Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 2 | I asked to pass the time until the tea cooled . |
| 3 | Why on earth would I want to do a thing like that ? ’ |
| 4 | Whenever I visit Ian , seeing the fostering going on in various degrees , I 'm filled with admiration and feel I want to let the world know . |
| 5 | That 's why I thought , when I come back the next time and you 're upset I said oh no way do I want to upset a woman like that . |
| 6 | come come round I want to I 'll I want to see the product . |
| 7 | Do I want to follow a set exercise programme or would I prefer to change my life-style so that I become more active ? |
| 8 | Not only do I want to know the story but I want to know the whys and wherefores . |
| 9 | Do I want to make a will |
| 10 | Well he said they 'd been round with a helicopter , a plane taking photos of the houses , did I want to buy a photo of me house , twenty pound . |
| 11 | It 's asking do I want to keep a hold on one of these two , and if so , which ? |
| 12 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 13 | After downloading the umpteenth version of one program , loading and reloading assembling and EEPROMming software , I chanced to query the need for using the EEPROM programmer . |
| 14 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
| 15 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I cheated to prevent a theft , not to achieve one , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 17 | No she , she does n't do a thing I mean to cook a Sunday dinner she does n't know what it is . |
| 18 | I mean to get the tissue paper |
| 19 | " I mean to buy a caravan — do they call them " Mobile Homes ' , what an awful name ! — Gigi will love it . " |
| 20 | If I mean to mind a thing I never mind it |
| 21 | Come , now , I mean to have an answer . ’ |
| 22 | I mean to make a contribution . |
| 23 | ‘ There is some mystery surrounding your birth — I just know there is ! — and one of these days I mean to discover the truth . ’ |
| 24 | I intend to analyse the sexism in such texts on a more immediate , if mundane , level . |
| 25 | Later in this paper I intend to outline the curriculum and teaching strategies I hope will be retained within the national curriculum . |
| 26 | I intend to open the inquest on Monday , the seventh . |
| 27 | With regard to what you owe me , I intend to cancel the debt . |
| 28 | From the waist-down I intend to wear a pair of blue jeans with the possible added attraction of whatever I manage to spill down them tonight in the pub . |
| 29 | But I intend to drive the strategy that is already in place and leave my successor to drive it even further . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Whatever the fact of the matter is , I intend to do the garden . ’ |