'V -ing' - Construction 11

Name: the intend doing construction
Description: A person engages in thought about a future activity.
Verbs: anticipate, consider, contemplate, debate, envisage, fantasize, imagine, intend, visualize, count on, figure on, plan on, reckon on
Example: We intended spending most of our time in the north of the island… (BNC)
Membership: cognition; non-attitudinal
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Cognition. Roles: NP1: Cognizer; -ing-clause: Phenomenon
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