Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's one of the CIA 's most closely guarded secrets and I intend to keep it that way . |
| 2 | I 'm now my own man , and I intend to keep it that way . ’ |
| 3 | I tried to telephone her this morning at the flat but there was no reply . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to telephone you this morning — ’ he said . |
| 5 | I tried to call you this week-end . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried to call you this morning , ’ she said , ‘ but you 'd already left . ’ |
| 7 | I tried to get it last night . |
| 8 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |
| 9 | I tried to contact you this afternoon but was unable to get through . |
| 10 | ‘ I do not propose to argue with you , I propose to give you sixteen shillings and a halfpenny . |
| 11 | I phoned to invite you this morning , Guido , but of course you were n't there . ’ |
| 12 | Of more concern is the way Barnes has failed to silence his critics with his feet since his poor display and when asked if he will win his 69th cap next week , Taylor said simply : ‘ I want to give it some thought . ’ |
| 13 | I want to give you good answers to your questions . ’ |
| 14 | and say to him so and so and so and so he 'd always answer back and say I want to do it this way |
| 15 | And again , long moments later , he added the qualification : ‘ Though I want to tell you one thing — I know very little about them . ’ |
| 16 | Some of the horror stories that I hear are horrendous , but I want to tell you three issues that I do actually know about . |
| 17 | What I want to show you this afternoon , is that the power of the child 's imagination is a factory which we have but to encourage , not to teach . |
| 18 | ‘ But I told you when I came to see you that day . |
| 19 | I say I am bored , and that I hope to see him that evening . |
| 20 | ‘ I forgot to give you this back . ’ |
| 21 | And I like to keep it that way still if I can , because you can make yourself a lot of work over some small incident sometimes . |
| 22 | I decided to do it this morning . |
| 23 | A year later and once more Mistral -driven , I decided to give it another try . |
| 24 | I decided to offer him some food . |
| 25 | ‘ Yesterday probably because the photos were n't in the house when I called to see him last night . |
| 26 | Oh yes , I meant to ring you last night , but things |
| 27 | I try to leave it one day , a believe me , it 's no more than you 'd die , like . |
| 28 | Everything goes as planned and I soon bully him into the landing net , and from there the hook is removed and he is slid into my big , knotless keepnet , where he can lie safe and recover while I try to catch him some company . |
| 29 | ‘ I went to see her this morning like you said . |
| 30 | ‘ I went to see him one evening and asked to borrow it . ’ |