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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Many of them appear to have been angered and disappointed at the church 's suppression of the proposed scheme .
2	All I intend to do is make sure that the story becomes public before Lewis can get it into print . ’
3	Drawn this little character and what I intend to do is put this into acid and etch it .
4	All I intend to do is rob them of their chief copywriter . ’
5	All I got to do is turn the key .
6	But what I say to do is buy a new chiller and get it on and then all Summer we 'll get this damn problem again .
7	Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time .
8	I I what I want to do is make , if people going into selling advertising for the first time and most people are let's face it
9	‘ I mean , do n't let the fact I 'm the longest serving flat-dweller put you off ; the last thing I want to do is embarrass you , Gav , ’ I said ( just a tad tetchily ) .
10	So what I want to do is to go back over what I was talking about last week but with a different emphasis .
11	I do n't want to go to the bank but what I want to do is to go to erm
12	The last thing I want to do is break the spell .
13	‘ The last thing I want to do is break up your friendship . ’
14	Er and basically what I want to do is to put the winner , the winning e exhibition into the new reception area , for the new erm office at Ruddington when it opens .
15	‘ All I want to do is to do what I 'm doing , but do it better . ’
16	All I want to do is finish the London under 4:20 , perhaps with some help from your magazine .
17	Almost as though explaining the normal techniques to a med student , he said patiently , ‘ You know , Laddie , that what I want to do is restore the affected joint to its proper position of function . ’
18	Arrest and imprisonment would be the ultimate and tragic irony for Rod Jones , a man whose aims in Romania are simple : ‘ All I want to do is give the children a second chance . ’
19	The last thing I want to do is talk .
20	What I want to do is to take all the best elements , like live strings , and recreate them . ’
21	All I want to do is go through a few aspects of your statement , to make sure I 've got them right . ’
22	I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to .
23	‘ Now what I want to do is go through the blocking today , so that Micky and George can start to feel the shape of the production .
24	Said Davenport : ‘ All I want to do is hold down a place in the side .
25	All I want to do is collect our stuff from the flat and head for the airport . ’
26	All I want to do is sit and cry .
27	The last thing that I want to do is stray out of order .
28	The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato .
29	Therefore what I want to do is to seek the support of the factories to er spread the word , to circulate the information necessary to all the schools in the area .
30	‘ No , Dad , what I want to do is to fuck . ’ ’