Example sentences of "would [verb] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The hotel looked good — particularly the room service — but I do n't think I 'd want to have gone through the other things that happened to Kevin unless I had 50,000 policeman and 20,000 doctors with me to make sure I was okay . ’ |
| 2 | The men you 'd want to have on your side |
| 3 | In fact if we were n't doing it as a unison group we 'd probably do it ourselves anyway because of the fact that we 've got nine separate branches and we 'd want to have a bit of erm common , common strategy if you like between the branches anyway . |
| 4 | ‘ Who 'd want to have Barbs around if they did n't have to ? ’ |
| 5 | I think he 'd want to have some kind of little business going where if he wants to he can go off And then he can go off and pick it up and |
| 6 | But under the circumstances I 'd prefer to have news of the ship . ’ |
| 7 | The bedroom upstairs is all ready for my brother , and I 'd prefer to have that floor to myself anyway . |
| 8 | Northerners come across as slightly more chauvinistic : they 'd prefer to have a male bus driver or doctor . |
| 9 | If there 's any possibility of anything to be gained from this operation — and in the absence of the kind of labour you 'd prefer to have on a job like this — I thought an extra pair of hands might be welcome . ’ |
| 10 | Only my wiles as a courtier would preserve me , and I 'd prefer to have something between me and the Colonel 's wrath that was more substantial . |
| 11 | Come on , surely you 'd prefer to have Giggs in your team than any of the above , and If you had him , you 'd stick no.11 on his back and play him ( predominantly ) down the left . |
| 12 | Also , you 'd need to have anonymous ftp in order to get them . |
| 13 | Erm , I 'd need to have a look through . |
| 14 | I 'd like to have a pair of boots like a German officer . |
| 15 | I 'm quite sure she 'd like to have several more children yet — five seems a good number . |
| 16 | I 'd like to have a proper team together right from the start . ’ |
| 17 | And when we 've eaten — whatever 's left to eat — I 'd like to have a pen and some paper . |
| 18 | I 'd like to have a long talk to you about her . ’ |
| 19 | I end up wanting to look thinner ; I 'd like to have a big nose because I am fed up with people telling me mine is ‘ cute' ; I 'd like to have naturally dark eyebrows and eyelashes , so I would n't look like a heroin addict without any make-up on ; straighter teeth , no spots and a better haircut . |
| 20 | I end up wanting to look thinner ; I 'd like to have a big nose because I am fed up with people telling me mine is ‘ cute' ; I 'd like to have naturally dark eyebrows and eyelashes , so I would n't look like a heroin addict without any make-up on ; straighter teeth , no spots and a better haircut . |
| 21 | I 'd like to have a look at this foundry of yours . ’ |
| 22 | But you 'd feel the same if you were my age , the biological clock ticking away — I mean , I 'd like to have children … |
| 23 | Said , ‘ I 'd like to have tomorrow morning to say goodbye to my father and to Laura and having done that , I 'd like to die tomorrow afternoon . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We 'd like to have a relationship with the land , ’ Hailama said , ‘ but we ai n't got no land . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd like to have a look where I 'll be tomorrow . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We 'd like to have you — honestly ! |
| 27 | Now I 've found you , I 'd like to have back the creatures you took from my invert tank for treatment in 1988 . |
| 28 | And at the end of the evening he said , ‘ Give me your number , I 'd like to have it for the future . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd like to have your number ; Jean-Luc Ponty is looking for a guitarist . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd like to have ringlet-type curls ? |