Example sentences of "i [vb base] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 'm working in the theatre , I tend to steer clear of TV dramas , though I have a soft spot for P D James and Ruth Rendell thrillers . |
| 2 | of perhaps my characteristics cos I tend to go in to work at eight o'clock just before I write any more in and I do have to clear everything before I even start the day . |
| 3 | That is a truth I want to re-assert today with confidence and conviction . |
| 4 | I says er , I want to go on as yard foreman next week . |
| 5 | ‘ Pappy , I want to go away to school . |
| 6 | I want to go back to bed . |
| 7 | I want to go out for lunch . ’ |
| 8 | If I have to disappear , I want to do so in comfort . |
| 9 | And I would gain considerable advantage from speeding ; I am tired and I want to get home to bed . |
| 10 | last week and er what I want to get out of course is obviously increased confidence and skill at sort of maintaining the aims of the meeting or the presentation |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I was five months in Brazil and I thought then , if I want to get further into South America I need Spanish . |
| 12 | I want to get there in daylight . ’ |
| 13 | In this chapter , I want to distinguish carefully between marketing ( as a whole ) and advertising , and between the various types of statement of intent . |
| 14 | I hope to play again after Christmas but wo n't be rushing a comeback . |
| 15 | This is in part what I hope to provide here in respect of certain current theoretical perspectives and pedagogic approaches . |
| 16 | The car 's just a practical thing to me , I mean I like to drive around in comfort , everybody likes a nice car , I 'm not saying that , but to go to the extreme of spending what would say , seventy or eighty thousand pounds on a Porsche , I 'd have to be really , really rich before I would consider the luxury of having a Porsche . |
| 17 | I got into bed , and I was really nice and warm , and I was lying back , I do n't really like to lie back when I 'm doing something , I like to sit up in bed , I do n't generally do work in bed . |
| 18 | These days I get to lurk limply on top of her . |
| 19 | It 's when I go to lie down at night you know that 's it . |
| 20 | It 's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me . |
| 21 | I try to keep out of trouble the best I can . |
| 22 | Because I want to get on I try to keep out of trouble . |
| 23 | Then at last he said : ‘ Gentlemen — and ladies , pardon me — I have given much thought to these matters and I wish to say here in confidence to you , that while there remains between myself and many of those present differences of interpretation as to what is really occurring in Europe at this moment , despite this , as to the main points that have been raised in this house , I am convinced , gentlemen , convinced both of their justice and their practicality . ’ |
| 24 | The deeper I get into this the more difficult it becomes , but I know I need to delve deep in order to get to grips with what lies underneath . |
| 25 | Again , there 's been an astonishing neglect , not so much I , I have to point out in fairness , of Totem and Taboo , as we 'll see . |
| 26 | I have to go over to hand in my register now there 's no one here to take charge of it . ’ |
| 27 | I have to go back into hospital before Christmas but then I hope to be at home . |
| 28 | the only one who worked full time , they came on Christmas Eve with reluctant , because I said look I 'm sorry but I have to work Christmas Eve lunch time , and they said right we 'll be there at five past one , and I finish at one , there were there at five past one , they finally left two days after Christmas because I said I 'm sorry I have to go back to work today . |
| 29 | But to this day I have nightmares in which I have to go back to school , and I 'm so relieved to wake up and find that it was only a dream . |
| 30 | ‘ Then I have to stay here in hospital and just wait for this toxaemia thing to develop ? ’ asked Faye anxiously . |