Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you like me to try to get in touch with her ? ’ |
| 2 | So why do I want to fall in love again ? |
| 3 | When do n't I want to go to bed with her ? |
| 4 | But we still got the threat : I 'd be summonsed , and no way did I want to go to court . |
| 5 | At dusk the H.50 's captain , Lieutenant-Commander Mervyn Wingfield , signalled the Worcester 's captain , Lieutenant-Commander Ian Maitland-Magill-Crichton , ‘ In the event of enemy attack I intend to remain on surface . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ However , I intend to stay with Marguerite . |
| 7 | ‘ I intend to stay in control — and I will make my own decisions all the way . ’ |
| 8 | Which does n't mean I intend to leap into bed with you just because fate washed you up on my beach . |
| 9 | I intend to concentrate on provision for the 18 per cent unstatemented pupils who remain in mainstream schools but who , as Warnock reminded us , have special needs . |
| 10 | As I say I think I 'll sum up and have a vote , and then I intend to break for lunch on conclusion of this item . |
| 11 | But the contract I agreed to sign on behalf of Jean-Claude was a very different one from the one M. Chaillot had intended me to sign . |
| 12 | When I married my wife Mary , however , I planned to stay at home for a while . |
| 13 | ‘ At first I planned to stay in hospital with Jessica , but this has been so much better . |
| 14 | But I got to carry on walking , cos I do n't have no card . |
| 15 | I got to nip round Bet 's . |
| 16 | I expected to look like shit but this was ridiculous . |
| 17 | Have a look at the introd the erm I find is a bit sort of sleepy , I tend to go to sleep , but the and quite got nice big pictures and interesting stories . |
| 18 | Its use is very simple — you tell the manager which cells hold the values you want to change , and they 're added to the scenario , which you name ( I tend to go for Disaster , Real and Brill — all self explanatory ) . |
| 19 | I work in pastels quite a lot , but I tend to work in colour all the time rather than pencil or charcoal . |
| 20 | I tend to eat through boredom , and all the wrong things . |
| 21 | Yeah , another element , but what did , what did I need to know about Host ? |
| 22 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 23 | So in the end I went upstairs , left Tony to it and I came back down and I tried to go to sleep again , I put me coat over me head and I could n't sleep so I moved . |
| 24 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 25 | I only remembered it when I leaned forward or when I tried to sleep at night . |
| 26 | I tried to show in chapter 4 that such events may have happened , on a geological time scale , very quickly indeed . |
| 27 | It gave me , I confess to you frankly , many hours of quiet grief , which I tried to bear with philosophy . |
| 28 | Each time I pretended to go to sleep again and went crazy after a few minutes . |
| 29 | I want to fall in love , she thought , looking away from him with helpless distaste . |
| 30 | I want to die in peace . |