Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of time , I intend to concentrate on the European dimension . |
| 2 | I intend to concentrate on the two subjects of today 's debate , education and employment . |
| 3 | Well I tend to move in the same fleet . |
| 4 | How I tend to start with the boring bits like the sky and then reward myself later with an interesting part like a face or a patch of white . |
| 5 | Look , seriously , do I need to get on the next train back to Liverpool Street and go and find her ? ’ |
| 6 | Above all I would like to thank the sector for your friendship and warm support , and I have every confidence that Sir Jeffrey , my successor , I assume that resolution two will go through unan , unanimously , will be car , will be able to carry forward with your warm support , the vision I tried to outline for the next year . |
| 7 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 8 | I tried to shout like the two of them , but my cry came out strangled and distorted ; I just could n't express my anger in English . |
| 9 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 10 | The state-centrist approach leads to empirical enlightenment , as I tried to show in the previous chapter , but at the expense of some theoretical confusion . |
| 11 | As we were walking to the next hole I tried to think of the right things to say to him , so I said , ‘ Greg , do me a favour . |
| 12 | I tried to think of the worst thing that Quigley had done . |
| 13 | That is the only nice thing that I propose to say about the hon. Gentleman . |
| 14 | ‘ Sometimes I forget to put in the right things . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , Mummy , I promised to go to the common and play rounders with Ann and Ruth . ’ |
| 16 | I want to refer to the third Sessional Order , Mr. Speaker , dealing with access — the last one to which you referred . |
| 17 | What I want to explore in the next chapter , then , is the question of the cultural boundaries between different subjects . |
| 18 | Heinzer , the Mister Nice of the Swiss Team , exploiting an avowed intent to turn Mister Ugly — ‘ I want to go for the big wins ’ — won the first race . |
| 19 | and one day she said , Now then John I want to go to the other school to Mr , the schoolmaster to get a book . |
| 20 | I want to go to the fair . ’ |
| 21 | I tell you , after a long life of many escapes , many dramas which might have been tragedies , what I want and would value most is to be free to choose as much of my life as is given to me — to live it by my own lights , Mary , to do , insofar as God wills it , what I want to do to the very hilt and limit . ’ |
| 22 | I want to put to the hon. Member for Sedgefield some important and fundamental questions relating to his party 's attitude to training and I hope that he will do the House the honour of answering them . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to return to the nice friendly atmosphere we used to have at this club with Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison in charge and chairman Albert Alexander , who left everyone to get on with their job . |
| 24 | Erm now what I want to say at the very very end is a quick observation by Beatrix Campbell who wrote a book about the Cleveland er child sex abuse scandal which took place in the late 1980's . |
| 25 | The particular case which I want to develop in the next chapter is that those strategies that involve sustained denial of or inattention to personal ideas , values , philosophy and vision , are bad strategies . |
| 26 | I want to retreat to the opposite end of the room . |
| 27 | ‘ I want to ride over the next big bore at Stonebench . ’ |
| 28 | I want to hear from the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East , because the Opposition must now come clean . |
| 29 | I want to play in the first competition match and then make sure of my place in the NSW team . |
| 30 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |