Example sentences of "would [verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd have liked to plump for the Algarve but , he said wistfully , you do go over the £1,000 . |
| 2 | She would have liked to go for a long walk past the charming wedding-cake buildings that lined the promenade , but although it was only teatime , it was already too dark to see anything . |
| 3 | Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat , that he felt sorry for her left on her own , but she lacked either her grandmother 's grace or her mother 's energy , so she did not offer him tea . |
| 4 | Adam would have preferred to phone for a hire car but Lewis would n't hear of it . |
| 5 | But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah . |
| 6 | The advantage to the bank is that it has the use of a deposit for a fixed period , but , because of the flexibility given to the lender , at a slightly lower price than it would have had to pay for a normal time deposit . |