Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to pass the time until the tea cooled . |
| 2 | I applied to join the Royal Air Force and ended up in the Pay Corps , stationed initially at Devizes for three months ' square-bashing . |
| 3 | Whenever I visit Ian , seeing the fostering going on in various degrees , I 'm filled with admiration and feel I want to let the world know . |
| 4 | come come round I want to I 'll I want to see the product . |
| 5 | Not only do I want to know the story but I want to know the whys and wherefores . |
| 6 | I do n't want it poured over my head from a bucket in a comic that only appeals to the most basic and obvious , nor do I want to read the photo-copied scribblings of an undergrown fifth-former . |
| 7 | After downloading the umpteenth version of one program , loading and reloading assembling and EEPROMming software , I chanced to query the need for using the EEPROM programmer . |
| 8 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 9 | I mean to get the tissue paper |
| 10 | By the historicity of texts , I mean to suggest the cultural specificity , the social embedment , of all modes of writing … . |
| 11 | ‘ There is some mystery surrounding your birth — I just know there is ! — and one of these days I mean to discover the truth . ’ |
| 12 | I intend to analyse the sexism in such texts on a more immediate , if mundane , level . |
| 13 | Later in this paper I intend to outline the curriculum and teaching strategies I hope will be retained within the national curriculum . |
| 14 | I intend to open the inquest on Monday , the seventh . |
| 15 | With regard to what you owe me , I intend to cancel the debt . |
| 16 | But I intend to drive the strategy that is already in place and leave my successor to drive it even further . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Whatever the fact of the matter is , I intend to do the garden . ’ |
| 18 | I intend to use the report to review the present arrangements for the induction of newly qualified teachers and in-service training . |
| 19 | In fact , I intend to spend the night there . ’ |
| 20 | I intend to retell the story ( rather than talk about it ) from the perspective of the primitive church . |
| 21 | Except that this condition clodhopped into view only because I intend to tell the unlipsticked truth to Gill . |
| 22 | I intend to consider the libretto as Britten 's realistic reaction to a story that was all too easy to rended as either full-blown Grand Opera or stagey High Camp . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | I intend to uncover the old boy system where everybody covers up when cases like this arise . |
| 25 | I wish to give notice that , because of the Minister 's disgracefully complacent answers , I intend to raise the crisis of housing in Wales on the Adjournment . |
| 26 | In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the Minister 's answer to the question on the extension of VAT , I intend to raise the matter on the Adjournment . |
| 27 | I intend to keep the fry in a number of these nets for the first few weeks of their lives and feed them on newly hatched brine shrimp . |
| 28 | On my return I intend to complete the document and get publication underway . |
| 29 | On my return I intend to complete the document and get publication underway . |
| 30 | I intend to cut the blocks myself and ‘ true ’ each one ; each one to be 8×2×1in , with a lip on each bottom edge to form a key to the mastic . |