Example sentences of "intention of [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no intention of getting himself into a stew about that . |
| 2 | ‘ It wo n't kill your Dad at all , ’ he said , as he fished in his pocket , ‘ because I have no intention of getting you into trouble . ’ |
| 3 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 4 | The kitchen window was still open and I climbed in after crushing another handful of lavender with the intention of taking it to bed with me for an invigorating sleep , if such a thing is possible . |
| 5 | My life is here , and I have no intention of sharing it with you , not if you offered me an Empire , let alone a castle in Scotland and the fortune of a man whom I despised and who I warned you would treat you badly . |
| 6 | She relaxed , then became aware of disappointment from the knowledge that he had not had the slightest intention of kissing her after all . |
| 7 | Having created the luxury 4 × 4 niche , it has no intention of relinquishing it to recent pretenders in the form of the revised Shogun , G-Wagen and Land Cruiser . |
| 8 | Whole-tone harmony is part of many harmonic systems , is valuable in many circumstances , and is therefore worth a brief study by all composers , even if they have no intention of using it as a complete system themselves . |
| 9 | The challenges facing it were daunting : a considerable proportion of the UN was opposed to its existence ; the predominant political forces in south Korea regarded it simply as providing a veneer of international respectability for the creation of a south Korean state ; north Korea had no intention of helping it in any way and the United States believed the commission should complete its task swiftly and without asking awkward questions . |
| 10 | Now the National Gallery , London , is borrowing the picture , minus the rest of the exhibition , but with the intention of comparing it with other works by Leonardo in their collection . |
| 11 | Nor have I the slightest intention of subjecting you to a close examination of my emotions . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm sorry I kissed you earlier , but I swear on the Bible I 've no intention of ravishing you on the kitchen floor before supper — or any other time . ’ |
| 13 | But here — since he had not the slightest intention of addressing anything but common courtesy towards Miss Skelton — he could allow that sympathy to exercise itself . |
| 14 | The picture passed to her son , John Whitney Payson , who lent it to a university museum in Maine with the intention of bequeathing it to the university in return for eventual tax relief on his estate . |
| 15 | She had no intention of telling him about Ian White , the medical registrar she had dated for over a year and who she had once thought might have come to mean much more in her life . |
| 16 | They 've got no intention of stopping it at |
| 17 | While Brunner naturally had not the remotest intention of supporting anything of this kind , his concern for his own kind of natural theology seemed to Barth to be wholly without adequate defences against it . |
| 18 | I had n't come to this place with the conscious intention of divesting myself of my now cumbersome virginity ; but from the moment I saw the actor again — certainly from the moment his arms went round me and I felt the sense of fond familiarity , of affection rediscovered — I knew it was inevitable that we should , sooner or later , make love . |
| 19 | It was sensitive stuff and he had no intention of discussing it with the Bristol media . |
| 20 | Well , no point in denying it , she took after her mother 's side of the family for looks even if she had her dad 's brains , and Mrs. Pridmore had no intention of exposing her to the temptations of London . |
| 21 | They were married in the Guards ' Chapel , a stone 's throw from Buckingham Palace , on July 4 1973 , and one member of the close-knit circle of Camilla 's friends said : ‘ She believed Charles had lost interest and had no intention of considering her as a wife . |
| 22 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 23 | Rex and Tomlinson 's ( 1979 ) study of Handsworth in Birmingham was undertaken with the intention of discovering something of the relationship of Asian and West Indian immigrants and their children to the class structure of contemporary British society . |
| 24 | In 1968 , the Kittyhawk was purchased with the intention of returning it to flying condition . |
| 25 | A group of Scots taken prisoner at Solway Moss , the earls of Glencairn and Cassillis , lords Fleming , Maxwell , Somerville and others , obtained their release and were sent back to Scotland when they signed a request to Henry that he should take Mary into his care , with the intention of marrying her to his son , the future Edward VI ; their offer that they would help to bring him to power in Scotland , should Mary die , was kept entirely secret . |
| 26 | Flushing slightly , she rested her head back and closed her eyes , not to sleep , but with the deliberate intention of shutting him from her mind . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll wait here , ’ Claudia said with no intention of doing anything of the kind . |
| 28 | He believes the Irish Government has no intention of doing anything about Articles 2 and 3 . |
| 29 | Arnold , at one time headmaster of Eastbourne College , purchased a number of sites with the expressed intention of improving them as bird habitats . |
| 30 | They bought the building two years ago with the intention of turning it into an exhibition space for cultural exchanges between Europe ( mainly France ) and Japan . |