Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] an [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to see an end to those days ’ , Farr-Jones adds . |
| 2 | I want to put an end to every consequence of Maurice 's scheme . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | ‘ You know very well that I want to make an offer to your son . |
| 5 | I reported last time that I 'd made an approach to Chris . |
| 6 | That is why I continue to seek an outcome to the negotiations which is fair for British farmers and encourages , not discourages , efficiency . |
| 7 | I declined an invitation to have him fill a tooth , because I felt that I should never be able to afford the fee ; but I did accept an offer to be shown by Vivien round Oxford ( or ‘ Hoxford ’ as Mrs Webster called it , with that superfluous Beds. and Bucks . |
| 8 | Of course there were friends whom I could have asked , but I had seen an opportunity to be stubborn and had dismissed each of her suggested candidates with tiresome and irrelevant objections — too fat , too blonde , too tall , too many teeth . |
| 9 | I had to get an ambulance to her . |
| 10 | The connection between enjoyment and a spontaneous welcoming of awareness is logically necessary , for it would be contradictory to say ‘ I intensely enjoyed the sensation , but I had to make an effort to be much aware of it . ’ |
| 11 | I suspect that if I had to find an alternative to what we 've already proposed and what we 've constantly supported , I would actually go right back to the , I would actually go right back to the beginning erm because it would be cleaner and it would be clearer . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't ever have been so intimate with you if I had had an obligation to someone else . |
| 13 | I 'm not going to leave you with statistics , they do n't get me any longer , I 've developed an immunity to statistics , thank God . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've made an offer to the club to pay for a player on loan myself , ’ said Shilton . |
| 15 | I 've got an introduction to the wholesale market . |
| 16 | On behalf of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I wish to register an objection to the application for an entertainment licence for music , dancing and singing at the Priory Restaurant , Scorton . |
| 17 | I have made an escape to be more a prisoner . |
| 18 | Shilton had said earlier : ‘ I have made an offer to the club to pay for a player on loan myself to cover our injuries in the short term . |
| 19 | Chairman I think I have to offer an apology to members and Mr in particular and the town of Bungay with a rather erm over which sentence expressing the press release , I mean we are continually trying to issue news items , press releases , progress reports and anything we 're doing and usually the press are very good and quoted for a basis , sometimes they get it wrong and mangle it up with some bits of disaster , on this occasion that is not the case , the , the actual press report did determine the phraseology used in my in lease them so I have to accept the responsibility for the phrase to act of your recommended this morning so it down sake , could abandon ideas which they can buy it , of course those crazy ideas used in and out of the court is what matters . |