Example sentences of "[noun] do [not/n't] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On the train from Harwich to London our cases were taken away as our guarantors did not want us wearing funny clothes , ’ one girl remembers . |
| 2 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 3 | Also the Opposition did not want to waste time on such minutiae , preferring to tackle the government on wider issues arising from the conduct of foreign or domestic policy . |
| 4 | ‘ The fans do n't want all that , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Er mummy do n't want that I 've had enough |
| 6 | Bonanza did n't want to waste time arguing about payment in an emergency . ’ |
| 7 | The difficulty arose because for the most part the single-sex grammar schools did not want to become co-educational , in spite of the court 's ruling . |
| 8 | Here a series of councils of war revealed that the Highlanders did not want to cross the Border into England , while Forster 's Northumbrians were more interested in reclaiming England than Scotland for King James . |
| 9 | Wainfleet did not want it back , the only reason he was carrying it around was that he had jotted a telephone number on the back . |
| 10 | If those trainers did n't want to end up in a splash they 'd better get out of the way before I … |
| 11 | Now that the old man knew of his weakness , Vashinov did not want the project to fail and thereby have the finger of incompetence pointed at him . |
| 12 | It was conflict 's sake , what the tenants association did n't want was a solution , it wanted a lovely , publicity-generating conflict . |
| 13 | When Van Cheele got to London , Cunningham did not want to talk at first . |
| 14 | The EABA did not want the British fighters eliminating other nations ’ boxers , so ruled they must meet each other first before the survivor boxes against other European nations . |
| 15 | The spokesman , citing information received from Israel , said the PLO did not want Israel to look good in the world 's eyes for taking the refugees in , especially after having been widely criticised for recently expelling 400 Palestinians into a no man 's land in Lebanon . |
| 16 | Their husbands do n't want them to do anything which is not passive , and in the end women end up believing the same . |
| 17 | Er , particularly since it was only half right , or you could n't exactly tell which half , not very clearly , so if it 's half by Freud , and er , it was a book erm , on erm , a controversial figure arguing over very controversial pieces , and I think the psychoanalytic study did n't want to have anything to do with it , and er , er , one of the reviews of the psychoanalytic journal that said that this is the kind of book that gets psychoanalysis a bad name . |
| 18 | The Sheldons do not want revenge . |
| 19 | Dennis did n't want anything to change that . |
| 20 | The moguls of Thailand 's flourishing tourist industry do not want bad news to interfere with good times , especially among all those single men who crowd Bangkok airport . |
| 21 | Jay would not be shut out and from what she could tell , Lucy did n't want to shut her out . |
| 22 | Bella did n't want to be called guilty ; her instinct was always for ambiguity . |
| 23 | ‘ If clients do n't want you to touch them , they just say no . |
| 24 | In that case the union had negotiated a favourable package for those employees whom the transferee did not want to take on and who , it was agreed , should remain with the transferor . |
| 25 | Dot did n't want anything to change . |
| 26 | Dot did n't want that . |
| 27 | Dot did n't want to have to go away somewhere . |
| 28 | Dot did n't want to forget all about it . |
| 29 | Dot did n't want to hurt its face so she placed her knees carefully to one side of the lamb so that they pressed into the sewn field of flowers on the edge . |
| 30 | The future was still uncertain enough for Morley to declare ‘ U2 do n't want to be cultish . |