Example sentences of "i [vb base] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A useful approach , is to be found in Dawson and Stevens , Family Proceedings Court ( 1991 ) which I commend to practitioners in this field and to justices and their clerks . |
| 2 | government , it it 's various years so I hate to sort of say , ah well council taxes cuts will be a bit lower er with the conservatives going to be an argument which is but halfway to equal counties so I think we can sort of discount really what the conservatives say but I will say the liberal democrats are to be . |
| 3 | I 've actually the last time I got some delivered for me was February so I tend to sort of get something about once a month I think . |
| 4 | I believe that the importance that I attach to tradition in the philosophy of art is implicit in The Story of Art . |
| 5 | When I fly to California for my final rethink , maybe I 'll go the whole hog and get my blood fixed too . |
| 6 | I report to H.Q at the appointed time . |
| 7 | I suggest to T.W.R. from Glamorgan that if he is sick of hearing about Steffi , he should move to the moon . |
| 8 | Now at this point I want to sort of take a break from looking at the development of the Communist Party to looking briefly at the peasantry because although the peasantry have been in the background for much of the time , we have n't actually looked in any detail , so far , at the condition of the peasantry in China . |
| 9 | and er obviously I want to sort of give you the best possible price |
| 10 | I want to gorge on life with you , I want to take your strength from you and give you my care . |
| 11 | ‘ He has been told simply that I object to marriage with Artai , ’ she said . |
| 12 | ‘ I listen to techno in the clubs , but never at home . |
| 13 | I look to NI for an alternative view of the world . |
| 14 | I look to NI for factual-thought-provoking journalism , not April Fool 's Day articles . |
| 15 | he said erm do you mind if I travel to Richmond with you ? |
| 16 | I set to work with my little bag of magic potions and do you know what I discovered ? ’ |
| 17 | I set to work with the pick . |
| 18 | I like to independence with economics , you do n't have your independence without economic independence . |
| 19 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 20 | from you , then you get changed and then go , but , last week he took the car , cos when I got home , first I was late last Wednesday , well I say late , I did n't get back here , erm , until seven , so by the time I got home it was quarter past seven and I have to make sure I get to Weightwatchers between seven and eight . |
| 21 | When I hear songs like ‘ Sun ’ and ‘ Snowblind ’ I get to thinking of Blondie 's ‘ Union City Blue ’ — the sonic glory and writing confidence , the way a cool verse flips into a tasty bridge and then choruswards , the way that sad words are dropped into an uplifting tune , leaving you moved and confused . |
| 22 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 23 | I defer to Lucker in case his ego ca n't take it . |
| 24 | Where I refer to sections of the Act which confer powers upon the Secretary of State which are now exercised by the S.I.B. , I shall refer to that body . |
| 25 | I refer to demos of their high end programs . |
| 26 | Again another colleague with a really outstanding record of service not only to the trade union movement and the Party but more so to the G M B and I refer to Eric from the Lancashire region . |
| 27 | I refer to letter of regarding the conditional offer of appointment to the above post . |
| 28 | I refer to information regarding school buildings and equipment , to relevant financial information , to details of the type , number , education and training of teachers in an area , to languages understood and spoken , to the availability or scarcity of local resources . |
| 29 | Sir : I appeal to mothers around the world of all religions and cultures to teach and nurture their children to respect life and not to destroy it wantonly . |
| 30 | When I talk to archdeacons about this , they are quite likely to say ( with some notable exceptions ! ) , |