Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] do n't want " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've tried one or two of them , but the kids just do n't want to know . |
| 2 | And that 's something many fans simply do n't want . |
| 3 | If a child is born with a disability and the parents then do n't want it . |
| 4 | After so many years of being on my own I really do n't want to settle down and commit myself to a relationship . |
| 5 | But often , so drab is he that even when he barges into the pub waving a bottle of paraquat and shouting I dun n it , people just do n't want to know . |
| 6 | ‘ People just do n't want to be part of a world that does n't have comparison , or spontaneity , where playfulness is just limited to football and sex ! |
| 7 | If you do n't have a pleasant manner and if it looks as if you have no spare cash , people just do n't want to deal with you ; it 's not a viable proposition . |
| 8 | I do n't think Jennifer even hears from them any more … it 's sad really how people just do n't want to know … ’ |
| 9 | Some people just do n't want to sell and we can only pay the going rate . |
| 10 | If you 're a bully , people just do n't want to know you . ’ |
| 11 | People here do n't want downers , they want kicks . |
| 12 | Kobena Mercer and Isaac Julien are right to emphasize that the complexity which arises at the junction of race and sexuality is something which ‘ some people simply do n't want to talk about ’ . |
| 13 | Young people today do n't want to spend their time stooging around playing cribbage with the old folks in the village hall . |
| 14 | They 're not doing this or that but in lots of cases , and I 've known of lots of cases where children just do n't want to know ! |
| 15 | ‘ I mean , if you believe that , then what you 're saying is women basically do n't want sex , but if they have enough food stuffed down their faces , they might be persuaded . |
| 16 | We males naturally reject the idea that we 're not at all times ready to cream anything that moves as a monstrous slander on our virility , while women certainly do n't want to think that creatures whose sexual urges are so undiscriminating that they have been known to rape grannies and animals and even corpses , for God 's sake , could possibly find them so unattractive that they need to simulate orgasm . |