Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to issue a challenge to Michael Fallon : will he explain why he believes people in Darlington should earn less than £3.40 a hour when as a government minister he earned £1,000 a week . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I want to see an end to those days ’ , Farr-Jones adds . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course not , but the police are interested in those keys too and I want to put a stop to Shildon searching my property . ’ |
| 4 | I want to put an end to every consequence of Maurice 's scheme . |
| 5 | I want to send a telex to Alex Raneleigh in Brussels . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | I want to propose a toast to an absent — and sorely missed — friend . |
| 8 | ‘ Rose , ’ she said , ‘ I want to write a letter to my daughter , my daughter in Germany . |
| 9 | I want to make a call to … |
| 10 | ‘ You know very well that I want to make an offer to your son . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to pay a visit to the museum . |
| 12 | I stop to give a lift to two young warriors who are fully made up in ochre topped by head-dresses . |
| 13 | I was n't so overwhelmed , though , that I forgot to raise a finger to one of the jewels in my headband , as if idly adjusting the band itself . |
| 14 | I began to see a pattern to these puzzling events , a distinct and disturbing trend . |
| 15 | That is why I continue to seek an outcome to the negotiations which is fair for British farmers and encourages , not discourages , efficiency . |
| 16 | It was a relief to be in the open air again but , lacking a street-rap , I decided to take a taxi to the riverside and find my way about from there . |
| 17 | Next morning , 19th July , all is quiet , and after breakfast I decided to pay a visit to the other Commando units ; 4 Commando and 3 Commando , lots of new faces , not many of those who landed on the 6th June are left . |
| 18 | I knew to leave the door open , as I knew to clear a path to the kitchen door , while the chairs were still hand-stripped pine to me . |
| 19 | It was down to the practice ground in the gloom for Jack and myself but I managed to get a message to Sally to meet me an hour later than planned . |
| 20 | Klaus Mann wrote , ‘ I try to give a name to my longing , to name my inheritance and my duty . |
| 21 | The words tumbled over each other in her eagerness. ‘ 'T WOULD only be for a day or so while I try to get a message to the Queen . |
| 22 | I aim to get a bus to Heathrow , then circle south from there along the M25 . |
| 23 | ‘ I had to put a stop to it , ’ he told Mexican television . |
| 24 | Before my marriage , I had to arrange a visit to the mikva . |
| 25 | ‘ I had to take a message to these ’ — she almost said gentlemen — ‘ to Mrs Felton about her youngest son ; he 's in hospital . ’ |
| 26 | And if I had to choose a companion to be with me down the years I would take you as a pattern . ’ |
| 27 | But the niece was very bitter about it — I had to write a letter to her solicitors a year or so later because she 'd been bothering Angela long after the estate was settled . ’ |
| 28 | I had to get an ambulance to her . |
| 29 | Having reconciled myself to the situation , I felt I had to make a gift to Leslie of my acceptance . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |