Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ What 's more , I intend to hire a live-in nanny to give me a hand and to be there when I ca n't . |
| 32 | ‘ This is my bit of Wharfed ale , ’ each male sang , ‘ and I intend to entice a wife and raise a family — so all you other blokes , keep out . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ Actually I intend to drop a word in your ear concerning the matter , ’ he said in a voice that now held a grim note . |
| 34 | Q. I intend to make a venturi to fit into a transfer pipe from one filter to the next , to allow the introduction of air into the system I am currently building . |
| 35 | My tank is 6' × 2' × 2' and I intend to keep a selection of Clownfish , Wrasse , Damsels , Tangs and Gobies . |
| 36 | I intend to commission a survey soon to find out more about what the public want from the citizens charter and what their expectations and priorities are in taking forward this work . |
| 37 | The report that I commissioned to get a debate going on why some schools were failing was commissioned from three people whose expertise has not been challenged and nor , as far as I know , have most of their conclusions . |
| 38 | Yet somehow Edward must be appeased , so I sought to make a virtue of my ignorance , asking questions that would allow him to air his greater experience . |
| 39 | Personally I thought the fears overdone , but nevertheless I sought to find a way of transferring the operation to the private sector which would minimize the risk of industrial action . |
| 40 | I agreed to undertake a panel . |
| 41 | I agreed to give a dinner and it took place in my London home some weeks later . |
| 42 | I agreed to take a look at these efforts , and we arranged to meet next day after my morning lectures . |
| 43 | Mark and I agreed to have a game together soon and I moved off down the course , and mused on the ways in which the pro golfers cope in their different ways with the unusual demands of the pro-am . |
| 44 | La Meije loomed above , but I failed to find a party who were doing the Grand Pic and returning . |
| 45 | I failed to play a tape throughout the weekend of a drill relentlessly droning away in some shelfless room out of sight . |
| 46 | Three days post-spawning I planned to remove a percentage of the anticipated hatch to rear separately and began to prepare another tank , only to find the female eating the eggs before I was fully prepared . |
| 47 | ‘ Now look , Connie me pet , it 's bleedin' cold in the parlour , ’ complained Archie , ‘ and , anyway , I got to see a bloke about a job . ’ |
| 48 | But , says Frank , ‘ a few weeks before I got to see a specialist I passed what looked like a bucket-full of blood into the toilet . |
| 49 | ‘ I got given a crate of this , it 's Château Margaux , by the small , fat and lecherous owner of one third of Singapore . |
| 50 | So I determined I got to have a go . |
| 51 | ‘ And then , blow me , I got offered a job at Radio One . |
| 52 | ‘ I expected to see a beach ! ’ she exclaimed . |
| 53 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
| 54 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |
| 55 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
| 56 | I , I hate to contradict a lady but I does Mrs realise that she is voting against the construction of T five if you support my . |
| 57 | ‘ I hate to interject a note of boring realism here , ’ Piers said , ‘ but is n't it easy to say that in retrospect ? ’ |
| 58 | I 'm a very new driver so I 'm very careful and very cautious , not a very good pedestrian , I tend to wave a fist and walk out whereas I always give the other person , you know I always sort of wave them on whereon in the car being a very new driver I am very cautious |
| 59 | When I paint , I tend to see a colour , put that down , then move to something else and put that down , hopefully with a bit of shape as well . |
| 60 | As I tend to use a float for zander I am convinced that I am not actively feeding fish in these situations as the float shows me that the zander has no intention of leaving the swim . |