Example sentences of "i [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean to live in England and be a Master of Hounds , not a rotten little king of a rotten little country . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean to go to Italy one day , as my brother has done , ’ she told me , when I discovered her on a stone bench in the garden , reading a book . |
| 3 | much do you want on that if you see what I mean to describe about dreams that |
| 4 | I mean to get to Beckenham that way it takes . |
| 5 | At dusk the H.50 's captain , Lieutenant-Commander Mervyn Wingfield , signalled the Worcester 's captain , Lieutenant-Commander Ian Maitland-Magill-Crichton , ‘ In the event of enemy attack I intend to remain on surface . ’ |
| 6 | Ca n't be certain , but it looks as if Allied Signal Corp chief executive Lawrence Bossidy has ruled himself out of the running for the top job at IBM Corp : he says that although he is ‘ flattered to be mentioned as a candidate for chairman of another company , I intend to remain at Allied-Signal to complete the job I came here to do . ’ |
| 7 | Madam Speaker , this is a job summit and I intend to talk about jobs . |
| 8 | ‘ However , I intend to stay with Marguerite . |
| 9 | ‘ I intend to stay in control — and I will make my own decisions all the way . ’ |
| 10 | Which does n't mean I intend to leap into bed with you just because fate washed you up on my beach . |
| 11 | I intend to concentrate on provision for the 18 per cent unstatemented pupils who remain in mainstream schools but who , as Warnock reminded us , have special needs . |
| 12 | As I say I think I 'll sum up and have a vote , and then I intend to break for lunch on conclusion of this item . |
| 13 | The compassion I intend to show to Miller marks an important turning point in my own personal history . |
| 14 | I hate to listen to guitarists rattle off rubbish about ‘ the only thing that matters is the story of the song ’ because that 's just a bunch of crap ! |
| 15 | I would say I tend to listen to Peter Gabriel more . |
| 16 | Have a look at the introd the erm I find is a bit sort of sleepy , I tend to go to sleep , but the and quite got nice big pictures and interesting stories . |
| 17 | Its use is very simple — you tell the manager which cells hold the values you want to change , and they 're added to the scenario , which you name ( I tend to go for Disaster , Real and Brill — all self explanatory ) . |
| 18 | I tend to agree with Tims sentiments about Deane . |
| 19 | ‘ I tend to agree with Fred , ’ he replied . |
| 20 | In photography , I tend to work with clients who 've heard me talk or seen my work , so they know my agenda . |
| 21 | I work in pastels quite a lot , but I tend to work in colour all the time rather than pencil or charcoal . |
| 22 | I tend to eat through boredom , and all the wrong things . |
| 23 | I 've never walked the whole 72-mile coast path in one go as I tend to head to Dorset at weekends and just explore different areas on day walks . |
| 24 | I tend to think of Basil still driving around the West Riding in his black Morris Minor , but in fact on a most memorable trip to Scotland , buying work for the West Riding schools , he already had a grey station-wagon . |
| 25 | What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … . |
| 26 | If possible we must spend that time at Coate [ where Edward then was ] , and now I long to go to Horsmonden , for every place where you have lived and been happy , is to me dearer than any others . |
| 27 | Whenever I am in Barcelona I expect to run into Jordi , even today , thirty years later , in a totally different , freer , happier Spain . |
| 28 | I propose to go to Durham , or anywhere else I choose , by myself . ’ |
| 29 | I want to fall in love , she thought , looking away from him with helpless distaste . |
| 30 | I want to apologise to Sophie . ’ |