Example sentences of "not want to " in BNC.
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| 1 | An early passage separates this man , who does not want to be nothing , from the trading elders of his family — pessimists who could take risks , and were consoled by their religion . |
| 2 | Cameron did not want to be asked this . |
| 3 | Eliot , distressed , wrote to Wilson and to another of his champions , Gilbert Seldes , protesting that he did not want to be praised at Pound 's expense since be was indebted to Pound ( as indeed his dedication to Pound as il miglior fabbro had elegantly acknowledged ) . |
| 4 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 5 | They do not want to be in the position of having to make decisions . |
| 6 | ‘ We accept that some of the gypsies , the traditional travellers , do not want to be settled and wish to remain mobile . |
| 7 | The bigger nations , for their part , have already developed systems of takeover supervision , and do not want to be encumbered with another layer of M&A bureaucracy . |
| 8 | We do not want to be handing our paper profits back to the Government . ’ |
| 9 | Thompson did not know the details then because he did not want to . |
| 10 | Still — ‘ I did not see him again and I did not want to ’ . |
| 11 | Maggie did not want to be a crazy person . |
| 12 | It is , I decide , not my fault either that I am a human being who does not want to be eaten alive . |
| 13 | They will not want to be inhibited by arms control treaty commitments . |
| 14 | EFTA does not want to be a ‘ kindergarten ’ for East European countries embarking on the path to market economies , but the looser 23-nation Council of Europe — to which Hungary has already sought entry — might be asked to play this role once democratic elections are held in individual east European countries . |
| 15 | But it 's emotionally draining living here with someone who does not want to be here . ’ |
| 16 | Most of our local people do not want to be tied into packages , ’ says assistant manager Tracey Johnson . |
| 17 | Desiring to flaunt his new found riches he did not want to be seen owning the house which lies behind — a rambling hotchpotch of roof lines and gables which evolved over centuries . |
| 18 | The government wants to tighten immigration controls , but it does not want to be seen as anti-Semitic . |
| 19 | Its leaders say it does not want to be responsible for any disturbances . |
| 20 | And while they force you to be what you do not want to be , they are also teaching you how to be parents . |
| 21 | For native English speakers I would give a quite different kind of lecture , and I did not want to be judged by the standards of my lectures to the Japanese , which were nearly always basic and very simple in expression . |
| 22 | I did not want to ‘ talk about it ’ . |
| 23 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |
| 24 | He did not want to be small . |
| 25 | You do not want to be hungry . |
| 26 | Some of the things we have listed ( such as Weetabix or baked beans ) have sugar in them anyway so ideally you do not want to be adding even more sugar to breakfast meals . |
| 27 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 28 | Reports from the Wehrmacht ‘ Armaments Inspectorates ’ claimed that workers on reserved occupations in armaments factories did not want to be left out of the army and were pressing to join up . |
| 29 | He will obviously not want to be caught , and when he is , any number of problems may become apparent . |
| 30 | He took the part with manifest reluctance ; he did not want to be recognized by Ghorbanifar . |