Example sentences of "i [verb] not want [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not want my new friends to know I am connected to a boring man like you . |
| 2 | I do not want my use of pronouns to slip by unnoticed : I want readers to think about it , and to act on their conclusions . |
| 3 | ‘ I do not want my life discussed over there . ’ |
| 4 | I do not want my family harmed or my gallery burned down , so I shall not say who they are . |
| 5 | It would be unfair to pretend that , but I do not want my hon. Friend to be carried away by the importance of it . |
| 6 | I do not want my grandchildren to do what their grandfather did , or even marginally what I had to do . |
| 7 | Tyminski announced on Oct. 4 that he would be returning to Canada , because " I do not want my presence here to create the appearance of honesty in these elections " . |
| 8 | ‘ I do not want your stinking name , ’ Gina said . |
| 9 | I do not want your emblems of slavery . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do not want your middle names , you blister ! ’ the Gorgon bellowed . |
| 11 | I do not want your heart broken , which I fear it might be if you saw him unhappy . ’ |
| 12 | I do not want your explanations . |
| 13 | ‘ I stopped my eight- and ten-year-olds from watching Grange Hill , ’ she says , ‘ because it covered abortion and , however well it was done , I did not want their first experience of it to be through television . ’ |
| 14 | After that I did not want my son to go to school but in the end some Bengali men in the area took it up with the Headmaster and since then there has been no trouble . |
| 15 | I changed my surname because I did not want my sire 's name . |
| 16 | I did not want our enemy to know I was here , but I wanted to be near enough to make sure that you and Sir Henry were safe . |