Example sentences of "want [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also — and I 'm quite prepared to admit this — because of all the problems I was having trying to find work , just at that moment I really did n't want the bother of hunting for a new home . |
| 2 | The client did not want the teddy to have glass eyes . |
| 3 | ‘ What do they want the pub for ? ’ he asked . |
| 4 | ‘ Also , if you allow the dog to sit on your settee , then replace that settee with a new one you do n't want the dog to sit on , you must not expect it to suddenly understand why it can not sit there . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't want the kitchen sink . |
| 6 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 7 | ‘ I simply do n't want the ball put at risk in areas where we are immediately vulnerable to counter-attacks and we must always be giving the opposition something to think about . |
| 8 | ‘ We did not want the war , he continued , his voice getting weaker . |
| 9 | We were looking forward to our walk but did n't want the holiday to end . |
| 10 | He did not want the job at all . |
| 11 | Why do you want the social sec ? he asked . |
| 12 | Nathan hated them because they implied that he was terribly little and when you are terribly little you do n't want the world to keep pointing it out to you at every opportunity . |
| 13 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 14 | McCloy would want the lion 's share of whatever the load realised and if Hatton , a mere decoy , got five hundred , the three henchmen would be worth at least five hundred apiece . |
| 15 | They had enjoyed his single status and the attention he devoted to them , and frankly did not want the intrusion of a newcomer . |
| 16 | If the farmers did not want the foxes , they would plough up those areas , and some of those other species might entirely disappear . |
| 17 | Nor does it want the German tail to wag the European dog . |
| 18 | ‘ With the Government slowly clamping down on all media coverage , unless I moved fast any chance of filming within South Africa would be gone and I did want the accuracy and flavour of the country itself to come through in the film . ’ |
| 19 | Miss Norma Scott , aged 23 , failed to report her mother 's death because she did not want the council to discover the squalid conditions at her home in Bilsmoor Avenue , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 20 | Foley does not want the permanent job , saying : ‘ I again regard it as a short-term business . ’ |
| 21 | We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know . |
| 22 | James Baker , the secretary of state , told Congress recently that his review of Middle East policy convinced him long before the invasion of Kuwait that the ‘ old view that we somehow did not want the Soviets involved is a mistake ’ . |
| 23 | Alas , Mr Shevardnadze speaks almost no English or French and may not want the job . |
| 24 | When George Bush called for Saddam to be deposed , it was clear that : he did not want the Kurds to do it ( that would displease Turkey , Syria , Iran and Russia , and therefore , everybody else ) ; he did not want the Shiites to do it ( that would please Iran and so displease everybody else ) ; and he was not sure if he wanted the Sunnis to do it ( because that might make the Kurds and the Shiites do it , too ) . |
| 25 | When George Bush called for Saddam to be deposed , it was clear that : he did not want the Kurds to do it ( that would displease Turkey , Syria , Iran and Russia , and therefore , everybody else ) ; he did not want the Shiites to do it ( that would please Iran and so displease everybody else ) ; and he was not sure if he wanted the Sunnis to do it ( because that might make the Kurds and the Shiites do it , too ) . |
| 26 | The buyer would want the price to be well below the value of his monopoly , to maximise his profits . |
| 27 | She was single , had no close relatives and did n't want the neighbours to know the diagnosis . |
| 28 | ‘ He does n't want the world to see him like this , ’ says Howard . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't you still want the same things ? |
| 30 | Or d' you want the whole ward to wake up just for one milk tooth ? ’ |