Example sentences of "no intention of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can assure you that I have no intention of straying into the question of the location of the headquarters of Caledonian MacBrayne . |
| 2 | Nevertheless five men , who had been imprisoned because they deliberately and flagrantly disobeyed the orders of the NIRC , and so imperilled the rule of law and ‘ our whole way of life ’ , were released although they had not asked to be released and had made clear that they had no intention of apologizing to the court for their behaviour or of desisting from that behaviour . |
| 3 | However , there is no intention of dealing with the question of long-waves . |
| 4 | " They have no intention of relying on the trade . " |
| 5 | But he continues to drink away in his own private time and has no intention of following in the dry footsteps of O'Toole and Harris . |
| 6 | I had no idea what I was looking for and certainly no intention of starting on the filing cabinets . |
| 7 | He was a known quantity whose devotion to the Soviet Union was unquestioned ; he would never countenance a multi-party system ; he , unlike Nagy , had no intention of withdrawing from the WTO . |
| 8 | That is to say , there is no subterfuge implied in such an action , and I for one had no intention of overhearing to the extent I did that evening . |
| 9 | Griffiths , 40 , told police that he had no intention of paying for the goods which came from Littlewoods Catalogues , John Moores Catalogues , Empire Stores , Readers Digest and other companies . |
| 10 | We have no intention of interfering with the conduct of your business . ’ |
| 11 | As for President elect Clinton 's oblique references to the asylum laws , one can only assume his administration will have no intention of interfering with the due processes of law in the US . |
| 12 | The defendant had placed himself in a position where his duty and interest conflicted even though both the employee and client appear to have had no intention of remaining with the plaintiff . |
| 13 | The end of the First World War was accompanied by unmistakable evidence that the population of the greater part of Ireland had no intention of remaining within the United Kingdom ; and when the attempt to force a home rule constitution upon them provoked a rebellion , Britain had to recognise defeat , but insisted upon the Irish Free State accepting what was called Canadian status by recognising the King Emperor as its representative for external purposes . |
| 14 | But unbeknown to Ivor , Stroud had no intention of parting with the money . |
| 15 | I had no intention of going through the proper channels ; it could take weeks . |
| 16 | But it was starting to worry her that he could so openly refer to her running away from him , and since she had no intention of going into the ‘ whys ’ and ‘ wherefores ’ of that , and since she had made her apology for deceiving him — and had got off rather lightly , she had to admit — Fabia got to her feet . |
| 17 | They will take initiative for the sake of ‘ the poor and needy strangers ’ , namely those outside the church who have no intention of going near the institutional church . |
| 18 | Lucy had no intention of reverting to the former subject , so she said in a determined voice , ‘ I would like to get on with the job . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've no intention of coming into the palazzo at this time of night . ’ |
| 20 | When his father realised that Christian had no intention of returning to the family estate in Oxfordshire , and breeding prime Herefordshire cattle for the rest of his life , he gave him a small capital sum and washed his hands of him . |
| 21 | She had no intention of returning to the house in a hurry . |
| 22 | By late afternoon she realised he had no intention of returning to the office while she was in it , and she had a strong suspicion that he did not trust her . |