Example sentences of "[verb] n't want to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if you do n't , think , oh well I 'd I do n't want to be well it 's not the teachers fault cos you do n't get on ! |
| 2 | So when you break in a house you do n't , you do n't want to be heard you do n't want to be seen . |
| 3 | It 's run by a private charity and they do n't normally accept referrals from outsiders but they did n't want to be too dogmatic about that . ’ |
| 4 | She did n't look like she was there ; she knew she did n't want to be there . |
| 5 | One can imagine his dismay when he returned to the port and found the ship had gone — either earlier than planned or because the crew did n't want to be caught helping him . |
| 6 | By 1982 we had swept up all but a handful of awkward items whose inhabitants , for varying reasons , did n't want to be or could n't be ‘ nationalised ’ — which was very untidy and inconvenient of them . |
| 7 | Terrible as it sounds , you did n't want to be associated with that deprivation It was a downer You wanted out There was no question of not liking blacks , it was a question of social standing . |
| 8 | I did n't want to be totally dependent on any one source of income or any one group . |
| 9 | Men who could use these things comfortably would have to be three metres tall , and when they came I really did n't want to be there . |
| 10 | ‘ But the immigration officials and security men just laughed and said she was pretending because she did n't want to be sent back . ’ |
| 11 | William Durant , who ran GM , did n't want to be involved in the war effort and ordered the Lelands not t proceed with the idea . |
| 12 | I did n't want to be dictated to . ’ |
| 13 | After a while , I told them we did n't want to be treated this way . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd previously been trained in management and I did n't want to be an audio typist . |
| 15 | I did n't want to be naughty , but I really did n't want to go to Combe Court . |
| 16 | He did n't want to be made to look a bastard to his friends . |
| 17 | She did n't want to be left to stand alone in some dark night-time corridor . |
| 18 | Although Bert Cooke , shortly after his conversion , became an active supporter of Paisley 's evangelistic work , he was less than enthusiastic about the public image of the Church : ‘ When I started thinking about full-time service , I did n't want to be a Free Presbyterian . |
| 19 | One young woman , Lucy , told how sad she felt that her mother had very low self-esteem , believed she was unattractive and overweight — even said once that there was nothing she could do or be that Lucy and her sisters ‘ could n't do or be better ’ , which made Lucy feel envied and forced into competition with her mother , when she did n't want to be . |
| 20 | I decided then that I did n't want to be a martyr , and since then I have n't been near a hairdresser 's . |
| 21 | ‘ She was a simple commodity with a squeaky-clean public image and there was n't still is n't — a kid who did n't want to be like her or a parent who would discourage their children from admiring her . ’ |
| 22 | Then I knew it was because I did n't want to be loved and respected , since I do n't deserve to be . |
| 23 | ‘ When he took me into the lead I did n't want to be there that soon — so many horses have been caught after being clear , ’ he said . |
| 24 | They did n't want to be shot . |
| 25 | Well , after we sold about fifty thousand , Terence Stamp decided he did n't want to be on our cover so we got Morrissey to pose in the same position . |
| 26 | The plan was that everyone would meet at the cottage on Boxing Day , making their own way there and hopefully bringing enormous amounts of expensive food and drink if they did n't want to be turned back at the gate . |
| 27 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 28 | Perhaps you only forgot things you did n't want to be there in the first place . |
| 29 | No one in their history had ever said to them that they did n't want to be famous , ’ says Gedge . |
| 30 | He did n't want to be a juvenile delinquent . |