Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I merely wish to draw attention to the long chain of wrongly dated groups of pottery , each in turn dependent on the other , all the result of the false assumption that a few coins were contemporary with this deposit , whereas they were either residual or still in circulation , and in neither case have a relevance in establishing a terminus post quem . |
| 2 | At present I only wish to draw attention to a possible ambiguity in a crucial move . |
| 3 | This meant that people were prepared to offer me a sequence of positions in which I only had to do research without having to lecture . |
| 4 | I only want to do daddy 's pyjamas for the hospital |
| 5 | It is for cases of this kind , where the evidence shows that there was active persuasion rather than compassionate assistance to someone already determined to commit suicide , that a substantial maximum penalty is thought necessary . |
| 6 | ‘ I just like to have fun and I like to hang out with people who like to have fun . |
| 7 | I just wanted to say thank-you for Arthur 's meat . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ No , I just wanted to say goodbye in person . ’ |
| 9 | She said I just wanted to commit suicide . |
| 10 | And I just wanted to play guitar for whatever reason . |
| 11 | I just need to draw attention to the fact that the erm Selby have given us a a very clear explanation of their unemployment problems and the difficulties they 're facing and erm their th th their solution being er the allocations that they 're suggesting which obviously I do n't agree with . |
| 12 | I just have to get outdream before the kicking scene comes along . ’ |
| 13 | I just want to live life to the full you know , enjoy myself , go round , you know . |
| 14 | I just want to draw attention to three major components within the committee report . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't want to talk about right or wrong , I just want to discuss business with you . |
| 16 | ‘ Now I just want to get Christmas over with . |
| 17 | At this time George was in educational work and with no parish responsibilities I somehow volunteered to make tea at a keep-fit class which the local W.I. wanted to start . |
| 18 | And only now , two years after my return , am I finally beginning to make sense of my experience there . |
| 19 | Later , Broderick admits that he was drawing on his own feelings about the death of his actor seven years ago , just as his career was taking off ( ‘ He watched everything I did , he was my big influence , and when I finally started to get work , he never got to see it ’ ) . |
| 20 | So when he rehearsed the scene he based it on his experience at the chemist 's , an example of his always having to make contact with a real , lived emotion . |
| 21 | I always had to have mine with me , you got no babysitters then , you 'd got nowt . |
| 22 | Ranging from The Tallis Scholars latest , the completely inappropriate in this context Lamentations of Jeremiah , via Nigel Kennedy 's ‘ Just listen ’ , some of Sir Thomas Beecham 's classic lolli-pops , Carreras singing Verdi and de Falla , Ralph Downes at his Royal Festival Hall organ and John Harle 's saxophonic modern jazz tribute to Duke Ellington and , because I always like to include pianoforte , the début ( and very fine EMI Germany ) recording of the remarkable 21 years young , Lars Vogt . |
| 23 | I always wanted to play football in England and now I have the chance . |
| 24 | I always wanted to have gallery openings on the same day but Annely Juda did n't . |
| 25 | I always wanted to study art there , but it 'll have to be London now , I suppose — if it 's anywhere ! |
| 26 | ‘ I always forget to bring music . ’ |
| 27 | Come to think of it , I always seem to have baby owls in my bedroom . |
| 28 | Still , it was the hangover of that piece of moral cowardice at Lochgair station , along with everything else , that led to me feeling so profoundly awful with myself that evening ( after the train finally did get into Queen Street and I walked back , soaked and somehow no longer hungry , in the rain to the empty flat in Grant Street ) , that mum had to call me there , because I had n't been able to bring myself to phone her and dad … and I still managed to feign sleep and a little shame and a smattering of sorrow and reassure her as best I could that really I was all right , yes of course , not to worry , I was fine , thanks for calling … and so of course after that felt even worse . |
| 29 | I still had to do homework when I got back home because nobody knew how quickly the floods would disappear so there was still the possibility of school tomorrow . |
| 30 | After midnight , there would be a family get-together at my parents ' house ; I still wanted to take part in it , however far from home I was . |