Example sentences of "i [vb base] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 You 're going to help me make to make a birthday cake for Jim remember .
2 me want to do a da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da
3 ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’
4 No she , she does n't do a thing I mean to cook a Sunday dinner she does n't know what it is .
5 Very soon now they will be ready and then I mean to hold a great feast for all my people .
6 I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians .
7 I mean to get the tissue paper
8 " I mean to buy a caravan — do they call them " Mobile Homes ' , what an awful name ! — Gigi will love it . "
9 By sacrifice and submission and by the Grace of God I mean to become a truly serious person , fit to make a new beginning and become a Catholic and a proper wife to you .
10 If I mean to mind a thing I never mind it
11 Come , now , I mean to have an answer . ’
12 By the historicity of texts , I mean to suggest the cultural specificity , the social embedment , of all modes of writing … .
13 I mean to make a contribution .
14 ‘ There is some mystery surrounding your birth — I just know there is ! — and one of these days I mean to discover the truth . ’
15 I intend to analyse the sexism in such texts on a more immediate , if mundane , level .
16 Later in this paper I intend to outline the curriculum and teaching strategies I hope will be retained within the national curriculum .
17 ‘ As soon as my work here is finished ’ , he wrote to Constanze , ‘ I shall join you , for I intend to take a long rest in your arms ; and I shall really need it , for all this mental worry and all the rushing about in connection with it is really wearing me out … . ’
18 I intend to open the inquest on Monday , the seventh .
19 With regard to what you owe me , I intend to cancel the debt .
20 However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint .
21 From the waist-down I intend to wear a pair of blue jeans with the possible added attraction of whatever I manage to spill down them tonight in the pub .
22 But I intend to drive the strategy that is already in place and leave my successor to drive it even further . ’
23 ‘ Whatever the fact of the matter is , I intend to do the garden . ’
24 I intend to use an external power filter .
25 I intend to use the report to review the present arrangements for the induction of newly qualified teachers and in-service training .
26 In fact , I intend to spend the night there . ’
27 I intend to retell the story ( rather than talk about it ) from the perspective of the primitive church .
28 ‘ What 's more , I intend to hire a live-in nanny to give me a hand and to be there when I ca n't .
29 ‘ This is my bit of Wharfed ale , ’ each male sang , ‘ and I intend to entice a wife and raise a family — so all you other blokes , keep out . ’
30 The course of my life during the period from the end of 1940 until the autumn of 1945 is one of which I intend to write an account ; but this is not the place for it .
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