Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So why do I want to fall in love again ?
2 When do n't I want to go to bed with her ?
3 But we still got the threat : I 'd be summonsed , and no way did I want to go to court .
4 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 . ’
5 ‘ However , I intend to stay with Marguerite .
6 I intend to stay in control — and I will make my own decisions all the way . ’
7 Which does n't mean I intend to leap into bed with you just because fate washed you up on my beach .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 But the contract I agreed to sign on behalf of Jean-Claude was a very different one from the one M. Chaillot had intended me to sign .
11 When I married my wife Mary , however , I planned to stay at home for a while .
12 ‘ At first I planned to stay in hospital with Jessica , but this has been so much better .
13 But I got to carry on walking , cos I do n't have no card .
14 I got to nip round Bet 's .
15 I expected to look like shit but this was ridiculous .
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 work in pastels quite a lot , but I tend to work in colour all the time rather than pencil or charcoal .
19 I tend to eat through boredom , and all the wrong things .
20 Yeah , another element , but what did , what did I need to know about Host ?
21 We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) .
22 So in the end I went upstairs , left Tony to it and I came back down and I tried to go to sleep again , I put me coat over me head and I could n't sleep so I moved .
23 Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush .
24 I only remembered it when I leaned forward or when I tried to sleep at night .
25 I tried to show in chapter 4 that such events may have happened , on a geological time scale , very quickly indeed .
26 It gave me , I confess to you frankly , many hours of quiet grief , which I tried to bear with philosophy .
27 Each time I pretended to go to sleep again and went crazy after a few minutes .
28 I want to fall in love , she thought , looking away from him with helpless distaste .
29 I want to die in peace .
30 ‘ There 's something I want to see on television , ’ I lied .
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