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didn't and want
He certainly didn't want a wife who was fickle as Ann.
`` We didn't want town work '', Jones said.
He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.
He didn't want to put himself outside the law.
He didn't want us to get married.
`` Why didn't he want you to get hitched ''??
In fact, he didn't want to teach anywhere.
By leaving me everything he wouldn't be doing me a favor, my father told him, and he didn't want to see his daughter involved in a lawsuit.
I didn't offer any advice, but I certainly did not want to go back to where the officer lay with his brains dashed out.
He did not want to bring the Andruses to the station house too early -- Rheinholdt had summoned a press conference, and he didn't want them subjected to the reporters again.
I didn't want her back on that broken record.
Eileen had a wonderful way of not listening to things she didn't want to hear.
I didn't want to touch him and I hoped Ma would do it but she kept looking at the kid's clothes piled on the floor and the pool of water by them and didn't make any move to.
And then again perhaps the reason why he couldn't find time to do any of the things he had planned to do after retirement: reading, roaming, gardening, lying on his back and watching the clouds go by, was because he didn't want to do them.
I know now why the students insisted that I go to Hiroshima even when I told them I didn't want to.
I remember her because she didn't want her picture in the paper.
The King Arthur offered respectable and convenient lodgings to people from the suburbs who wanted to see a show and didn't want -- heaven knew didn't want!!
He just didn't want to talk about it.
Only then did he decide he didn't want one.

didn't and Alfred
It was in the spring of the year when he took to his bed and Tessie and Alfred found out that they didn't know each other.
He was able to smell a bargain -- and a masterpiece -- a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: `` I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about ''.
Although Rózsa considered Spellbound to contain some of his best work, he said " Alfred Hitchcock didn't like the music-said it got in the way of his direction.
Its biggest claims to fame is that it was the childhood home of Tippi Hedren, the star of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds In Hedron's book Cats of Shambala, she wrote that she was born in New Ulm, as Lafayette didn't have a hospital.
One of seven children of Muriel Isabel ( née Sprissler ) and Dr. William Alfred Dafoe, he recalled in 2009, " My five sisters raised me because my father was a surgeon, my mother was a nurse and they worked together, so I didn't see either of them much.
In fact, such careful care had been taken to hide Martin's birthname from him that he didn't find out until entering school ; on his first day, while the teacher took attendance, his teacher called on " Alfred Martin " and young Billy thought she had skipped over him.
Critics claim that the heroic rescue of a guard's young daughter from sharks, which Charrière describes graphically in his book, was in fact carried out by another convict named Alfred Steffen who lost both legs and subsequently died. When some critics questioned the veracity of his story and said he erred on some of the dates, Charrière replied: " I didn't have a typewriter with me.
He says " Dorothy didn't like the title, Alfred Harcourt didn't like the title, his editors didn't like it, nobody liked it but me.
As in some of his writings he showed nationalistic ideas, he was later considered by the Nazis as one of ' their ' writers ( despite the fact that Löns ' lifestyle didn't match the Nazi ideals ), as parts of his works fit well within the ' Blood and soil ' ethos of National Socialism, with National Socialist ideologues such as Walther Darre and Alfred Rosenberg lauding the peasantry and small rural communities as the true lifeblood of the German nation.
Ochs showed great thematic versatility on the album, including not just blatantly anti-war or protest songs but also poetry ( Alfred Noyes, John Rooney, and Ewan MacColl ) and some songs his followers probably didn't want to hear.

didn't and leave
Why should I go over at midnight to check on Francie, when her parents didn't care enough to leave a party??
I'd been seeing Johnnie almost a year now, but I still didn't want to leave him for five whole days.
dumbbell, striking the back of his head, later saying he had committed the crime because " the guy wanted to leave and didn't want him to.
These first Maldivians didn't leave any archaeological remains.
This was done by a group of people with anarchists ideas stating that " capitalism allows banks to own a house and leave them intentionally empty so that they will rot on their own and be replaced with a shopping center, using money that didn't exist and left the debt to the people that many did not participate in the loan-spree advocated by the banks before depression.
Though transportation out of the city was available to her and her daughter, she decided to stay in Weimar as she didn't want to leave her servants to their own luck.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, a friend of Tracy's, later theorized: " didn't leave Louise.
He said, ' You didn't have to leave – you could have made this a much better picture.
He also signed a bill allowing employees to use family leave to care for a domestic partner, though he didn't make good on a campaign promise to convene a task force on civil unions.
Because his lawyers didn't submit the statement of reason for appeal, Tokyo High Court decided not to grant them leave to appeal on March 27, 2006.
The two Wilfredos of Puerto Rico had gone 1-1 that night, but their show of bravery and championship heart didn't leave many boxing fans disappointed.
This didn't leave much room for a fledgling town to get started so, almost as fast as it appeared, it disappeared.
Gaye didn't leave behind a will or an insurance policy at the time of his death.
During the spring General Lewenhaupt in Courland had been ordered to gather supplies and march with his army of about 12, 000 men to join Charles ' army, although he didn't leave Mitau until late June and couldn't join Charles ' forces until 11 October.
When she makes them leave before receiving the drink, Darrin says " if you didn't want the zombie I would have drank it " so she conjures one for him.
During this period Suzuki wanted to leave Zoun-in but equally didn't want to give up.
The Blues failed to admit publicly that the trade was a result of the pending lawsuit against Gilmour, but Gilmour was convinced it was the reason: " I didn't want to leave St. Louis but from what has happened the past week, on our part and on the St. Louis Blues ' part, it was our best solution.
Travis reveals he didn't leave, gives the Gato to Mariana and the two of them leave as the villagers celebrate.
Neither Chrissy or Jo can cook, and " Eleanor didn't leave the recipe for toast.
Just before starting the recording sessions for the album, Mendel turned down the opportunity, noting that he didn't want to leave what he had with the Foo Fighters for a potentially tenuous reunion.
Howl didn't tell him to leave but he also didn't tell him to stay, so Michael started helping out of his own accord.
I really didn't want to leave you any clues.

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