Example sentences of "[conj] he did [not/n't] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marius went off to Berkshire — where he did n't want to be disturbed . |
| 2 | But he had a problem : the card she had so rapidly thrust into his hand was her business card , no home address , just Belmodes , Mouncy Street , which he knew but where he did not want to wait to visit . |
| 3 | Eliot , distressed , wrote to Wilson and to another of his champions , Gilbert Seldes , protesting that he did not want to be praised at Pound 's expense since be was indebted to Pound ( as indeed his dedication to Pound as il miglior fabbro had elegantly acknowledged ) . |
| 4 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 5 | Such a purchaser would , in effect , buy a firm that he did not want to own for long in its present shape . |
| 6 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | He said his was perhaps an ‘ old-fashioned ’ view — that he did not want to see the entire world addicted to drugs , like the synthetic existence described in Brave New World — but it was an enormous leap , he thought , from ‘ smoking a little grass to that grim picture ’ . |
| 9 | When Val was gone , Roland realised , with a shock like a religious conversion , that he did not want their way of life to go on . |
| 10 | He had said that he did not want a solicitor when he first arrived at the police station , at 2 p.m . |
| 11 | Back at his hotel , packing for his return to London , John wondered how to fit this large acquisition into his luggage , could not think of a way , decided that he did not want a souvenir of the trip anyway because of his gloom about the impending ballet , so tore it up and threw it in the wastepaper basket . |
| 12 | On 5 November 1937 Hitler made a public speech in which he said that Germany had no claim on Danzig and that he did not want to change the city 's status : ‘ Danzig ist mit Polen verbunden — Danzig is with Poland bound . ’ |
| 13 | The film people wanted to shoot in the local pub , but the landlord refused them permission , explaining that he did not want to inconvenience his regular customers , despite being offered a tidy sum as recompense . |
| 14 | He received hospital treatment for a cut eye and a split lip but told police that he did not want to press charges . |
| 15 | He used to say that he did not want to listen to a man like Beethoven , whose stormy music told his hearers all about himself and his troubles , but rather to hear the pure beauty of musical form , which so far as he was concerned reached its acme in Mozart 's classical perfection . |
| 16 | He said , on repeated occasions , that he did not want any more families . |
| 17 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 18 | The fact that he forbade an official biography — as early as 1925 , he had decided that he did not want one — has suggested to many people that such a biography would necessarily be of a scandalous nature . |
| 19 | All he said was that he did not want anyone ‘ fishing about ’ in his private life . |
| 20 | He was informed of his rights after arrest and said that he did not want a solicitor . |
| 21 | During the third interview , he was asked to confirm that he did not want a solicitor , and he replied ‘ I have n't got a solicitor . ’ |
| 22 | in which C had affirmatively said that he did not want a solicitor . |
| 23 | Mr. Hallworth 's evidence was that he did not want her to enter into the transaction , but she said she wanted to go ahead with it . |
| 24 | She could hardly descend on Giovanna Sassanta 's house without an appointment , and Anthony had made it abundantly clear that he did not want her to cross the threshold of his hospital . |
| 25 | More than one bride 's father has been heard to say that he did not want to have a large engagement party if the wedding was to follow within a year because that would involve him in the organization and expense of ‘ two weddings ’ . |
| 26 | I tried once or twice to reverse our roles , but he again made it clear that he did not want to talk about himself I said nothing about the glove . |
| 27 | He tried to fudge the issue earlier by saying that he did not want to specify periods . |
| 28 | Hopkins 's attitude to the publication of his poetry had always been ambivalent , but his habit of sending copies to Bridges indicates that he did not want them lost . |
| 29 | as if Erdle knew something about him , or his background , that he did not want generally known . |
| 30 | However , I soon realized that he did not want their friendship to grow into love . |