Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 2 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |
| 3 | I mean to compare with an elephant dropping , it 's small . |
| 4 | I mean to start as a group home , well I mean it , of all the places , A it 's not like an ordinary home |
| 5 | I do n't have time to play but , I mean to play in a concert band or anything but I might go and knock about with it for a while . |
| 6 | One week I failed to turn in an essay on the trade deficit . |
| 7 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 8 | ‘ I hate to sound like a detective , but there was a puddle outside the front gate and only one new set of tyre-marks between the Saturday night and the Sunday night . |
| 9 | I use it normally on a clean setting , but if I want distortion I tend to go through a BOSS Turbo Overdrive pedal and then into the Rock Box . |
| 10 | No , I tend to break into a crate of Nettles Old Fester . |
| 11 | The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years |
| 12 | Will I need to invest in a Nitragon filter ? |
| 13 | Do I need to go to a lawyer ? |
| 14 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 15 | This seemed to me to be a pretty fair definition of hell , but I tried to look like a man who enjoyed such occasions . |
| 16 | I tried to apply for a credit card , but they refused me . |
| 17 | For my own purposes , I propose to treat as a way of life argument any claim that a particular policy decision would have significant consequences for the demographic , economic or social life of a community , or that it would significantly affect the atmosphere or symbolic existence of that community . |
| 18 | Talking straight to the hard-core men , he said , ‘ I want to apologise as an Englishmen for the way I have lived as a white man . |
| 19 | The central question I want to use as a peg on which to hang various theories is , ‘ Why are so few Christians aware of the direct threat of modernity to the Christian church ? ’ |
| 20 | I 'M getting married in less than two months and I want to lose about a stone before then to get in shape for the big day . |
| 21 | I wan , I want to la , I want to live for a bit longer . |
| 22 | That 's probably why I want to go for a dump now . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to go to a party and Mum wo n't let me . |
| 24 | Well now , I want to talk to a guy . |
| 25 | He said , ‘ I want to talk about a donation you made to Sinn Fein . |
| 26 | Erm , there is a very small chance that he 's going to say , all the time that I was on , on top of Everest , er , I was thinking about you , because I 've heard you 're the best thing since sliced wholemeal bread , I have three thousand people that I want to put through a programme in the next six weeks . |
| 27 | I want to push for a win if I can . ’ |
| 28 | Harrison , I want to come to a stop on their starboard beam . |
| 29 | With my form filled in , I phoned : ‘ I want to come for a fortnight , but the problem is , I have a book to finish . |
| 30 | ‘ I like it here and I want to stay for a while . ’ |