Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then you would n't say no if I asked to take you in my arms under the pretext of inviting you to dance . ’ |
| 2 | I asked to see him , but they said no . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And the reason why I asked to see you rather than your superintendent was that you looked capable of rising above it . ’ |
| 4 | I asked to give him a lead . |
| 5 | I asked to meet her . |
| 6 | I asked to keep her talking , but I was thinking of the scribble on the photocopies I 'd found . |
| 7 | ‘ He 'd have done it willingly had I stopped to ask him , Bonnie , but I did n't . |
| 8 | ‘ Why on earth should I want to seduce you ? |
| 9 | Shall I I want to stir it . |
| 10 | To teach herself to handle thought , she made it a practise never to permit herself to touch a brush until she could answer these questions , in writing , in the fewest possible words : ‘ What attracted me to this subject ? ’ 'Why do I want to paint it ? ’ 'What is the thing I am trying to express ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Now what did I want to ask you … ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I neither love him , nor do I want to marry him . ’ |
| 13 | Why would I want to hurt her ? ’ |
| 14 | I find some offences disgust me , Im let the guy know , but then I let them know I want to help them |
| 15 | ‘ Why should I want to make you feel bad ? ’ he retorted . |
| 16 | Do I want to run you up ? |
| 17 | ‘ Why should I want to screw it up . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Why should I want to threaten you , Fran ? |
| 19 | I did not want to worry her , but neither did I want to discuss him , even with Margaret . |
| 20 | And then if I please to reach him a hand and pick him up again , he shall know and acknowledge to whom he owes it , and walk more humbly thereafter . |
| 21 | A year or so later I chanced to meet him and he acknowledged that this was just criticism , but that he had been obliged to insert these names so that his book would look like a truly up-to-date , intouch work of scholarship . |
| 22 | I valued his judgement highly , and look back with pleasure to the several visits I made to him-and his equally delightful wife Elizabeth at their cottage in Cambridge where he was a fellow of Churchill College . |
| 23 | ‘ Now I am very happy with the decision I made to sign him . |
| 24 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 25 | I 'ad to meet 'im after I 'd 'ad me look around . |
| 26 | Well , 'e give me 'alf-a-crown , so I 'ad to pay me dues in the way of informin' 'im . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's had a fever and now she wo n't let me out of her sight , so I 'ad to bring her . ’ |
| 28 | As the outcome bears no relation to either an efficient market or the declared aims of government policy , it sets up pressures for those who feel injured to seek political solutions , which mean greater government intervention and greater inefficiency — a treadmill with which I regret to say we are all too familiar in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | ‘ I regret to say I have , Mr Stevens . |
| 30 | ‘ I regret to say I think you are . |