Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate to see it like that . ’ |
| 2 | I hate to burden you with this . |
| 3 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 4 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to thank you for all you did for Mam . |
| 6 | You do n't yet give us money , although I hope may , one day you will be persuaded to do so , but you have given us time , and particularly in the person of your colleague Sandra who is here , and her time to us has been enormously valuable and I want to thank you for that . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |
| 8 | I want to ask her about this issue . |
| 9 | Now I wan I want to ask you about that . |
| 10 | On the last point that Les makes , I want to ensure him about this ; that when Horton run that boat business , that was a water-based business , it ran on the basis there were floats in the river and you stepped on to the float and you got onto a boat . |
| 11 | I 'm glad you called , " Lorne went on weirdly , " because I want to tell you about another new idea I 've gotten . |
| 12 | Now I said Mr Nichol I 'd to take you to that erm but the only thing is it 's after the so I do n't know how you feel if you 'd if you would rather see a performance before the exam , or you would rather see that one after the exam , or two . |
| 13 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 14 | I hope to initiate you into this important part of life … to teach you about such things . ’ |
| 15 | You know you wrote that letter and it said oh , I hope to see you in half term and then , then said I hope not |
| 16 | And about this too I hope to help you during this course . |
| 17 | Perceiving on a re-perusal of one of Mr Prince 's letters that you are all feeling apprehensions of our being in danger from the natives , I hasten to relieve you from that alarm . |
| 18 | Since all had been well before Kirsty went into hospital to have her appendix removed — and since many people have a very real terror of hospitals in general — I decided to regress her to that particular time . |
| 19 | Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day . |
| 20 | ‘ And , being the modern-day equivalent of Casanova , I decide to add you to this impressive circle of conquests ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I meant to tell you about that . |
| 22 | I managed to dissuade her from that and we settled on lunch together the following day . |
| 23 | Rachel has started packing up to leave , and I try to divert her with more coffee . |
| 24 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 25 | aha , well I 'm , I 'm doing er couple of Oxos and I had to thicken it with some self raising flour , it was alright |
| 26 | Mm , mm I 'd of put them in the , even with these new glasses I these dark ones , you know the dark ones I had to put them on this morning I had to put these dark glasses on cos the light hurt me eyes , so I had to put these on |
| 27 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 28 | It was such a collective experience that John was n't mine any more , I had to share him with all these people , each with different motivations and reasons for being here . |
| 29 | I knew I had to bring it to some kind of confession , but saying , ‘ I love you , ’ to a woman who loved another man ? |
| 30 | Oh , and he asked if I 'd ever seen Angy having any kind of disagreement with anyone and I had to tell him about that little contretemps with Mr Willard and young Godfrey Mellish . ’ |