Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] we do [not/n't] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is tight security at our homes but we do not want to have to put bars over the windows . ’ |
| 2 | We do n't send more papers out to external referees because we do n't want to exhaust this valuable resource ( even though we have about 2500 referees on our database ) and because we are the best judge of issues like whether the paper belongs in the BMJ or another sort of journal . |
| 3 | We 've lived in the city all our lives and we do n't want to be buried in the country , however nice the house . |
| 4 | Darlington should tell the organisers that we do n't want this exhibition . ’ |
| 5 | Things that we do n't want to remember may be indelibly engraved on the mind , little eroded even by time , but million of unimportant things are blissfully forgotten — which is just as well for our mental health ! |
| 6 | Well we 've all got things that we do n't want to do have n't we ? |
| 7 | The Commission make us do things that we do not want to do and stops us doing what we want to . |
| 8 | It already makes us do things that we do not want to do and stops us doing things that we want to do . |
| 9 | We have n't any ambitions and we do n't want any great changes , so we all hate war . |
| 10 | We did n't tell them about the Germans because we did n't want them to be more worried than they were already . |
| 11 | My husband and I had always lamented not learning to ski as young children so we did n't want Jessica , our two-year-old , to miss out too . |
| 12 | We like these fellows but we do n't want to marry them . ’ |
| 13 | And , a a I mean I think we have , you know , to be feminists because we do n't want to be better than men , we just want to be equal . |
| 14 | In fact , I 'd reject every plan handed in today — on the grounds that we do n't want railways operated by skin-of-the-teeth men . ’ |
| 15 | And be doing all our they will be gon na come and do all the jobs that we do n't want like in , in catering and , and things like that . |
| 16 | ‘ These men had been trained to do specific jobs and we did not want to see their skills just thrown away . ’ |