Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm I asked around to see if anyone else was interested in doing the same kind of thing . |
| 2 | I do not wish in any way to criticise you , and I appreciate that I applied today to ask such a question — |
| 3 | Then I crept forward to look at Granny . |
| 4 | I mean you wo n't want much but I mean just to hold it . |
| 5 | Well he 's taken us out when they 've been to bloody shop working and come back and wa I admitted that , but I mean just to go out for an evening . |
| 6 | Someone 's got ta come round I mean just to see where but I just I 'll ring , I 'll give you a buzz on Monday , I know you 're not there , you can say , well , I 'll see you again on Tuesday in English , perhaps you can arrange something then . |
| 7 | For example on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that up it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us as Councillors well , you know , do this for us and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air _ there 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through and an awful lot of people to see and an awful lot of red tape , really , to get through first — I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards — and that 's something which you have to get across to young people and if they 're involved in the actual discussions on this and involved in the organisation , they begin to see the complexities and they 're less inclined , I think , to automatically assume that erm people are n't on their side and do n't want to listen . |
| 8 | There 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through , an awful lot of people to see , an awful lot of red tape really to get through , first , I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards . |
| 9 | I mean only to provide the following answer to the argument from coordination as an argument for conventionalism . |
| 10 | I mean only to endorse a complex , two-stage way of reasoning about the responsibilities of officials and citizens that finds a natural expression in the personification of community and can not be reproduced by a reductive translation into claims about officials and citizens one by one . |
| 11 | I intend also to drop a line to Norman too . |
| 12 | I intend therefore to pursue three main strands . |
| 13 | I devoted my twenties to my family but I intend now to achieve the career that I never had before . |
| 14 | I intend speedily to provide a Quantity of Hysteric Drops , being apprehensive of Fits at the Sound of the Post-horn . |
| 15 | Mind you any , I would n't wan na move from Stratford on Avon if I lived there to go and live further north . |
| 16 | Would I prefer simply to fit a sequence of exercises into my daily routine ? |
| 17 | I goes upstairs to go to the toilet , and I 've got no carpet anywhere . |
| 18 | We complete if five degrees nose-down , still hammering along at 250 knots , but I push harder to increase the speed to 3400 , brace my stomach , and ease back until the g-meter reads a steady four . |
| 19 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 20 | I agreed not to tell the police , and said goodbye . |
| 21 | I failed recently to convince a group of people on Arran that the ‘ eagle ’ they were seeing was , in fact , a buzzard . |
| 22 | Sadly , I failed daily to get any of the pilots to use the Link , so I used the periods myself and , in time , overcame my shortcomings in bad-weather flying , I am convinced to this day that those stolen trips in the Link could well have prolonged my flying life in later years . |
| 23 | I dress in haste and at ten I sit down to compose until about twelve or half past twelve . |
| 24 | As I sit down to write I have a photograph propped up on the desk in front of me . |
| 25 | They had an army , and on 15th June , Bothwell and I rode out to fight them . |
| 26 | It was a hot , sunny day in summer when Cathy and I rode out to meet her cousin . |
| 27 | ‘ I cared only to escape from a life that was irksome and narrow , ’ said Taliesin , drinking his wine and reclining in the chair rather negligently . |
| 28 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 29 | I got through to become an ‘ aspirant guide ’ . |
| 30 | I got up to leave . |