Example sentences of "like to have have " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would like to have had Cropnose 's version , but their paths did n't cross , and there was no reason , meantime , why he should seek the King 's mother . |
| 2 | The request that I should receive a consignment of most , if not all , of the issues was obviously impossible to meet ; and although I should much like to have had the ‘ run ’ of Eliot 's bookcase for an afternoon , I felt I could not seek permission , so soon after my arrival at the school , to go to London for that purpose , so I told Eliot that half a dozen well-spaced numbers would suffice for me . |
| 3 | Perhaps I see in him something of the son I would like to have had , but never did . |
| 4 | I should like to have had time to discuss such matters , but the paucity of progress made yesterday , the long speeches and the many amendments which had to be considered left the Government with no option but to move a guillotine motion today . |
| 5 | I would like to have had a good first round match first . |
| 6 | Erm which I think was , disappointed dad because erm I think he would like to have had a word with him . |
| 7 | Dot did n't mind about the toys and she knew she could n't ask for ginger pop because that cost money but she would have liked to have had her victory token back . |
| 8 | Dot would have liked to have had a hand to hold . |
| 9 | The overall effect is that the morally indefensible opportunist appears as a very human figure , a man who would have liked to have had his cake and eaten it and who , forced to make choices , alternates between self-congratulation and a sense of self-betrayal . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd have liked to have had Rickie Crowninshield in my platoon for just five minutes . ’ |
| 11 | They would have liked to have had a baby together , but she lost triplets , was very ill , and it seemed a family was not to be . |
| 12 | Frank and unremorseful about his homosexuality , he never fully resolved his attitude towards it , in part because it denied him the family he would have liked to have had . |
| 13 | I would have liked to have had more departmental meetings where we could all have sat down and discussed it . |
| 14 | He admitted that the settlement was " not what we would have liked to have had . |
| 15 | She would have liked to have had that sort of relationship with her own father , only he had died , and her uncle had definitely had no affinity with the great outdoors . |
| 16 | That is why we did n't , we would of liked to have had it but the cost to put the mains gas in was going to be so enormous |