Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The very thought of it makes me want to press the panic button , crawl under the bed and call for HRT , ’ says one friend . |
| 2 | ‘ The very thought of reaching 50 makes me want to press the panic button , crawl under the bed and call for HRT ’ |
| 3 | I do n't know how they 've done it but the typography on the signs makes me want to pronounce the word Edin-burg , and I live in the place , for God 's sake . |
| 4 | But his own political outlook was also vital : ‘ Those influences made me want to write a history of the game 's toilers , the hired labourers . |
| 5 | I am a great fan of rave music yet the lyrics have never made me want to try the drug . |
| 6 | It just makes me want to vomit the way she does that . |
| 7 | A few weeks before I could n't have found Madeira on a map — now what I saw made me vow to return every year . |
| 8 | ‘ Me struggling to prove a point when all the time you 've decided , made up your mind . ’ |
| 9 | You 're going to help me make to make a birthday cake for Jim remember . |
| 10 | me want to do a da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da |
| 11 | ‘ He just asked how you were , made me promise to keep an eye on you , then rang off , ’ she said , frowning . |
| 12 | It is quite enough for me to try to grasp the way in which God has disclosed himself to us . |
| 13 | He also urged me to try to check the identification of the plant . |
| 14 | Lisa 's letter inspired me to try to write a verse on the subject ( not very good , but here it is ) |
| 15 | But they 've done a tabloid internally and they 've asked me to come to take a look at it . |
| 16 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 17 | I asked to pass the time until the tea cooled . |
| 18 | Why on earth would I want to do a thing like that ? ’ |
| 19 | Whenever I visit Ian , seeing the fostering going on in various degrees , I 'm filled with admiration and feel I want to let the world know . |
| 20 | That 's why I thought , when I come back the next time and you 're upset I said oh no way do I want to upset a woman like that . |
| 21 | come come round I want to I 'll I want to see the product . |
| 22 | Do I want to follow a set exercise programme or would I prefer to change my life-style so that I become more active ? |
| 23 | Not only do I want to know the story but I want to know the whys and wherefores . |
| 24 | Do I want to make a will |
| 25 | Well he said they 'd been round with a helicopter , a plane taking photos of the houses , did I want to buy a photo of me house , twenty pound . |
| 26 | It 's asking do I want to keep a hold on one of these two , and if so , which ? |
| 27 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 28 | After downloading the umpteenth version of one program , loading and reloading assembling and EEPROMming software , I chanced to query the need for using the EEPROM programmer . |
| 29 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
| 30 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |