Example sentences of "i [vb base] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very soon now they will be ready and then I mean to hold a great feast for all my people . |
| 2 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 3 | ‘ As soon as my work here is finished ’ , he wrote to Constanze , ‘ I shall join you , for I intend to take a long rest in your arms ; and I shall really need it , for all this mental worry and all the rushing about in connection with it is really wearing me out … . ’ |
| 4 | However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint . |
| 5 | I intend to use an external power filter . |
| 6 | I intend to make a great deal of money from this if my speculations are correct . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps I should n't interfere but I hate to see a young man throwing his life away . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I hate to see a decent man making a mess of his life . |
| 9 | Usually when designing pictures I tend to use a particular leaf or flower because of its shape , colour or texture , and pay no attention to its species or variety . |
| 10 | I tend to live a normal life . |
| 11 | I tend to keep a tight rein at first , and gradually relax as I get to know them . |
| 12 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 13 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 14 | I propose to introduce a novel element into the debate by speaking about the Bill . |
| 15 | What I want to spend a few minutes on again this is something we 'll test tomorrow , right so I 'm giving you , training 's all about doing what do you think ? |
| 16 | But also I want to stop a bad thing . ’ |
| 17 | Now I want to lose a few pounds , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 19 | I want to support an idealistic publication |
| 20 | And if I want to wear a nice pair of Clarks ' grey espadrilles so then I will wear them . |
| 21 | In this section I want to compare a Marxian approach to growth — based upon Bukharin 's equations — with that of Harrod . |
| 22 | I want to see a mighty flood of justice — a torrent of doing good . ’ |
| 23 | I want to see a little bit of life . ’ |
| 24 | He told a Westminster press lunch : ‘ I want to see a Conservative government returned at the next general election under Margaret Thatcher 's leadership . ’ |
| 25 | I want to see a curricular framework which is flexible enough to permit sensible modifications and , where necessary , exemptions to be made in the interests of individual children with special needs . |
| 26 | I want to reach a larger audience : I 've already made five records on indies , so maybe it 's time to move on , but some younger bands are gon na find themselves pushed into the limelight when they 're not ready . |
| 27 | Sometimes when I , I write a poem I want to create a particular mood erm giving the piece erm a shape , a , a definite shape or just a shadowy shape erm and the overcoat in er Bon Jour Monsieur Gaugin , I found very , very expressive and the starting point for , for this particular poem I 'll hand this round to you know , with the name of the , the front , right I do n't , has anybody , if you already know this picture , does anybody actually know it already ? , no I start with the overcoat obviously erm very expressive , not just because it was , people wear over , overcoats in cold days , but it was the size of the coat and the shape of it and , and it gave me a weight , I felt , er I felt a very definite mood erm about this picture because of the coat and it was a , er a ejective mood that I , that I felt from that , and the stick in the erm hands of the women over the bridge gave me the sound for , for this poem would you like me to read as the , the thing being passed around , would that be ok ? |
| 28 | ‘ I am not satisfied with my works to date , and from now on I want to take a new path ’ , so Beethoven allegedly confessed not long before embarking on the three sonatas of Op. 31 , here introduced into the CD catalogue as a set played on a fortepiano ( by Derek Adlam after Anton Walter , Vienna ; Nannette Streicher , Vienna 1815 ) . |
| 29 | I want to acknowledge a personal debt to him . |
| 30 | Er , and I want to talk a little bit about er finance and I , I 've got to recognise to start with that not all money is controllable at the site level . |