Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must like the real Gabriel . |
| 2 | This picture goes straight to my heart ; I should like to lean against that tree between the old man and the girl and listen while the youth played . |
| 3 | To close , I should like to quote from a source that especially some of us find more authoritative than a business man . |
| 4 | I should like to deal briefly with the most important of these . |
| 5 | In conclusion I should like to ask the author if the chest had a bottom . |
| 6 | Occasionally , when he came back to Cambridge in later years , and especially when he came back to help the university elect another professor of divinity , he would be nostalgic , and say , ‘ I should like to have another go at being regius professor , . |
| 7 | The Plowden Report on Control of Public Expenditure contained , amongst other nuggets of wisdom , the following sentence which I should like to take as my starting-point : ‘ The social changes of the last fifteen years have altered the incidence of hardship , so that there now may well be excessive social services for some purposes and inadequate ones for others . ’ |
| 8 | The institutionalisation of the social services is an interesting study in its own right , especially for Tories , who are the connoisseurs of institutions , and I should like to offer some case histories . |
| 9 | In a letter to Henry Savage on 2 December 1913 he writes : ‘ I should like to know why nearly every man that approaches greatness tends to homosexuality , whether he admits it or not ’ ( Letters , 1 15 ) . |
| 10 | Now I should like the name and address of the authority who employ you , the name of your landlady and that of the school in which you 've been teaching . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ There is one more point I should like to make . |
| 12 | I wanted to say that it was not a question of ‘ letting ’ Aunt Louise do anything ; I wanted to say I should like to see anyone trying to stop her from doing anything she had set her heart on . |
| 13 | ‘ I know ; sometimes I feel as if I should like to knock all their heads together . ’ |
| 14 | I should like Alida , she thought , I should be kind to her — I will be kind to her . |
| 15 | ‘ Then , with your permission , I should like to come and see Mrs Thorne myself . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I should like some more custard . ’ |
| 17 | I should like to live in a community , Eleanor Thorne decided , I should like to taste the fruits of life in a small home , a retirement home , an old people 's house , whatever it might be called . |
| 18 | I should like to live in a community , Eleanor Thorne decided , I should like to taste the fruits of life in a small home , a retirement home , an old people 's house , whatever it might be called . |
| 19 | I should like the opportunity of starving and beating you to a pulp . |
| 20 | I should like to attend . ’ |
| 21 | I should like to reiterate those comments to you now as I believe they remain relevant : 1 ) Control the duration of play by an ice hockey-type clock to prevent time-wasting. 2 ) Players to have their names on the back of their shirts . |
| 22 | ‘ I should like to ask Mr Michell and Miss Bailey to c-come to t-tea if they would . |
| 23 | ‘ I should like to ask them . |
| 24 | One last thing — I should like my letters to be returned — all my letters without fail — not because I do not trust your honour , but because they are mine , now , because they are no longer yours . |
| 25 | ‘ I should like to marry Tory when I grow up , ’ he told Marie decisively during a rainy afternoon which drove the children in to the chilly shelter of the Aberknowe kitchen . |
| 26 | I should like to think that they evolved together . |
| 27 | I should like to add the rider , ‘ for the joy and well-being of those who dwell therein ’ . |
| 28 | For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living . |
| 29 | ‘ A call I should like , ’ said Dorothy , with some emphasis , ‘ but Ray seems to be inviting himself and Kathleen to stay here for a night or two . ’ |
| 30 | I should like one — h 'm — very much . ’ |