Example sentences of "i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do n't honestly expect me to agree to that idea ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And you expect me to agree to all that ? |
| 3 | You do n't honestly expect me to agree to a statement like that , do you ? ’ he snapped violently . |
| 4 | ‘ The trouble is that I know that all the time he 's only trying to ingratiate himself in order to get me to agree to a merger . |
| 5 | She asked me to apologize to you , should I see you , for not having answered your last letter . |
| 6 | Rosemary , playing safe , refused to go out with him unless I came too so in the end we used to make up a foursome with Henry 's pilot , Jimmy , and with me sticking to my policy of not getting involved . |
| 7 | ‘ It 'll make me want to be a Brownie even more ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 9 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 10 | M. It makes me want to be sick . |
| 11 | It was easy for me to pretend to be in love with the Princess . |
| 12 | I do n't even like you ; you 're virtually blackmailing me to work for you , and now you want me to pretend to be your girlfriend ? ’ |
| 13 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 14 | They asked me to report to them every week , but I did n't go , and they stopped my benefit . |
| 15 | It is normal for me to report to the Council 's Planning Committee the end of year disease statistics and any recommendations which might be necessary in line with the management strategy . |
| 16 | ‘ Unless , of course , you 'd prefer me to report to the Reichsführer that we lost this man because of your stupidity . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I do not accept that David Trippier is supporting the action of the trade unions , or is asking me to go to arbitration , or expects that the management , having made a final offer , should move from that final offer . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I was at Queen Eleanor 's and they urged me to go to university , but I wanted to be independent , so I came into the Met . ’ |
| 19 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 20 | Anyway , Nick was pleased enough to ask me to go to Madrid and caddie for him . |
| 21 | ‘ Jesus told me to go to France . |
| 22 | Suffer me to go to my infamy ! ’ |
| 23 | She wanted me to go to her rooms in Bloomsbury that night , to talk things over . |
| 24 | ‘ And yet when the time came for me to go to her , I hesitated . |
| 25 | Whenever I went to Fisherton Street it was a must for me to go to Pickfords , the carriers for The Great Western Railway , just to gaze in the window , for right in the centre was a beautiful scale model of one of their pantechnicons , some two feet in length . |
| 26 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 27 | He used to call for me to go to school , and that could be an eventful journey because the way led through the Sayers ' farm at West New Houses , and they kept a flock of geese and a bull . |
| 28 | A man I do not wish to write for wants me to go to Vientiane , where virgins are $10 a go , and a woman I do wish to write for says it would never work because she is emotionally involved with me . |
| 29 | ONE AFTERNOON KĀLI BROUGHT THE COWS HOME EARLY AND CAME rushing over to ask me to go to the forest with her to collect a load of pine-needles . |
| 30 | I finally stopped going to school when Charlie did , and Eva arranged for me to go to a college where I could finish my A levels . |