Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 2 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 3 | Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it . |
| 4 | In the light of the overall aim , set an immediate end result by answering the question ‘ What result do I want to achieve by the end of this interaction ? ’ |
| 5 | Imagine my shock when , just as I 'd begun thumping the bottom of the big brown pot , I chanced to look inside the bin and there , half buried in rubbish , was Cymbeline 's red plastic teapot . |
| 6 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 7 | later than that , it 's er I mean to go to the crematorium at quarter past eleven , we would n't be back here before twelve o'clock . |
| 8 | ‘ I mean to get to the bottom of it , ’ said Lydia , only without much conviction . |
| 9 | I would like to add that it is only the first of many Platinum Hotels I intend to open throughout the world . ’ |
| 10 | I shall also want to talk with you about the ffruit Trees I intend to plant against the wall next y Pump Court . |
| 11 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's no need to share anything , as I intend to sleep by the fire , ’ she declared firmly , and punctuated her decision by draining her mug and setting it aside . |
| 13 | That 's what I intend to use in the eh . |
| 14 | ‘ I intend to return across the Forth . |
| 15 | ‘ It was a trip of a lifetime and I intend to return to the States self-financed , I expect . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It was the trip of a lifetime and I intend to return to the States — self-financed , I expect . ’ |
| 17 | For lunch I intend to go to the Strawberry Duck pub , Entwhistle , Saturday afternoon is free for shopping in Manchester 's Arndale Centre or whatever and for the evening meal the plan is to go to the new Indian take-away which has opened near Castle Irwell — the ‘ Tandoori Cottage ’ . |
| 18 | Mrs Keating shouted , ‘ I think you 'd better know , I intend to write to the school about this . ’ |
| 19 | Judge Harry Walker , who gave Jim bail yesterday , told him : ‘ I intend to get to the bottom of this . ’ |
| 20 | I intend to concentrate on the two subjects of today 's debate , education and employment . |
| 21 | Because of time , I intend to concentrate on the European dimension . |
| 22 | I intend to start with the Dwarf Angel , and after three months I will put in a very young Regal Tang , which I would keep until it is three inches long . |
| 23 | In this section I intend to focus on the way four of these problems have become interlinked , namely those of underachievement , the concern over indiscipline , and the need for social integration and the employability of particular groups . |
| 24 | ‘ I agreed to stay until the morning . |
| 25 | I failed to turn on the light when the sky grew dark and heavy . |
| 26 | ‘ The fact that he took the 100m individual , when I could n't attempt the hat-trick because I failed to qualify for the event at the US trials through illness , is bound to increase interest when we get it together . |
| 27 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 28 | I suppose I had persuaded myself that sending men to prison was n't something I cared to do for the rest of my life . |
| 29 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 30 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |