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Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [be] [to-vb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	As a teacher researcher wanting to investigate the effect of new technology in school , one of the lines of research I followed was to use a questionnaire to ascertain the attitudes of my pupils to computers .
2	I saw my new home in October 1981 ; it was about the seventh or eighth place I had been to look at .
3	My favourite , no-check method of raising the dozen , or so , plants I need is to set seeds in biodegradable 3in ( 8cm ) Fyba Growpots .
4	So that 's just for your per your personal pride I suppose is to try and get that because
5	His main use I think is to bolster the reader 's view of Eddie and is used by Miller to drive home Eddie 's feelings in case you do not know them already .
6	The only second phone call I had was to say what is happening .
7	In fact , the only social folly I committed was to pretend I understood about contraception .
8	Merchanting er , is the buying and selling of materials not the production of materials , and erm , I was probably the first person from this area , in the leather trade , to go to China and we started to do quite a large business with China , so that immediately I was on my own , the first big operation I took was to go to China and make very substantial purchases of pigskin leather .
9	‘ The biggest mistake I made was to start playing professional golf so early , ’ he explains .
10	The thing I learnt was to turn conflict round so that it was n't a negative thing , it was a cool thing . ’
11	The last thing I want is to upset him or the family — I ca n't bear hurting people — but I 'm harmless ; you can tell him that ! ’
12	The last thing I want is to impale this dancing , living creature upon the stake of meaning .
13	Lewis said yesterday : ‘ The last thing I want is to get the title outside the ring .
14	The first thing I did was to refurbish my 1973 vehicle , of course I have kept it in good order .
15	So the first thing I did was to spend ten years with the Royal Shakespeare Company !
16	With this in mind , the first thing I did was to join the Oxford Exploration Club .
17	The last thing I did was to fire the blazing stream of petrol at the buck still sitting stuffed and dead and oozing blood in the forefront of the Grounds .
18	They were absolutely horrid and if I went on the beach , the first thing I did was to dig a hole in the sand to put the feet in and then just stay there all day … .
19	The first major thing I did was to have a road laid from the top , rather a long way .
20	‘ First thing I did was to try to get us organized to leave again .
21	The first thing I did was to get used to it .
22	‘ The last thing I need is to keep arguing with the chairman .
23	The last thing I wanted was to have to write the outline again .
24	The last thing I wanted was to make some hasty move which might invalidate my claims to a large share of our joint estate .
25	In the last game when we lost two players in the same position the last thing I wanted was to come to a quick decision with my brain still buzzing after a training session .
26	The last thing I wanted was to find myself slithering down the steep craggy section above the corrie , having mistakenly bypassed the Y-shaped gully that led back to the car , yet I could sense I was getting it all a bit wrong .
27	I now knew the last thing in the whole world I wanted was to go into the mountains again with FAKINTIL .
28	The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas .
29	The purpose of the planning system I think is to develop government guidance er and therefore we think there 's a need for something further than P P G three .
30	One idea I had was to get the teddy bears to do the ‘ hokey cokey ’ [ p.67 ] with the children putting in their teddies ' left arms and shaking them about .