Example sentences of "[det] [conj] i [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs .
2 You know I always let myself be advised by you , and of course I 'll bow to your judgement on this if I have to
3 Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow .
4 I do n't care about my clothes — I do n't care about the money — I can steal some if I have to .
5 And er , and that was , er go and did this before I went to school .
6 I missed this when I came to your house , ’ Maggie said quietly .
7 R.B. Yes , another teacher mentioned this when I talked to her and I was saying that it seemed to me that it was a blind spot .
8 It began to prey on my mind so much that I went to the casualty department of Charing Cross Hospital .
9 I hope you enjoy your bass playing as much as I intend to !
10 ‘ You mean you want to be alone with me as much as I want to be alone with you ? ’ he enquired .
11 The sea-mail letter arrived this afternoon , and my hands shook so much when I retired to my tent that I could hardly open it …
12 I said well I can do everything in the hotel trade from housemaid to housekeeper to barmaid , the only thing I have n't done is managed one but I could do that if I had to and I done , done booking of the reception and I 've done bar , I 've done diner 's room , I 've done kitchen , I 've done
13 talk like that if I want to .
14 so I 've put that away , I , it ai n't even in my account , Alan 's got that and I said to Alan if I pass this test I shall buy a banger , five hundred quid with this tax money and then put the odd to insurance , if I do n't I 'll leave it where it is , because I , I mean little one will want a holiday and that anyway so I 've kept it for that , but that 's what I intend to do , so I said to Alan if I get a little banger just enough to get me to Tettering and back I was gon na go tech , to do some courses
15 That and I said to Geoff what 's D O B ?
16 I of that and I said to him is that the last one ?
17 And then expand on it , and so I go into each of these and I go to the and I say a few words about each of these particular themes .
18 Do you know all these five tapes and everything , I never swore on these till I talk to you .
19 God bless you all and I hope to be walking alongside you during the seventy fifth year anniversary efforts .
20 ‘ But within half and hour I could not move at all and I went to hospital .
21 It 'd do me and all if I had to .
22 It 'd do me and all if I had to .
23 He 'll hang those innocents in front of us all unless I go to him . ’
24 Was it Monday , no it was yesterday , I was in the loo and I could hear this paper being ripped and I thought oh they 've got one of my club catalogues , I did n't think any more of it and then I could hear Joseph going weee , I thought what the devil 's he got , so went out , Joseph has got the flying circus bus that was meant for Charlotte and him and , Brenda and Charlotte was sharing the , the , garage thing that I 've brought so I thought well now it 's out , well they 're not going to keep all that till I said to him whatever is Father Christmas going to say , I said he 's supposed to be taking these away to bring I said er , what 's Father Christmas gon na say ? , no Ben forget , so I thought while they 're out I could see Joseph 's playing a lot , way with this bus thing , he was having a whale of a time , he thought that was great , so I said to Charlotte I said do you like that bus ?
25 Erm one interesting point about overtime and temps er generally is that temps apparently unl are costing us around about fourteen K with overheads which is a lot more than I believed to be the case .
26 Having said this , let me try to make clear what I do not mean to be claiming in this section , lest I be taken to be arguing for more than I intend to be .
27 ‘ I said more than I meant to , ’ he said .
28 More than I have to anyone else .
29 I mean I do n't want to enhance the cost of that any more than I have to .
30 I do n't wish to offend you any more than I need to … ’
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