Example sentences of "i [vb base] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | No she , she does n't do a thing I mean to cook a Sunday dinner she does n't know what it is . |
| 3 | Very soon now they will be ready and then I mean to hold a great feast for all my people . |
| 4 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 5 | I mean to get the tissue paper |
| 6 | " I mean to buy a caravan — do they call them " Mobile Homes ' , what an awful name ! — Gigi will love it . " |
| 7 | By sacrifice and submission and by the Grace of God I mean to become a truly serious person , fit to make a new beginning and become a Catholic and a proper wife to you . |
| 8 | If I mean to mind a thing I never mind it |
| 9 | Come , now , I mean to have an answer . ’ |
| 10 | By the historicity of texts , I mean to suggest the cultural specificity , the social embedment , of all modes of writing … . |
| 11 | I mean to make a contribution . |
| 12 | ‘ There is some mystery surrounding your birth — I just know there is ! — and one of these days I mean to discover the truth . ’ |
| 13 | I intend to analyse the sexism in such texts on a more immediate , if mundane , level . |
| 14 | Later in this paper I intend to outline the curriculum and teaching strategies I hope will be retained within the national curriculum . |
| 15 | ‘ As soon as my work here is finished ’ , he wrote to Constanze , ‘ I shall join you , for I intend to take a long rest in your arms ; and I shall really need it , for all this mental worry and all the rushing about in connection with it is really wearing me out … . ’ |
| 16 | I intend to open the inquest on Monday , the seventh . |
| 17 | With regard to what you owe me , I intend to cancel the debt . |
| 18 | However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint . |
| 19 | From the waist-down I intend to wear a pair of blue jeans with the possible added attraction of whatever I manage to spill down them tonight in the pub . |
| 20 | But I intend to drive the strategy that is already in place and leave my successor to drive it even further . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Whatever the fact of the matter is , I intend to do the garden . ’ |
| 22 | I intend to use an external power filter . |
| 23 | I intend to use the report to review the present arrangements for the induction of newly qualified teachers and in-service training . |
| 24 | In fact , I intend to spend the night there . ’ |
| 25 | I intend to retell the story ( rather than talk about it ) from the perspective of the primitive church . |
| 26 | ‘ What 's more , I intend to hire a live-in nanny to give me a hand and to be there when I ca n't . |
| 27 | ‘ This is my bit of Wharfed ale , ’ each male sang , ‘ and I intend to entice a wife and raise a family — so all you other blokes , keep out . ’ |
| 28 | The course of my life during the period from the end of 1940 until the autumn of 1945 is one of which I intend to write an account ; but this is not the place for it . |
| 29 | Except that this condition clodhopped into view only because I intend to tell the unlipsticked truth to Gill . |
| 30 | 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 . |