Example sentences of "not want [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not want success at all costs , but likewise they were not willing to jump off the pop escalator , or stand on the spot arguing among themselves . |
| 2 | Could it be that the Germans in the west did not want unity after all , despite those opinion polls over decades showing they did ? |
| 3 | ‘ Let's face it — he may not want help of any sort . |
| 4 | Japan did not want war against Tsarist Russia but was determined to fight unless positive assurances were forthcoming that Russia would cease to meddle in Korean affairs . |
| 5 | I 've come a long way to make a reconciliation with him , and I do n't want interference from some snooty cocktail waitress . |
| 6 | No , you do n't want friends like these , Steven . |
| 7 | Just to add to what 's been said erm there , there have been some points raised er along the lines I 've mentioned and as a result of that erm it is felt that erm notification to members who are not on the application sub-committee of applications which affect their ward area could be improved and that is er I hope to be the subject of a report to the next meeting of the Application Sub-Committee , so that er matter i is something which is , which is being picked up and will be considered by that sub-committee but it does give me the opportunity to say that erm the definition of a complaint i is certainly not a precise one and I certainly would n't want members of this committee to feel that I was being complacent er as a result of there only being three complaints that we received . |
| 8 | Well I do n't want teeth like that . |
| 9 | you could of seriously because they want , they do n't want models like that erm |
| 10 | Anne Lennox and Liz Weeks told how the new crisis has ‘ opened old wounds ’ and said : ‘ We would n't want families of British servicemen to go through the pain we had to endure . ’ |
| 11 | She did n't want involvement with any man ; it was simply a cruel twist of fate that she had got it , and there was no way that she was going to expose her vulnerability to him . |
| 12 | So he does n't want incidents like this . ’ |
| 13 | Oh , I said , I do n't want things like that , I said , take them away . |
| 14 | No do n't be silly they just want vocabulary , they do n't want things like that , they want to know a person 's vocabulary a to cer you know , at a certain age . |
| 15 | She did n't want babies for some years yet ; she was n't ready for them . |
| 16 | We do n't want Kinnock under any circumstances . ’ |
| 17 | I mean , of course there were things that were missed out I suppose , but also , I suppose , we were quite young , so it may have quite embarrassing and we did n't want talk about certain things . |