Example sentences of "[noun] she [vb mod] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may subtly encourage in her daughter all the characteristics she would like to express openly herself , but dare not . |
| 2 | She could make all the speeches she would like Tommaso to make , a hundred times over , and yet his awkwardness under her mother 's severity filled her full of pity too , and her chivalrous love returned to warm her and fortify her , suturing the cut that had opened in her earlier at his muteness the night before . |
| 3 | But , as she remembered her meeting with him that next day , she realised that she must be mistaken about his meaning of the word interest and the connotation she would like to put on it . |
| 4 | And apart from these two activities she would like to indulge in more horse-riding . |
| 5 | So far as the housewife is concerned , time limits imposed by factors outside her control mean that the pace of her work is too fast for each task to get the attention she would like to give it . |
| 6 | Also a writer , dancer , and an aspiring actress , Zoe has a firm idea of the kind of films she would like to act in . |
| 7 | She had been noting various titles during Joyce 's discourse ; there was a new book about bats that Edward would want , and one or two things she would like to get hold of herself — the sole perquisite of this trade was a surreptitious early pick of incoming titles before they went on the shelves . |
| 8 | And as I said , I spoke to the supervisor , switchboard supervisor , Di Combes , when we were setting up the course , and asked her what sort of things she would like to put across at a course like this which would make the switchboard 's job easier . |
| 9 | In fact , there were lots of things she 'd like to change about the way she looked , she reflected ruefully . |
| 10 | On the spur of the moment , Matilda decided that the one person she would like to confide in was Miss Honey . |
| 11 | She also asked Pamela to try again during the next week to draw up a list of ways she would like her parents to change . |
| 12 | The gates are , in some way , an expression of anger towards the people she would like to trust . |
| 13 | In the galley , she vented her feelings still further by clashing pans and cooking utensils and listing sotto voce the names she 'd like to call Fenton Marshall , if only she were not so dependent on his good will . |
| 14 | But there 's a sister there called Mary she would like to strangle . |
| 15 | Here was a man she could look up to , a man she should like immensely — if she did n't have so many reasons to dislike him ! |
| 16 | Asked what message she would like to send to him , she said : ‘ I love him . |
| 17 | She listened to his calm voice explaining that he was not available and if she would like to leave a message … but the message she would like to have left was far too complicated , so she rang off without saying anything . |
| 18 | A professional decorator told me years ago that when carrying out domestic painting , he always asked the lady of the house the shade she would like for the finished coat . |
| 19 | Kitty has brought her fiddle today and a merry tune she 'd like to play |
| 20 | and a merry tune she 'd like to play . |
| 21 | She replied that of course she could trust me , but that this time she would like us to meet . |