Example sentences of "i [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do n't honestly expect me to agree to that idea ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And you expect me to agree to all that ? |
| 3 | Oh dear , do n't tell me to go to one of those dreary little do-gooding tea groups . |
| 4 | Maybe I mentioned about the fillings coming out on this side of my mouth and at the back , so I ca They took it out in my living room and hypnotized me to forget , hypnotized walking about in my sleep with it , to sleep , got me in the chair and done it , got out of the house , programmed me to go to that dentist in , which I did do instead of going to Mr at . |
| 5 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 6 | ‘ Let me explain to all of you why this case is so different , ’ Tanner continued , hunching his huge shoulders , his big hands spread before him on the table . |
| 7 | ‘ I wish you 'd let me explain to Old Red . |
| 8 | Thank you , yes , erm thank you very much for inviting me to attend to those meetings and giving me the opportunity to meet you all . |
| 9 | This is the experiment and experience I commend to any business man or industrialist who wants to meet the challenge of the ideological crisis of our times . |
| 10 | Our trucks had open sides and Marius , Vermulen and I clung to each other , faces buried in our hoods , as we churned down the slushy autoroutes , the speed of the trucks sending icy , sawing winds through us at seventy kilometres per hour . |
| 11 | The point I made to half , and now I 'll make it again to the whole , yesterday , was that it 's very important to , to define your roles in a particular thing . |
| 12 | Well it 's a bit i well I , well I could do but it 's a bit tricky I mean to some |
| 13 | So I expanded to thirty percent on the , they had a Metroset in those days , and I said , you know , this is not likely to work so I 'm sending it out getting handset phototype , so I did . |
| 14 | I agreed to both these things and carefully picked up two of his officers in my hands . |
| 15 | I agreed to this trip because of that . |
| 16 | ‘ Heaven knows , when I agreed to this I 'd no idea it would cause such anger — ’ She gave Peter a reproachful glance . |
| 17 | When I got to higher ground , I sat on a long , flat slab of white rock in a salmon-pink sea . |
| 18 | She has encouraged me to talk about what happened before I got to that stage , and to think about what might have led up to it . |
| 19 | I I got to that erm question you know you said could n't do any the geometry do the rest . |
| 20 | And of course they go up here beautiful and I was going to take this apple and they 're all gon na fall and I got to that , Jesus it just about . |
| 21 | Well whe , when I got to that |
| 22 | But umm I sort of drove on for a bit and thought it feels alright and then when I got to that , you know B P petrol station , I pulled in and got out and had a look . |
| 23 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 24 | And when I was when I got to New York , I was met by two first cousins from two different families er Bert who 's er er nephew of my my mother 's sister Laura Anne in in New York , and another one , William who 'd been very successful vice president of or something . |
| 25 | T. D. I was on the beat round Stanley Hospital and I got to this point at four o'clock on the Saturday morning . |
| 26 | Now when I was preparing this evidence , I got to this point and I thought to myself , why on earth has this not happened in Richmondshire ? |
| 27 | My one ambition had been to be a pro , and I got to ten handicap . |
| 28 | And I got to ten seven on that . |
| 29 | I was so frightened you 'd walk out of my life again that I sank to ignominious depths to keep you close to me . ’ |
| 30 | I will also devote some time to topic work because of the importance I attach to integrated approaches to learning . |