Example sentences of "i [vb base] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the historicity of texts , I mean to suggest the cultural specificity , the social embedment , of all modes of writing … . |
| 2 | Except that this condition clodhopped into view only because I intend to tell the unlipsticked truth to Gill . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe , if the game was against Australia or New Zealand Alan Tait would have been preferred , but Mal Reilly is building for the future and now I have my chance I intend to make the most of it . ’ |
| 4 | I intend to uncover the old boy system where everybody covers up when cases like this arise . |
| 5 | ‘ I hate to bring the real world into this , but is your room-mate going to pop in at any second ? ’ |
| 6 | I tend to take the beautiful surroundings of the mikva for granted ; in my local mikva , the private bathrooms which lead in total privacy into one of two mikvas are beautifully decorated and colour co-ordinated , centrally heated with modern power-showers and flouncy floral curtains all around . |
| 7 | If one has to take a view of the balance between the reinforce-and-stick-with-it , or the cut-your-loss schools , I think I tend to favour the cut-your-loss brigade . |
| 8 | How I long to see the black kid depicted as something other than the tam-donning , dope-smoking , unemployed gang member , structuring his life around reggae music , blues parties , and thieving , and phrasing his life 's ambitions in terms of one day to the next with little or no positive orientation to the world and an outlook flavoured by prejudice and ignorance . |
| 9 | Over the coming months I expect to see the Inland Revenue , the Customs and Excise and the DTI increasingly at work in an area ripe for their activities . |
| 10 | I am not so green that I expect to get the sole credit on this movie . |
| 11 | Instead , I propose to illustrate the distinctive nature of the British polity by comparing it , where appropriate , with the American . |
| 12 | I hesitate to correct the hon. Gentleman 's pronunciation , but in my day I fought the constituency of Islwyn which is now represented by the Leader of the Opposition , and I can tell him that it is pronounced ’ Issloin ’ . |
| 13 | We 're going to continue with this objective in the coming months in this , the third series , but before we get totally immersed I want to use the first three programmes to stand back to take a more general look at what universities are about today . |
| 14 | I want to underline the biggest mistake which I believe bands make when they are starting out . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to visit the Protestant temple . ’ |
| 16 | Similarly , in an 1894 speech , Millicent Fawcett pressed for the vote on the grounds that she ‘ wished to strengthen true womanliness in women , and because I want to see the womanly and domestic side of things weigh more and count for more in all public concerns ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I want to see the second one — Neferukhebit , ’ said Huy briskly . |
| 18 | I want to see the right kind of deal for electricity consumers in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | I want to see the National Health Service properly financed ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I want to see the respected Babu-sahib for Co-operatives , ’ said Ramlal . |
| 21 | In time he would say , ‘ I want to give the wretched a brotherly message . |
| 22 | Sooner or later I want to acquire the full range of British birds of prey , and the next bird I hope to work with is a goshawk . |
| 23 | I want to shoot the final sections . ’ |
| 24 | Now I want to examine the other half of the story . |
| 25 | 4 ) I want to replace the old RCA valves in my Roland Bolt 30 . |
| 26 | " I really have n't any particular interest in the sale , except that I want to do the best that I can for this retired artist , Sam Mills , " he said . |
| 27 | If I told you I want to install the first tube of the bridge next March or thereabouts , what 'd you say ? ’ |
| 28 | That day and later at Ascot , rocketing clear in all his glory was how I want to remember the great Nijinsky . |
| 29 | I want to ask the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East a thing or two . |
| 30 | However , I want to ask the hon. Gentleman a question . |