Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fads breed products with a short life-cycle , such as pop records and other leisure items ; fashions tend to develop or reappear over the course of years , and the products which follow them tend to have a relatively long life-cycle . |
| 2 | You 're going to help me make to make a birthday cake for Jim remember . |
| 3 | me want to do a da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da |
| 4 | the departments involved are heavily loaded , and none of them want to contribute a key person for this purpose . |
| 5 | No she , she does n't do a thing I mean to cook a Sunday dinner she does n't know what it is . |
| 6 | Very soon now they will be ready and then I mean to hold a great feast for all my people . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | " I mean to buy a caravan — do they call them " Mobile Homes ' , what an awful name ! — Gigi will love it . " |
| 9 | By sacrifice and submission and by the Grace of God I mean to become a truly serious person , fit to make a new beginning and become a Catholic and a proper wife to you . |
| 10 | If I mean to mind a thing I never mind it |
| 11 | Come , now , I mean to have an answer . ’ |
| 12 | I mean to make a contribution . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 … . ’ |
| 14 | However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint . |
| 15 | From the waist-down I intend to wear a pair of blue jeans with the possible added attraction of whatever I manage to spill down them tonight in the pub . |
| 16 | I intend to use an external power filter . |
| 17 | ‘ What 's more , I intend to hire a live-in nanny to give me a hand and to be there when I ca n't . |
| 18 | ‘ This is my bit of Wharfed ale , ’ each male sang , ‘ and I intend to entice a wife and raise a family — so all you other blokes , keep out . ’ |
| 19 | The course of my life during the period from the end of 1940 until the autumn of 1945 is one of which I intend to write an account ; but this is not the place for it . |
| 20 | ‘ Actually I intend to drop a word in your ear concerning the matter , ’ he said in a voice that now held a grim note . |
| 21 | I intend to have a thoroughly enjoyable and lengthy period without paid work . |
| 22 | Q. I intend to make a venturi to fit into a transfer pipe from one filter to the next , to allow the introduction of air into the system I am currently building . |
| 23 | I intend to make a great deal of money from this if my speculations are correct . ’ |
| 24 | My tank is 6' × 2' × 2' and I intend to keep a selection of Clownfish , Wrasse , Damsels , Tangs and Gobies . |
| 25 | I intend to commission a survey soon to find out more about what the public want from the citizens charter and what their expectations and priorities are in taking forward this work . |
| 26 | I , I hate to contradict a lady but I does Mrs realise that she is voting against the construction of T five if you support my . |
| 27 | Perhaps I should n't interfere but I hate to see a young man throwing his life away . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I hate to see a decent man making a mess of his life . |
| 29 | ‘ I hate to interject a note of boring realism here , ’ Piers said , ‘ but is n't it easy to say that in retrospect ? ’ |
| 30 | I 'm a very new driver so I 'm very careful and very cautious , not a very good pedestrian , I tend to wave a fist and walk out whereas I always give the other person , you know I always sort of wave them on whereon in the car being a very new driver I am very cautious |