Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 2 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 3 | later than that , it 's er I mean to go to the crematorium at quarter past eleven , we would n't be back here before twelve o'clock . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean to get to the bottom of it , ’ said Lydia , only without much conviction . |
| 5 | When , in his thirties , he took driving lessons and passed his test Dorothy refused to go out in the car with him : ‘ I intend to live to a ripe old age , thank you very much . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It was a trip of a lifetime and I intend to return to the States self-financed , I expect . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was the trip of a lifetime and I intend to return to the States — self-financed , I expect . ’ |
| 8 | For lunch I intend to go to the Strawberry Duck pub , Entwhistle , Saturday afternoon is free for shopping in Manchester 's Arndale Centre or whatever and for the evening meal the plan is to go to the new Indian take-away which has opened near Castle Irwell — the ‘ Tandoori Cottage ’ . |
| 9 | Mrs Keating shouted , ‘ I think you 'd better know , I intend to write to the school about this . ’ |
| 10 | Judge Harry Walker , who gave Jim bail yesterday , told him : ‘ I intend to get to the bottom of this . ’ |
| 11 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 12 | Do I need to go to a lawyer ? |
| 13 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 14 | I propose to write to the shops affected by the move of the Clerk Street stop — Edinburgh Fabrics ( 12/14 St Patrick Square ) — to advise them of the proposal . |
| 15 | Having said that , the question of to whom the resource should be provided must be addressed , and here I propose to generalise to a large extent , though initially to make reference to the local situation . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , Mummy , I promised to go to the common and play rounders with Ann and Ruth . ’ |
| 17 | Last night Le Saux said : ‘ I want to apologise to the fans because I obviously regret what I did . |
| 18 | I want to listen to the phone in . |
| 19 | I want to listen to the phone in . |
| 20 | In this context I want to refer to a brief but highly significant passage in Richards 's Practical Criticism . |
| 21 | I want to refer to the third Sessional Order , Mr. Speaker , dealing with access — the last one to which you referred . |
| 22 | I want to refer to the relationship between tobacco and sport , and particularly the role of sponsorship . |
| 23 | Rosenior insisted : ‘ I want to complain to the FA . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I want to go to a party and Mum wo n't let me . |
| 25 | ‘ I want to go to the zoo . ’ |
| 26 | and one day she said , Now then John I want to go to the other school to Mr , the schoolmaster to get a book . |
| 27 | ‘ Please , sir , ’ he said , ‘ I want to go to the toilet . ’ |
| 28 | I want to go to the fair . ’ |
| 29 | I want to go to the United States to experience a different culture . |
| 30 | I want to upgrade to a much larger reef tank in the near future , but first should I gain much-needed experience in keeping invertebrates before committing myself to the expense of failure with a large tank ? |