Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 2 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 3 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 4 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |
| 5 | I mean to start as a group home , well I mean it , of all the places , A it 's not like an ordinary home |
| 6 | I do n't have time to play but , I mean to play in a concert band or anything but I might go and knock about with it for a while . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 9 | ‘ I hate to sound like a detective , but there was a puddle outside the front gate and only one new set of tyre-marks between the Saturday night and the Sunday night . |
| 10 | Facing the loathsome rat-men I tend to opt for a defensive strategy and try and inflict as many casualties as possible at long range . |
| 11 | I use it normally on a clean setting , but if I want distortion I tend to go through a BOSS Turbo Overdrive pedal and then into the Rock Box . |
| 12 | No , I tend to break into a crate of Nettles Old Fester . |
| 13 | The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years |
| 14 | Will I need to invest in a Nitragon filter ? |
| 15 | Do I need to go to a lawyer ? |
| 16 | I knew he was there , and that if I tried to move in a certain direction I 'd bump into him . |
| 17 | This seemed to me to be a pretty fair definition of hell , but I tried to look like a man who enjoyed such occasions . |
| 18 | I tried to change into a different person — shorter hair , a moustache , quiet suits . |
| 19 | I tried to apply for a credit card , but they refused me . |
| 20 | For my own purposes , I propose to treat as a way of life argument any claim that a particular policy decision would have significant consequences for the demographic , economic or social life of a community , or that it would significantly affect the atmosphere or symbolic existence of that community . |
| 21 | I propose to broadcast on a world-wide scale , a message to the good folk of this fair planet . ’ |
| 22 | In Chapter 5 I propose to look at a different aspect of metalinguistic politics : the way in which grammarians and linguists have projected a male/ female dichotomy on to the languages of the world , and their attempts to use grammar as a tactical weapon in the battle of the sexes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I rose to preach with a jolly remark about there being an official opposition , ‘ but perhaps it will be going for a walk in a little while ’ . |
| 25 | The central question I want to use as a peg on which to hang various theories is , ‘ Why are so few Christians aware of the direct threat of modernity to the Christian church ? ’ |
| 26 | I 'M getting married in less than two months and I want to lose about a stone before then to get in shape for the big day . |
| 27 | I want to lie in a sunny green field . |
| 28 | I wan , I want to la , I want to live for a bit longer . |
| 29 | ‘ I want to live in a small village. , |
| 30 | ‘ I want to live in a big house , with lots of rooms . ’ |