Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can not afford or do not want new furniture , then start to attack the soft furnishings . |
| 2 | For others it might be that they want the relationship to end completely and do not want to be financially dependent on their former partners ( Bradshaw and Millar found that a fifth of those not receiving maintenance said that they did not want any ) . |
| 3 | it 's like the , cos I keep saying if you must do those F's you do it at school I said , but do not do them for me , I said if you do I do not want to see them , but again you 've got a conflict there between home and school |
| 4 | I am sorry to be awkward , but I think you will see that these questions must be answered and if we are going to take extreme positions then we would have to do double the home work that the people do who do n't want to . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 7 | Erm what thin would you like to do more fractions , more counting or you you think whatever it is that you 'd like to do more of or is there anything you think we do too much of and we do n't you do n't want to do as much . |
| 8 | You w you will tr we do n't want you know va I mean if we get too many , it could go the other way , but we i if we could get three or four items , that would be very nice . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But I mean often women would say , what can I do , I do n't want any more babies , what can I do ? |
| 11 | To punish me because he can see I do n't want to ? |
| 12 | about it , because you see I do n't want anyone breaking my door down and bashing in , you do n't know who 's who these days , do you and er but you see they , that 's how . |
| 13 | Can , sorry , can I I do n't want to stray into item matter B . |
| 14 | Well do the best you can er I do n't want exact words obviously but what was the burden of what he was the gist , the effects of what he was saying ? |
| 15 | I mean you do n't normally do n't want to talk to me . |
| 16 | She began to speak , but he said , with a shrug , ‘ I can see you do n't want to get too involved , so perhaps we 'd better forget it . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , but the thing I 'd smu my mum would we do n't want one as far as these . |
| 18 | You see they do n't want finicky stuff , they want er a large pay packet fo , er stamping er envelopes . |
| 19 | See I do n't want to get it too wet warm it up in a minute ca n't we ? |
| 20 | Well I think I 'd better do n't want none of these burpers so might as well get rid of them . |
| 21 | Well do n't yo you do n't want anything cooked do you ? |
| 22 | the thing is , he saw it without an M O T and that lad wanted it , as soon as you 've got it M O T 'd he do n't want it |
| 23 | It 's important but I , I would n't I do n't want to er get carried away with the fact that we 're not performing well because we are performing well . |
| 24 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 25 | Cos you ca n't I do n't want that on the tape . |
| 26 | Erm I 'm half and half I I I go along with Angela in the main that the the kids in , generally speaking the kids that I 've talked to do n't want to put their own input a lot of them do n't want to because , as Angela says , they can not find the appropriate words and some of the others just write some some stuff that I would look at |
| 27 | Oh I , I do n't want to do n't want to butt in Tom |
| 28 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 29 | How I slept too much , and less and less well of course , but the truth was I did not want to wake up . |
| 30 | I did not want any stranger thinking I could be keen on anything my sister was stupid enough to find interesting . |