Example sentences of "i [vb base] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A useful approach , is to be found in Dawson and Stevens , Family Proceedings Court ( 1991 ) which I commend to practitioners in this field and to justices and their clerks . |
| 2 | I say to ministers : put this particular bottle of ineffective medicine in the cupboard and forget about it . |
| 3 | ‘ I say to kids , go down to the high street bank , see the bank manager and find out whether he 'll lend you the fifty grand you need to make this record . |
| 4 | Often I suggest to children that the piece of paper could be used for learning about the subject they 've decided on , or which I 've given them , in any way they feel is right . |
| 5 | ‘ And I 'm eighty-eight , and I object to draughts and crowds as strongly as ever . |
| 6 | Larry Finlay said that he had changed his mind recently on the subject : ‘ the more I speak to booksellers , the more I hear that catalogues are used ’ . |
| 7 | I hope I can get plain sewing work enough where I need not spoil my fingers , but if I ca n't , I hope to mae my hands as red as blood pudding and as hard as a beechen trencher to accommodate them to my condition . |
| 8 | ‘ I jump to conclusions , ’ he interrupted incredulously . |
| 9 | And throughout the journey , the question asked by that woman in the beginning anchored the emphasis of this book , it shook a fist at the ghosts over my shoulder ( because like most people I give to others the power to intimidate and censor from afar ) and it forced me to make the chronicle accountable to its subjects . |
| 10 | I get to places much quicker than I used to : places like the far end of the room . |
| 11 | Where I refer to sections of the Act which confer powers upon the Secretary of State which are now exercised by the S.I.B. , I shall refer to that body . |
| 12 | I refer to things such as good accent and command of language , general knowledge on wide-ranging topics such as falconing or newt-mating — attributes none of which my father could have boasted . |
| 13 | I refer to demos of their high end programs . |
| 14 | I refer to figures published by the Minister on 12 November , in which she sets out the number of prisoners currently held in police cells . |
| 15 | When I reply to debates , it is my custom to have heard all the speeches that have been made , so it is unfortunate that pressing circumstances outside the House have led me this evening to commit the grave discourtesy of not being in my place to hear as many speeches as I should have liked . |
| 16 | ‘ I appeal to employers to look on ex-service people and see the loyal , hard-working men and women that they are . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And I appeal to employers to look on our ex-service people and see in them the opportunity for the loyal , dedicated , hard-working men and women that they are . ’ |
| 18 | Sir : I appeal to mothers around the world of all religions and cultures to teach and nurture their children to respect life and not to destroy it wantonly . |
| 19 | I appeal to farmers and cultivators to plant every possible acre during the coming planting season . |
| 20 | When I talk to parents I find that they have tried most known procedures for stopping fights — but still the squabbles continue . |
| 21 | When I talk to archdeacons about this , they are quite likely to say ( with some notable exceptions ! ) , |
| 22 | Whenever I talk to groups of teachers who are willing for a moment to lay aside the grim realities and talk and think big , I hear them saying exactly the same . |
| 23 | I talk to friends in the system and things seem to be going downhill ! |
| 24 | You know when I talk to friends they tell me that despite all my big race wins I have still been virtually ignored by the public who seem unaware most of the time that I am around . |
| 25 | And , just like Prince Charles , he admits : ‘ I talk to plants . ’ |
| 26 | Sometimes I answer questions that you will ask in a while , sometimes I respond to queries from moments ago . |
| 27 | ‘ From troubles of the world , I turn to ducks … ’ wrote F.W. Harvey , the poet . |
| 28 | Erm there 's a sense in which y'know kind of when I go to concerts erm there 's y'know kind of there 's loads of blokes who take their shirts off and er wrestle around together and build human pyramids and do all that kind of , lots of body contact , lots of grasping one-another and all that kind of thing and yet erm y'know presumably to them , on the assumption that they 're heterosexual , as I assume probably they are , it 's it 's one of these things that erm y'know is kind of again maybe it even occurs at the same time as they 're quite homophobic in some cases . |
| 29 | Er do n't very often have this you see when I go to talks that . |
| 30 | Life at Algox existed within a framework of Meetings ( I go to Meetings , therefore I am ) . |