Example sentences of "his intention [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former National Party leader and Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon , also an outspoken opponent of free market economics , was offered several minor posts outside the Cabinet , but turned them all down as " insulting " and expressed his intention to remain on the back benches , from where he would be free to criticize the new government . |
| 2 | And watching Gordon Wilson 's maiden speech to the Dublin Senate , one reflected that he is probably the only man in Ulster who is able to announce his intention to talk to the IRA and who no-one would dare to denounce . |
| 3 | Contract Director , Bill Freeman , who recently announced his intention to retire at the end of the year , started his carpet career with Stoddard in 1956 . |
| 4 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Feb. 21 reported that Daim had made clear his intention to retire before the October 1990 general election . |
| 5 | Despite the setback , Lacalle announced his intention to continue with the privatization programme within the next two years . |
| 6 | On the following day , while visiting the McDonnell Douglas plant near St Louis , Missouri , he announced his intention to proceed with the sale of 72 F-15 fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia which would guarantee thousands of jobs at the plant . |
| 7 | When he set out today it had been his intention to make for the hills bordering the Golden Valley , but when he got through Blakemere the sweat was dripping from his chin and the sight of a stream tinkling its way not three yards from the road automatically brought his legs off the pedals . |
| 8 | On May 8 Martin Shikuku , interim secretary-general of the party , declared his intention to stand for the presidency . |
| 9 | Mesic , who reiterated on Sept. 12 his intention to resign after the expiry on Oct. 7 of the EC moratorium , accused the army of staging what amounted to a military coup by ignoring his orders , saying that he would ask for foreign intervention and bring charges against army commanders unless the JNA halted its attacks on Croatian towns and withdrew . |