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Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face .
2	Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas .
3	‘ There is a big future for this club , and I intend to put it on the right footing .
4	I intend to do it in a proper English accent ( You can do it ) .
5	‘ I intend to introduce him to the Führer at that meeting , General .
6	We will take coffee at once and then I intend to show her over the house .
7	‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop .
8	It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty .
9	‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’
10	I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm only going on the fact that I I tend to do everything on the cheap so I tend to get if I can find somebody who does photocopying I can do it then we 'll do it .
11	I tend to keep them in the originals cos then I if I need to .
12	Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending .
13	Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay
14	And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive !
15	I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me .
16	Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light .
17	One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck .
18	I hit violently at the door , I tried to force it with the nail , and managed to hurt my hand .
19	‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose .
20	I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't .
21	I tried to phone you during the week and mum said where is my little son ?
22	I tried to picture him under the sheet .
23	I knew Ellen hated the cold , and I tried to warn her of the conditions we might expect in those latitudes .
24	I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls .
25	I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen .
26	‘ I tried to tell her in a matter-of-fact way that when you die you leave your body behind and go to Heaven .
27	I shall certainly do what I can to advance the matter , but I hesitate to say what about the paper , because I do n't think it is an easy thing to cover in a paper .
28	I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall .
29	It would have been a richer joy — but , indeed , as I so often tell you , I delight to picture you in a childlike serenity .
30	And I want to remind you of the history of when amalgamations take place , because a number of people have touched on that very point this morning .