Example sentences of "i wish [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish to touch on three proposals . |
| 2 | I wish to return to those qualities and define them in a more personal way , and with the help of a fine Middle English word : clanness , or ‘ cleanness ’ . |
| 3 | Now , what I wish to ask in this book is whether this way of thinking about Britain 's decline is useful and accurate . |
| 4 | Now , what I wish to ask in this book is whether this way of thinking about Britain 's decline is useful and accurate . |
| 5 | One path of enquiry leads Gallop to repudiate this ‘ homosexual economy ’ and speculate thus : ‘ I wish to speak of radical heterosexuality , a true openness and love for the heteros , the other , an intercourse between two modalities … . |
| 6 | Although the above example is a relatively trivial one , it is the kind of image of our imprecise and variable relationship with crime and conformity that I wish to portray in postclassical criminology . |
| 7 | The only comment I wish to make at this stage is that the court recognised that I had no intention to act in defiance of an order of the court or to hold myself above the law . |
| 8 | The major point I wish to make in this chapter can now be stated . |
| 9 | ‘ I have learned all I wish to know of American women . |
| 10 | Given that I wish to stay in these waters I must be careful neither to give offence nor to provoke jealousy . ’ |
| 11 | Our hair became longer and — in police terms — almost verged on the wild , confirming Hallpike , ( 1969 : 260 ) , who argued : ‘ the hypothesis I wish to advance in this article [ is ] that long hair is associated with being outside society and that the cutting of hair symbolizes re-entering society , or living under a particularly disciplinary regime within society … . |