Sentence examples for intending to read from inspiring English sources

In 1971 I arrived at university intending to read engineering and economics.

I am intending to read J Anthony Lukas's Common Ground (Vintage), a Pulitzer-winning book first published in the mid 1980s about race and class in Boston.

Then, one night, I went to bed with a bottle of wine and picked up A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor, something I'd been intending to read for years.

I must admit, I've been more than a little slow with keeping up with the Divergent franchise – I'd been intending to read the book long before the film was released!

The system is broken when management is pulling a share of the vote worthy of Kim Jong Il.Robert Osten BostonChina's expurgated versionSIR – I thought your readers would be interested to learn that I bought a copy of The Economist at Shanghai airport intending to read the article on the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen listed in the contents ("Silence on the square", May 30th).

So I intend to read up more about her.

He intends to read a book and wave.

At her homecoming reading, she intends to read a passage from the book that involves Austin.

I had not intended to read aloud, but the poems got the best of me.

But my hunch is that when she asks, she intends to read the article.

"I had always intended to read 'Les Misérables' in French, and I managed that," she said.