Example sentences of "people [verb] [not/n't] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | And certainly the army people did not want incapacitated ones . |
| 2 | The causal connections between early life chances and present opportunities were implicit rather than explicit almost as if people did not want to articulate these except in the ways that I report . |
| 3 | The great mass of the people did not want revolution , or else they would have elected a Labour Government . |
| 4 | That most German people did not want war with England was true by almost every account of neutral witnesses . |
| 5 | No landowner — not even the king — could create a new town if people did not want it . |
| 6 | Nemeth said of Hungary 's transition to multiparty democracy that " the revolution happened not only because people did not want to live in that way , but also because the government did not want to govern in that way " . |
| 7 | People did not want to hold hands with either of them at first , but without her red cloak to remind them of sin , they quickly forgot who Izzie was . |
| 8 | Labour had taken the election manifesto of 1983 — the so-called ‘ longest suicide note in history ’ — and rewritten it on the basis of what it thought the people did n't want . |
| 9 | When they first came to this country — like my mum , when she first came she said she could n't find a place to live because people did n't want black people on their premises . |
| 10 | It was bad cos there was no money , no money about at all , nineteen twenty six strike and what have you and no there was no money at all so people did n't want their babies did they ? |
| 11 | She says in Belgium they 'd give it scraps that people did n't want . ’ |
| 12 | But , the banks and building societies ha have found that people did n't want independent advice , because they did n't ask for it . |
| 13 | The people did n't want to hear the message , and took out their frustration on Jeremiah . |
| 14 | People did n't want it , were n't the money about , investments I suppose . |
| 15 | People did n't want it . |
| 16 | You had to buy too many fonts , and it was too expensive , and people did n't want to by linotype matrices of that size . |
| 17 | Ultimately , if people do n't want to hear you , they do n't want to know you . |
| 18 | Because people do n't want this responsibility they prefer having sons . |
| 19 | After all , if people do n't want it , they wo n't have it . ’ |
| 20 | Further questions on unemployment ‘ people do n't want training they want jobs ’ , homelessness and the NHS left Mr Major a little wobbly but provided him with the best and closing line of the night . |
| 21 | Young people do n't want to enter a hotel as a waiter or bar person , because of the demeaning stigma attached to the job , unlike Greece , Italy or Spain where it is regarded as a worthwhile career . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sure these two young people do n't want us tagging on to them any longer , eh ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ A lot of people do n't want to be in the best band in the world because they do n't give a shit about themselves , ’ he remarks flatly , still playing with his half empty bottle of water . |
| 24 | After all , people do n't want to know about me , but about my books . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ People do n't want to spend £25 on a meal . ’ |
| 26 | We may be an enlightened society but I 'm sure many people do n't want to sit through graphic descriptions of a certain type of sanitary towel — especially at meal times . |
| 27 | ‘ People do n't want a Euro-processed thing , they want stuff that is comfortable , reassuring , honest and masculine . |
| 28 | ‘ People do n't want surprises , they like to know what 's coming , ’ says executive producer Peter Rogers . |
| 29 | He told staff : ‘ If people do n't want to go along with me there is no place for them in Ashworth . ’ |
| 30 | The campaign to ban the show is being led by Tory councillor for Bury , Mervyn Turnberg : ‘ People do n't want this nightmare again , ’ he told the Manchester Evening News . |