Example sentences of "[not/n't] that i want " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’ |
| 2 | It 's not that I want to be the ideal woman ; I 'd simply like to be able to walk down a street and not even think about it . |
| 3 | Not that I want to look as if I shop at Next , or look cute , or anything , it 's just that I ca n't afford to dress the way I 'd like to . |
| 4 | Not that I want to suggest that any of those adjectives applies to a question from Jack Ashley to the Health Minister , Kenneth Clarke . |
| 5 | It 's not that I want to play the most difficult things ; I really do n't . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not that I want to be away from here , ’ Eve said earnestly . |
| 7 | ‘ Not that I want to , miserable bugger . ’ |
| 8 | It 's not that I want to die , but I just want to get out of my mind ’ . |
| 9 | I could n't do that , not that I want to . |
| 10 | I ca n't , not that I want to . |
| 11 | Sorry , my my my other point is about about Ryedale , and and and its its and its its unde its relationship to Southern Ryedale , and erm Mr Smith said that erm as far as Ryedale Council are concerned they ca n't identify any more land within Southern Ryedale , well of course they would say that because was there position at the Southern Ryedale plan , but the fact of the matter is that there was a great dispute at the York greenbelt Southern Ryedale plan enquiry , revol resolving around the issue of what were the bits of the greenbelt which made up the historic character and thereby what were you left with that potentially could be developed , albeit it might be reserved as white land in the first place , but could potentially be developed , and a great deal of this land on the disputed side lay in Southern Ryedale , that in that in fact there was a view around the table not only sh not only shared by by the developers side , but erm that large parts of Osbaldwick and Huntingdon did n't fall within the definition of greenbelt as as set out by by the County Council in their N Y Two Two document , now that matter clearly has got to be something left to the Inspector and the Greenbelt Inquiry , but I think it 's fair to point out that there is actually a difference of view , so it 's not an absolute position , that you ca n't identify more land within within Southern Ryedale , and indeed , erm , not that I want to raise the Local Government Commission 's head again , but of course the Local Government Commission is proposing that York be a unitary authority expanded , and once Yor , if York does become a unitary authority expanded then some of these areas will fall within their area , and they may have a different view than er the Ryedale current Ryedale district council does , and therefore I think it is a little unsafe to take just at pure se pure face value , that there is no more land within Southern Ryedale that could be developed . |
| 12 | Not that I want to kill anybody now , but it is all for defence rather than offence , and it does make me feel a lot more secure . |
| 13 | Not that I want you to agree with your colleague , but check perhaps , particularly for a bearing yourself . |
| 14 | Not that I wanted to play chess nor even to frighten the good citizens of Budapest with a glimpse of my bare cadaver — my bathing trunks now also fell off me — but rather that the idea of a character — perhaps fleeing from something or someone — standing in those steaming baths moving queens and pawns , fitted perfectly into the outline I had . |
| 15 | Not that I wanted … |
| 16 | Not that I wanted you to be my lover . |
| 17 | ‘ Not that I wanted them to go , ’ she said . |
| 18 | So that 's why I came home , not that I wanted to come you know , to give it up . |