Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ Carrie stammered , ‘ she 's just gone to sleep , ’ and Hepzibah nodded and touched her chin lightly and lovingly and said , ‘ I 'd best go to her then , you stay here with Albert . ’ |
| 2 | Anyway , I suppose I 'd better go to the surgery , if I must see him . ’ |
| 3 | tablets are finished , I 'd better go to the doc |
| 4 | " I think I 'd better go to the loo , " she said , then looked at him . |
| 5 | I 'd better go to the embassy to check if anything 's actually happened today . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd better go to bed , ’ said Leonora hastily , moving further away , but he held up his hand . |
| 7 | First I 'd better speak to Tom . |
| 8 | Ah , ah , I just thought I 'd better explain to everyone , sorry . |
| 9 | We can make fear choices , which lead us to cling to the past — ‘ I hate my job , but I wo n't find anything better , so I 'd better stick to it ’ , ‘ I always eat hamburger and chips on Thursdays ’ , ‘ I 'd like to know Chris better , but I 'm sure s/he wo n't be interested in me ’ — or growth choices , in which we reach for the future — ‘ I hate my job , so I 'll start applying for others , even though it feels scary ’ , ‘ Maybe I 'll try spaghetti bolognese tonight ’ , ‘ What have I got to lose ? |
| 10 | Oh man , I 'd better get to California soon , while the transplant people still have something to work on . |
| 11 | I mean if you do n't , think , oh well I 'd I do n't want to be well it 's not the teachers fault cos you do n't get on ! |
| 12 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 13 | To punish me because he can see I do n't want to ? |
| 14 | It 's important but I , I would n't I do n't want to er get carried away with the fact that we 're not performing well because we are performing well . |
| 15 | I do rather object to the sort of chap who farts in public and then says ‘ Better out than in . ’ ’ |
| 16 | The answer is 0.9 recurring , but I do not expect to be awarded great sums of public money for this discovery , which I freely give to the world ; nor do I demand the overthrow of government and its takeover by a gang of lower-class hooligans . |
| 17 | Having said this , let me try to make clear what I do not mean to be claiming in this section , lest I be taken to be arguing for more than I intend to be . |
| 18 | ‘ But I do not mean to ! ’ |
| 19 | I do not mean to be offensive to the hon. Member for Sherwood when I say that he has entertained us with his prepared briefs in many of our coal debates , but that it is a bit rich of him continually to criticise the contraction of the coal industry when he has supported many of his Government 's policies on the industry . |
| 20 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 21 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
| 22 | Mr Winterton added : ‘ I do not want to be bitter or vindictive . |
| 23 | I do not want to be seen as a liability to you . |
| 24 | And I replied , ‘ Anastasiya Pavlovna , you have valued these things wrongly , and I do not want to nor can I take advantage of your ignorance ’ . |
| 25 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
| 26 | I do not want to be misunderstood . |
| 27 | I do not want to be part of some supposedly dominant united states of Europe which , it is argued , would exert a similar influence to the United States of America and the now defunct USSR in world affairs . |
| 28 | I do not want to be predictable , because the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) does not like people to be predictable . |
| 29 | No it 's not going on loud Charlotte , I do not want to be deafened by Michael Jackson thank you , I think that 's quite loud enough |
| 30 | You can imagine my annoyance , then , that a ) there are no fiscal financial incentives whatsoever to encourage more people to cycle , and b ) that my health has to suffer from car-induced pollution although I do not contribute to it myself . |