Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rang me just before a show and said the words : ‘ Well , I intend to bring the show to New York . |
| 2 | Meanwhile I propose paying a visit to the offices of the Wiener Tageblatt . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I want to issue a challenge to Michael Fallon : will he explain why he believes people in Darlington should earn less than £3.40 a hour when as a government minister he earned £1,000 a week . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I want to see an end to those days ’ , Farr-Jones adds . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to give the impression to the rest of the world that things are bad but we are holding our own . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Of course not , but the police are interested in those keys too and I want to put a stop to Shildon searching my property . ’ |
| 7 | I want to put an end to every consequence of Maurice 's scheme . |
| 8 | I want to send a telex to Alex Raneleigh in Brussels . |
| 9 | Formulated in words suggested by this quotation , the question I want to find an answer to is : are there logical conditions of someone 's having the experience of seeing something as , say , blue ? |
| 10 | I want to propose a toast to an absent — and sorely missed — friend . |
| 11 | ‘ Rose , ’ she said , ‘ I want to write a letter to my daughter , my daughter in Germany . |
| 12 | I want to make a call to … |
| 13 | ‘ You know very well that I want to make an offer to your son . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to pay a visit to the museum . |
| 15 | I stop to give a lift to two young warriors who are fully made up in ochre topped by head-dresses . |
| 16 | I 'd made a commitment to the Branch Secretaries and to the Representatives that there will be a full Representatives Conference of which those proposals will be debated and discussed . |
| 17 | I reported last time that I 'd made an approach to Chris . |
| 18 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 19 | ‘ The receptionist at the hotel could have told you that I 'd taken a taxi to Prague railway station , ’ she offered . |
| 20 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 21 | On Wednesday I met Mrs Matthews in the street and she asked if I 'd taken the cat to the vet and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 22 | She said I 'd chosen the path to failure . |
| 23 | ‘ If I 'd had the sense to be frank with her last March , maybe I could have done that . |
| 24 | I 've caught some , where I 'd caught a bus to you , if , remember when I was decorating the flat ? |
| 25 | By the time I 'd sawn the wood to the right length and we 'd nailed the pieces together to form a floor , we were both sweating . |
| 26 | I hope to send the document to the DoE via the Welsh Office in the next couple of weeks and to publish it late in May . |
| 27 | I was n't so overwhelmed , though , that I forgot to raise a finger to one of the jewels in my headband , as if idly adjusting the band itself . |
| 28 | I retreated to leave the master to it and lay happily in the sun . |
| 29 | I began to see a pattern to these puzzling events , a distinct and disturbing trend . |
| 30 | I began to see the key to this as being the fullness of the Holy Spirit . |