Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I intend to do is make sure that the story becomes public before Lewis can get it into print . ’ |
| 2 | Drawn this little character and what I intend to do is put this into acid and etch it . |
| 3 | All I intend to do is rob them of their chief copywriter . ’ |
| 4 | All I got to do is turn the key . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 9 | So what I want to do is to go back over what I was talking about last week but with a different emphasis . |
| 10 | I do n't want to go to the bank but what I want to do is to go to erm |
| 11 | The last thing I want to do is break the spell . |
| 12 | ‘ The last thing I want to do is break up your friendship . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ All I want to do is to do what I 'm doing , but do it better . ’ |
| 15 | All I want to do is finish the London under 4:20 , perhaps with some help from your magazine . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | The last thing I want to do is talk . |
| 19 | What I want to do is to take all the best elements , like live strings , and recreate them . ’ |
| 20 | All I want to do is go through a few aspects of your statement , to make sure I 've got them right . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Said Davenport : ‘ All I want to do is hold down a place in the side . |
| 24 | All I want to do is collect our stuff from the flat and head for the airport . ’ |
| 25 | All I want to do is sit and cry . |
| 26 | The last thing that I want to do is stray out of order . |
| 27 | The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ No , Dad , what I want to do is to fuck . ’ ’ |
| 30 | ‘ All I want to do is get to the bottom of this , ’ she assured me as we entered her office . |