Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the departments involved are heavily loaded , and none of them want to contribute a key person for this purpose . |
| 2 | Very soon now they will be ready and then I mean to hold a great feast for all my people . |
| 3 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 4 | By the historicity of texts , I mean to suggest the cultural specificity , the social embedment , of all modes of writing … . |
| 5 | ‘ As soon as my work here is finished ’ , he wrote to Constanze , ‘ I shall join you , for I intend to take a long rest in your arms ; and I shall really need it , for all this mental worry and all the rushing about in connection with it is really wearing me out … . ’ |
| 6 | However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint . |
| 7 | I intend to use an external power filter . |
| 8 | Except that this condition clodhopped into view only because I intend to tell the unlipsticked truth to Gill . |
| 9 | I intend to make a great deal of money from this if my speculations are correct . ’ |
| 10 | I intend to uncover the old boy system where everybody covers up when cases like this arise . |
| 11 | Perhaps I should n't interfere but I hate to see a young man throwing his life away . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I hate to see a decent man making a mess of his life . |
| 13 | ‘ I hate to bring the real world into this , but is your room-mate going to pop in at any second ? ’ |
| 14 | Usually when designing pictures I tend to use a particular leaf or flower because of its shape , colour or texture , and pay no attention to its species or variety . |
| 15 | I tend to live a normal life . |
| 16 | I tend to keep a tight rein at first , and gradually relax as I get to know them . |
| 17 | If one has to take a view of the balance between the reinforce-and-stick-with-it , or the cut-your-loss schools , I think I tend to favour the cut-your-loss brigade . |
| 18 | How I long to see the black kid depicted as something other than the tam-donning , dope-smoking , unemployed gang member , structuring his life around reggae music , blues parties , and thieving , and phrasing his life 's ambitions in terms of one day to the next with little or no positive orientation to the world and an outlook flavoured by prejudice and ignorance . |
| 19 | Over the coming months I expect to see the Inland Revenue , the Customs and Excise and the DTI increasingly at work in an area ripe for their activities . |
| 20 | I am not so green that I expect to get the sole credit on this movie . |
| 21 | Instead , I propose to illustrate the distinctive nature of the British polity by comparing it , where appropriate , with the American . |
| 22 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 23 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 24 | I propose to introduce a novel element into the debate by speaking about the Bill . |
| 25 | I hesitate to correct the hon. Gentleman 's pronunciation , but in my day I fought the constituency of Islwyn which is now represented by the Leader of the Opposition , and I can tell him that it is pronounced ’ Issloin ’ . |
| 26 | But also I want to stop a bad thing . ’ |
| 27 | I want to underline the biggest mistake which I believe bands make when they are starting out . |
| 28 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 29 | ‘ I want to visit the Protestant temple . ’ |
| 30 | I want to support an idealistic publication |