Example sentences of "i to have " in BNC.

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1 I wanted John and I to have a chance together .
2 Am I to have two bedfellows again these warm nights ?
3 Are n't I to have any pleasure in life at all ? ’
4 Whether , of course , I would have taken this view were I to have had someone in my squadron who turned LMF is open to question , When I reflect on the young aircrew that I helped to train in 1940 at Kinloss , some 10 years younger than myself , I marvel that the conversation stage was the last stint before they were to confront a highly lethal opponent .
5 Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance .
6 The golden period of manufacture seems to me to have been in the late 1950s and early 1960s when both manufacturers were making superbly engineered , fully adjustable machines .
7 Sir : The ongoing debate about the suggestion by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals ( CVCP ) that universities must identify the full costs of their undergraduate programmes and should examine various ways in which these costs might be met seems to me to have largely missed the main point at issue .
8 The author of that book seems to me to have been a very sick man indeed . ’
9 It 's not essential for me to have four houses .
10 ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’
11 Representing a more traditional form of British cinema , John Schlesinger 's Madame Sousatzka ( Virgin ) has a stand-out performance by Shirley MacLaine and a keen eye for varied London locations , while A Time Of Destiny ( Vestron ) is a baroque romantic melodrama from Gregory Nava ( El Norte ) , which despite the miscasting of William Hurt as a Basque immigrant 's son seemed to me to have been unfairly downgraded .
12 They persuaded me to have a termination . ’
13 Now I am never ashamed of anything , for I consider shame to be a bourgeois and petty emotion , but this was the one occasion when I felt ashamed of myself , and I have never forgotten how sad it made me to have denied my principles for the sake of friendship and love — or what I imagined to be love .
14 It was a slow and painful realization , as when he had told me that he had been deliberately tempting me to have sex with him all along … .
15 ‘ Now look here , ’ said Otley , ‘ you asked me to have a bite with you and that venison does smell good . ’
16 ‘ She did not seem to me to have very much insight , ’ Alida said bitterly , ‘ I doubt if she could assess a human situation very accurately , I doubt if she would know where the truth of a matter lay . ’
17 Faldo , Ballesteros and Olazabal seem to me to have much the best chance of maintaining Europe 's monopoly .
18 Faldo , Ballesteros and Olazabal seem to me to have much the best chance of maintaining Europe 's monopoly on the Masters .
19 ‘ Opinion polls show that exactly 39 per cent of our voters would like me to have a relationship with Labour and the other 39 per cent would like us to have a relationship with the Tories .
20 Her school are sponsoring me to have the baby that day — Comic Relief day — providing we have photos taken of me and ( later ) the baby with red noses on .
21 You are curious , you are looking for something else , because this is the second time that you have invited me to have a drink , you order cheiro as though you were one of us , you are a foreigner and pretend to speak like us , yet you drink little and then you stay silent and wait for me to speak .
22 I must say again that it is very odd for me to have to describe all this for you .
23 The analysis associated with the Name of the Father , castration and the Oedipal seems to me to have less purchase in thinking television than it has had for cinema .
24 My husband wants me to have anal sex , but I find it revolting and painful .
25 Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes .
26 The Ballet Club paid a second visit to Johannesburg in July 1944 , and John wrote to Hanns , exclaiming jubilantly that ‘ We arranged for me to have meals at the Carlton , so I have been dining in style this week ! ’
27 Apart from ice-skating and hockey in my youth , I was not keen on participating in sport , but the sight of skiers gliding over the unmarked hills of newly fallen snow was enticing ; so when the actor Jack Bowdry invited me to have a go at the ski-run atop Grouse Mountain , across the inlet from Vancouver , I agreed with alacrity .
28 Or ‘ You wanted me to have the Tuscan villa , did you not ? ’
29 I was given to understand it was an honour for me to have been invited , and I was very much on trial .
30 I brought my net with me to have a go at 'em dinner time . ’
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