Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 2 | I asked to talk to Cal again . |
| 3 | I asked to speak to Gina Buffon . |
| 4 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 5 | I waited for her to say something else , but she did n't , so I asked to speak to Toby . |
| 6 | I asked to speak to somebody in the Highways in the Transportation |
| 7 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 8 | I asked to come to Grendon , I did n't like it when i got here , it took a lot of getting used |
| 9 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 10 | Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it . |
| 11 | What do you mean what do I want to do with it ? |
| 12 | Do I want to teach after all ? ’ and this is because of what the others say to you , the more experienced teachers . |
| 13 | So why do I want to fall in love again ? |
| 14 | If it was not me speaking , would I want to listen to me ? |
| 15 | Why would I want to talk about them to anyone else ? ’ |
| 16 | What should I want to take with me ? ’ |
| 17 | But we still got the threat : I 'd be summonsed , and no way did I want to go to court . |
| 18 | When do n't I want to go to bed with her ? |
| 19 | Do I want to go to this wonderful balloon festival ? |
| 20 | Why on earth should I want to go after him ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |
| 22 | Why should I want to look at pictures of you stuck in little cracks ? |
| 23 | In the light of the overall aim , set an immediate end result by answering the question ‘ What result do I want to achieve by the end of this interaction ? ’ |
| 24 | Who would I want to fight with an old man ? " |
| 25 | Imagine my shock when , just as I 'd begun thumping the bottom of the big brown pot , I chanced to look inside the bin and there , half buried in rubbish , was Cymbeline 's red plastic teapot . |
| 26 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 27 | I made to reach for one . |
| 28 | I mean to compare with an elephant dropping , it 's small . |
| 29 | I mean to live in England and be a Master of Hounds , not a rotten little king of a rotten little country . |
| 30 | later than that , it 's er I mean to go to the crematorium at quarter past eleven , we would n't be back here before twelve o'clock . |