Example sentences of "i [vb base] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When I count to ten , you will relax … ’ |
| 32 | ‘ Tapeinosis , my dear Appleton ; be humble , be humble , ’ was said to me a score of times , and I imagine to many another student . |
| 33 | Chairman , I , I , I , I object to that , because I think that that was n't either the tone of my question or or the implication of my question . |
| 34 | I object to that ! |
| 35 | I like it fine , except for this brushing , I object to all this mess it 's doing and |
| 36 | I object to these things actually on principal . |
| 37 | I mean you get , straight , no I object to this planning extension , looks fine , and then you start enquiring and all sorts of nasty things appear |
| 38 | Like if I , if if you know if you say , oh I object to this , then I 'd just turn it off and rer rer erase it . |
| 39 | I I object to this . |
| 40 | Yeah , I 'm going to ring them up in a moment and tell them I object to some of the advertisements , particularly for drugs that they 're advertising . |
| 41 | When , at the high point of the opera , Norma , the stir began to get into her stride with ‘ Casta Diva ’ , and George into his stride with gratuitous evaluations of the lighting and editing , a woman behind us brought a large bag of herrings smartly down on George 's bald head , with the words : ‘ Will yer for Jesus 's sake hold yer gob while I listen to that poor woman there ! ’ |
| 42 | There 's other types of music that I listen to that do make my hair stand on end and they do n't have a single guitar in them ! |
| 43 | I listen to classical , jazz , rock , MOR , everything . |
| 44 | What I am feeling as I listen to this is a strange movement in the undergrowth immediately in front of me ; a smile spreading inside my beard … |
| 45 | I speak to many farmers — large and small — including some in my hon. Friend 's constituency . |
| 46 | We employ 30,000 people in the UK business and I speak to 15,000 of them every year in groups of 200 or less , because I think the Japanese have shown what good human relations can achieve . |
| 47 | by the time I hope to four years |
| 48 | I look to those responsible , including local authorities , to use these resources wisely and to improve the value for money in the services they buy . |
| 49 | But even with that clutch of reasons to be glassy-eyed , I 've stayed almost sober for an entire month , sitting miserably at the bar wondering why low-alcohol lager has an after-taste like floor polish , and disturbing old friends with the rapt attention I give to such enquiries as : ‘ Ice and lemon in your tonic water , sir ? ’ |
| 50 | I pledge to increase the amount of time or money I give to environmental and development organisations . |
| 51 | I travel to other worlds . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ No one knows more than me how much I owe to this country , how much I vow to give back to it for what it has done to me , ’ he said . |
| 53 | Accordingly , Sir David has requested that I convey to young Reginald the facts of life . ’ |
| 54 | The fact that people will give money to save the otter , a nocturnal animal whose presence is detected even by full-time otter survey teams only by its tracks and droppings , is the best answer I know to that mean-spirited and illogical argument : ‘ What 's the use of saving it , if I ca n't see it ? ’ |
| 55 | I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total . |
| 56 | See by the time I get to that stage it 's too late to do any thing to send off |
| 57 | I have n't had much chance to go shopping but I always make sure I get to two places — one called Garage and another called Hyper Hyper . |
| 58 | Noticeable notice that our our growth er , items er six and seven additional enforcement officer er officers for countryside protection , er we can actually like to do that and I 'll just come on to that in a moment when I get to two B but also in terms of growth er this group wants to see ten er whole time fire fighters , additional whole time fire fighters erm we wo n't get better in terms of confidence though fire engine survey this year but we we 'd rather sort of form |
| 59 | When I get to fifteen , I stop … |
| 60 | But they did that to me when I was their age and now as soon as I get to fourteen when when you can , when you can , when you could do that And now today it 's not fair . |