Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | The alternative vision is the one that I subscribe to , and along with me , most historians in this country and in America , and indeed increasingly erm a young generation of German historians , and this is that things began to go wrong well before nineteen fourteen , and that the Germans in fact deliberately started the First World War as the Treaty of Versailles said they did , that nineteen eighteen was not therefore the beginning of the evil , but merely a hiccup in erm a German attempt to conquer Europe , erm as it were , a play with two acts , the first act being nineteen fourteen to eighteen , and then the second act being nineteen thirty-nine to forty-five , two attempts to dominate the continent of Europe by military force . |
| 32 | Axelrod had already begun to think in ESS terms , but I felt that this tendency was so important that I wrote to him suggesting that he should get in touch with W. D. Hamilton , who was then , though Axelrod did n't know it , in a different department of the same university , the University of Michigan . |
| 33 | Before I left , I expressed the hope that he could pay another visit to Oxford , though this time a purely private one , and I see that I wrote to him repeating this towards the end of term — the final term — because on 17 June he replied to my home address : |
| 34 | ‘ And ‘ t was not for the hand of a child that I wrote to your father a year later . ’ |
| 35 | You will recall that I wrote to you in June requesting that this work be carried out , and I was given a job number ( which I do not have to hand ) , but no date for the work to be done . |
| 36 | It was Joan who told me of her death , and it was probably then that I wrote to your father and we started to exchange Christmas cards . |
| 37 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 38 | When I refused him , he reluctantly — on the evidence of my bank account — wrote me out permission for four weeks , with the proviso that I return to his office every four weeks … . |
| 39 | It is against that background that I return to the conclusion of the majority of the Court of Appeal that the mere fact that Wickes might be able to advance such an argument founded upon article 30 , which was at least not a groundless argument , compelled the Court of Appeal to require an undertaking in damages from the council . |
| 40 | And the form that I return to is the form of human being , erm , that 's the form that I have and whatever individuates Socrates from Plato erm is not a matter of the form because they have exactly the same form . |
| 41 | Accordingly , Sir David has requested that I convey to young Reginald the facts of life . ’ |
| 42 | I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world . |
| 43 | Yes , a lot was happening in 1933 , but my arrival still managed to create a bit of a stir in the ordinary , working-class South London family that I belonged to . |
| 44 | It was unbearable that the gallery girl should imagine that I belonged to Syl , that his glances and suggestive remarks had ensnared me . |
| 45 | Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you . |
| 46 | I do n't rise sooner , because 't is the worst thing in the world for the complexion ; nat that I pretend to be a beau ; but a man must endeavour to look wholesome , lest he make so nauseous a figure in the side-bax , the ladies should be compelled to turn their eyes upon the play . |
| 47 | Well , you 've had all you 're getting , my sweet little stepsister , and that 's the reason I 'm here today — to assure you that I intend to finally put an end to your grubby manoeuvres to extract money from my family ! ’ |
| 48 | ‘ I have to admit that I prefer to be in charge of any given situation . |
| 49 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 50 | Therefore , it is against that back-cloth , that I respond to these orchestrated criticisms and express my views on the man I have come to know as a friend and a very good colleague . |
| 51 | ‘ I could find nothing that I knew to be untrue . |
| 52 | And I found many details that I knew to be true . |
| 53 | He recommended that I go to a hospital and see a psychiatrist . |
| 54 | Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about . |
| 55 | ‘ Why did you insist that I go to work for you … ? |
| 56 | ‘ You 're suggesting that I go to him ? ’ she 'd hissed . |
| 57 | This could be expressed as ‘ A hospital is a place that I go to in order to get treated by a doctor . |
| 58 | Why is it lately that I go to , before I start my my work |
| 59 | and there is so many people smoking where , in the pubs that I go to and I do n't have it cos I think it looks disgusting I come here and because we go around in like threes and it 's , you know , |
| 60 | Except that I hope to God they let Sam go . ’ |