Example sentences of "i [verb] to make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I want to make a will |
| 2 | I mean to make a contribution . |
| 3 | Q. I intend to make a venturi to fit into a transfer pipe from one filter to the next , to allow the introduction of air into the system I am currently building . |
| 4 | I intend to make a great deal of money from this if my speculations are correct . ’ |
| 5 | Yet somehow Edward must be appeased , so I sought to make a virtue of my ignorance , asking questions that would allow him to air his greater experience . |
| 6 | I tried to make a joke out of it . |
| 7 | I tried to make a joke out of it . |
| 8 | I tried to make a bonfire with them on the lawn . |
| 9 | At first I tried to make a comparison between a large northern comprehensive school and a smaller London church school . |
| 10 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
| 11 | I tried to make a |
| 12 | ‘ I expect to make a statement any day now . |
| 13 | ‘ I expect to make a lot of money , ’ she said coolly , sitting down to pour . |
| 14 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 15 | But on one pleasure note , I want to make a plug for the Making Out series . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've got a visitor coming at six o'clock and I want to make a good impression on him — it 's twenty to four already . ’ |
| 17 | I 've just had a telephone sales call to see if I want to make a will . |
| 18 | That 's all I ever wanted to do in boxing after I 'd learned the craft and now I want to make a little bit more ’ . |
| 19 | Now when I look back on that part of my life , I want to make a film and call it The Loneliness of the Long Distance Latent Lesbian . |
| 20 | Watson , for whom The Mirror helped raise £150,000 in a special appeal night in July , is being cared for in an East London neurological rehabilitation unit , added : ‘ I am here until next March — it 's driving me crazy because I want to make a comeback . |
| 21 | ‘ But at some point I will need to sit down and figure out if I want to make a real career shift into another area , such as politics . |
| 22 | Sometime I will need to figure out if I want to make a real career shift — such as politics . |
| 23 | Before we go on to explore in some detail how the Stress Syndrome comes about I want to make a couple of general points . |
| 24 | " I want to make a film ! " he said |
| 25 | I want to make a phone call . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I want to make a will . |
| 27 | I want to make a few suggestions to my right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary about small businesses . |
| 28 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 29 | I want to make a call to … |
| 30 | Er I want , I want to make a casserole have you got either a neck of lamb or an ox tail or something like that ? |