Sentence examples for my intending from inspiring English sources

Rather, their gist is that speech acts involve intentional undertaking of a publicly accessible commitment; further, that commitment is not undertaken simply by virtue of my intending to undertake it, even when it is common knowledge that this is what I am trying to do.

John Broome provides an example: suppose I know the hotel is on fire and that the only escape involves my intending to go through the open window, and, though I intend to live, I sit on the windowsill singing happily until the flames consume me.

Three years ago, I had a long argument with my intended.

RACHEL: Chandler, this was not my intended profession.

At the moment, a backhoe on the adjacent property shadows my intended new garden.

Silently, I slipped into my intended victim's room and waited for him to return from the kitchen, where he was raiding the refrigerator for leftovers.

I regularly get my intended £50 or £100 wagers reduced to £7, £6, £5 or even less (the record low offer for a bet is £1.67).

"Why, she is to be married to Ham!" I hid the disappointment of seeing my expectations dashed and agreed with Peggotty that Ham was indeed the right husband for my intended.

My mind reeled as I tried to process the possibility that after all this time, distance and indiscriminate fornication, the frog-legged, compact, 5-foot-4 Russian Lev had been my intended.

In the above example it was nowhere near my intended sense.

My protective father ran a background check on my intended.