Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After spending 300 hours a week in the studio , the last thing I want to listen to when I come home is heavy techno . |
| 2 | Then the show ended and we had to return to America and I thought that was that — good friends , really talented , I 'd grown to really like David 's music . |
| 3 | If I 'd wanted to really zoom around the fretboard I would 've opted for a medium/short-scale bass with really light , roundwound strings . |
| 4 | ‘ Now I hope to talk to more senior players who are available on free transfers . |
| 5 | Then I saw that a D. Mus. degree required the composition of a fugue in eight parts , and when I wrote a Concerto for string orchestra I felt compelled to better this with a ten-part contrapuntal episode . |
| 6 | This seems to me a very sound argument ; though I do wonder to how many cases of literary mistake it actually applies . |
| 7 | That er that line I think went to just er a bit further up and erm er I say not an any matter of er another couple of hundred yards I think before there was only a single track . |
| 8 | Which I think come to about eight nine hundred pound . |
| 9 | I groped for Toby in the dark and found his hands , and they held on to me , and I shouted again to an unknown listener as I had wanted to in the street : " I do n't want this ! |
| 10 | if he did I had to write to out for him . |
| 11 | By that time , I had listened to so many commercials , and studied their language in such detail , that I was tired of the whole subject . |
| 12 | It is something that the government needs to look at and indeed it goes hand in hand er with the need to overall the whole regulatory system er which is something that I 've referred to often enough before er and I have no hesitation in repeating it again . |
| 13 | I 've had to actually drag it out of you . |
| 14 | Well I know everybody er I 've spoken to really thought |
| 15 | I 've spoken to quite a few small businessmen who have been affected in the same way . |
| 16 | I can put fax stuff to Tracey and have it back the next day , but I 've got to physically fetch it , that is the only disadvantage or arrange to get it picked up . |
| 17 | Well I 've got to somehow . |
| 18 | Now though I 've got to just get on with the rest of my life |
| 19 | I 've got to absolutely love the work then I can try to male others see why . |
| 20 | and I 've got to there and then to there and |
| 21 | I 've got to bloody ! |
| 22 | so I have Sally , and , and er , her mum always cooks a meal in the evening so I , I do something like toasted cheese sandwiches or beans on toast or something like that at lunch time , but there was one time when she wanted peanut butter and , all her brother used to ask , I , her brother does n't come to me now , he stays at home cos he 's going on fifteen , and as he 's next door but one anyway , you know if , if anything goes wrong he can come along to me , but all he wanted was my homemade blackcurrant jam , and now he does n't come any more I 've got to actually give him |
| 23 | ‘ To be honest , I could n't even say when I 'm going to be back but I 've got to realistically think I wo n't make it for the European Cup . ’ |
| 24 | I ca n't remember where I 've got to now . |
| 25 | I 've got to out tonight , as I said . |
| 26 | Go on , I put that in on Wednesday and I 've got to about a quarter of a tank again . |
| 27 | Please excuse me — I 'm off for a refill ’ , ‘ I 'm enjoying our chat , but I 've just seen someone whom I need to speak to urgently . ’ |
| 28 | According to Goodwin , whose work I have referred to already , this difference has linguistic correlates . |
| 29 | When a draft schedule has been produced the next stage is what I have referred to previously as ‘ internal testing ’ . |
| 30 | This I have referred to elsewhere as ‘ ideational ’ ( Widdowson 1983 ) . |