Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] i [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |
| 2 | It is against this background therefore that I would like to state what I see as the relevance of Christianity to political economy . |
| 3 | After her decision to stop working with a model , she wrote : ‘ Through the long time of working on studies , I finally have attained a certain background in technique which allows me to express what I want without a model . ’ |
| 4 | His son James said : ‘ I ca n't find words to express what I feel about the people who did this . |
| 5 | His classmates started , started to curse erm to curse him and to humiliate him I think from the first or the second grade , and erm he was my friend , I had to , to fight for him . |
| 6 | I mean sometimes do it very cleverly but what I 'm saying is I want to illustrate what I meant by the words never used message . |
| 7 | You may think that instead of increasing my catch I would have had to share what I caught with a companion . |
| 8 | The kind of woman I 'm interested in is adult enough to recognise what I want from the outset . |
| 9 | I mean this is something that we could maybe be of help to in fact maybe something that I could be of help to them on because I actually do lectures on public relations how to assess what I mean at a very basic level you want to communicate with press how do you do it but before you do it why do you want to do it . |
| 10 | Just a means to get what I want with the least amount of trouble . ’ |
| 11 | Then they needed to see what I had in the box . |
| 12 | Nothing put me off , I 'm happy to say , but in the years before I got the chance to enjoy what I did for a living , I still had to pay the rent . |
| 13 | ‘ You see , ’ he murmured , ‘ I wanted to believe it , so I could have an excuse to take what I wanted in a fury , instead of reaching out of my confusion and asking for what I wanted — ’ |
| 14 | I would like to give you just one illustration to show what I mean by the disintegrating influence of a dynamic force . |