Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 fans do n't want all that , ’ he said . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If those trainers did n't want to end up in a splash they 'd better get out of the way before I … |
| 6 | Their husbands do n't want them to do anything which is not passive , and in the end women end up believing the same . |
| 7 | ‘ If clients do n't want you to touch them , they just say no . |
| 8 | The non-Congress political parties do not want Rajiv Gandhi to get any credit for it . |
| 9 | For instance , if the parties do not want the expert to consider any evidence other than that contained in their submissions , and do not want him to make his own independent investigations , they could stipulate to that effect in the expert clause . |
| 10 | The kids did n't want to know about life outside Battle Creek . |
| 11 | So it 's definitely the latter , we are developing a fully capable Eurofighter two thousand aircraft and if erm any of our four participating nations do not want a particular facility then we will make provision for them to leave that out in production and if an export customer does not require the full range of capabilities we can also remove them for that export customer . |
| 12 | Manufacturers do n't want computers to suffer the same fate as educational TV — a lot of promise but precious little worthwhile application . |
| 13 | The animals did n't want to go near him so I took care of him . |
| 14 | Reader 's Digest , article on road traffic accidents , never starts , ‘ Last year there were fifty thousand road traffic accidents in the British Isles ’ , because Reader 's Digest readers do n't want to read that . |
| 15 | Teenagers do not want parents too interested or involved in their world . |
| 16 | Older teenagers do not want a mother to be yearning over them day and night , even when several hundred miles lie between them . |
| 17 | The shops did not want him . |
| 18 | And the animals do n't want get up do they ? |
| 19 | At the beginning of March , 75% of our supporters did not want Civic Forum to become a political party . |
| 20 | A MORI poll commissioned by the Independent Schools Information Service , representing most private schools , suggests 57 per cent of Labour supporters do not want such schools abolished . |
| 21 | These kids do n't want this confrontation . |
| 22 | The implication of this note is that most readers did not want to hear that anything was wrong , and that Wordsworth 's doubts about the growth of industry show original thinking on his part . |
| 23 | Gentle readers did not want their poetry linked with what amounts to sociology ; with his taste for ‘ interviewing ’ the practitioners of strange trades like the Leechgatherer and asking ‘ How is it that you live and what is it you do ? ’ |
| 24 | Most Norwegians do not want to let others get their hands on the goodies — and that is what EC membership would involve . |
| 25 | Those that are n't winners do n't want to know what 's happening to anybody else . |
| 26 | The armchair traveller for whom you are shooting these pictures does not want to visualize paradise under cloud . |
| 27 | Having established that his visitors did not want a drink , the businessman poured himself a tall glass of gin and tonic . |
| 28 | These international visitors do n't want to shock , only to impress … and give the Oxford crowd something of a fairy tale ending . |
| 29 | Laura still needs several months treatment and her parents do not want to leave her side . |
| 30 | Parents do not want trendy socio-economic arguments about why their school is not as good as another . |