Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How and why sport assumes the status of a central life interest for black kids are the questions I set out to answer in chapter eight . |
| 2 | We must create our own , which is what I set out to achieve with Passion . |
| 3 | I try not to drink at lunchtime . " |
| 4 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 5 | ‘ I prefer not to show in charity , ’ she instructed Moira ‘ as not acceptable to my principles ( excuse for people to drink champagne etc and the needy get what 's left ) . ’ |
| 6 | Similarly , in Jefferson v Cape Insulation Ltd ( 3 December 1981 ) Farquharson J awarded substantial damages to a woman who knew she must soon die of mesothelioma for her evident distress in being parted from her family : per Farquharson J : I have also to bear in mind … that the major misery this woman is going to sustain is not the pain , serious and terrible as that is , but the prospect which must be continually in her mind of being parted from her family , and particularly her youngest child . |