | However , I do not want to offend my local church organist by asking her to step down . |
| 36 | I do not want to get rid of him , so I was considering buying a 24″ × 24″ × 24″ tank for him alone . |
| 37 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 38 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 39 | Because I do not want to influence the mind of the patient in any way , the phrase I usually employ is : ‘ Go to wherever your subconscious mind feels comfortable . ’ |
| 40 | I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him . |
| 41 | I do not want him to return now . |
| 42 | ( If my private test convinces me that I do not want what you think I want , I assume error in your reading of me the public tests , which I must expose or leave you unanswered . ) |
| 43 | I DO not want us to be a little England , impoverished , devoid of influence , sour in isolation , languishing either on the sidelines of Europe or of history . |
| 44 | Who said ‘ I do not want this to look too much like a cynical photocall ’ ? |
| 45 | I do not want a president elected or otherwise . |
| 46 | ‘ I do not want to know the details . |
| 47 | ‘ I do not want to alarm villagers unduly , but they must be made aware of what has happened and take every precaution . ’ |
| 48 | I quote from one such document without giving my source because I do not want the firm to be identified : |
| 49 | ‘ I do not want the beauty to come from the material but from within myself , ’ he wrote later , taking direct responsibility for this process of redemption . |
| 50 | I do not want to embarrass anyone or to moralise , but I feel that this is an area in which modern Christians have been caught in the net of secularisation without realising it . |
| 51 | I am being a trifle cunning in this , as I do not want you to forget me . |
| 52 | I do not want you to call here . |
| 53 | I should like to learn what , if anything , I can do here to enrol for any suitable course to get me into the business world or administration as I do not want to wait till I return to the UK , on leave , in mid-June till I begin finding out more about your courses . |
| 54 | You know your own body , its capabilities and limitations , I do not want to specify the number of times you should attempt each exercise . |
| 55 | ‘ I do not want to put anyone else at risk — including you . ’ |
| 56 | It is my home and I do not want to leave it . ’ |
| 57 | I do not want matriarchy to replace patriarchy as an interim measure because I retain unshakeable faith in women 's ability to organize , to be caring and to be , just in so many ways , superior to men . |
| 58 | Judge Peter Greenwood remanded Gillespie in custody for medical reports , but told him , ‘ I do not want you to think for one moment that you are not facing a custodial sentence . ’ |
| 59 | I must admit this is the fence I do not want to jump , for though I know there are new novels that succeed , I am at something of a loss to describe , in reasonable critical terms , why they succeed . |
| 60 | I do not want my use of pronouns to slip by unnoticed : I want readers to think about it , and to act on their conclusions . |