Example sentences of "[pron] 'd like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry V and the second piece I 'd like to do is a contract if … if , that is , we have time . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd like to have a pair of boots like a German officer . |
| 3 | I 'd like to see Father go a round or two with one of them . |
| 4 | I 'd like another one , actually , but I ca n't see it happening now . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 6 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm already past the statutory retirement age and besides , I 've enjoyed being with the people in Harwich so I 'd like to stick with them if I can . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd like to try and do something completely different , but the trouble is , what ? ’ |
| 9 | I 'd like to give her a ring if I may ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd like to take it if I may . |
| 11 | ‘ There are some personal bits and pieces that I 'd like to hang on to but you can chuck the rest , I should think . ’ |
| 12 | I 've got some amazing new music I 'd like you to hear . |
| 13 | You 've had ample time to get your feet under the table by now and one or two things have come up which I 'd like you to pursue . |
| 14 | ‘ Pike , ’ I said to my shop steward , ‘ I 'd like your advice , ’ and explained what had happened . |
| 15 | ‘ And do you know what I 'd like to do ? ’ |
| 16 | I like — I 'd like — to smoothe his eyebrows with my tongue and maybe more besides . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd like to help the small beer producers of Britain more , I 've made a start with cider — I 'm stocking Dunkerton 's cider from Herefordshire ; Ivor really is a man after my own heart , full organic status from the Soil Association . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd like to apologise most sincerely to everyone who was concerned about the advert for the electronic training collar in our July issue . |
| 19 | ‘ For sure I 'd like to win the car , ’ said Lansink , who finished third behind the Whitaker brothers in August 's European Championships on Optiebeurs Felix . |
| 20 | ‘ What I 'd like you to know is that when it was all over and Peter was back from America , the grave-diggers were down here on their bended knees begging him for forgiveness because they knew it was a nasty business and said had they known at the time they 'd have had nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd like to be able to say yes I do , but I left so long ago . |
| 22 | I ca n't bring them here although I 'd like to , and I ca n't be with them safely . |
| 23 | Personally , I 'd like to bring back Sir Geoffrey Howe . |
| 24 | ‘ But as much as I 'd like to continue playing for the North , I suddenly thought there 's more to life than sitting on the M1 . |
| 25 | Marvel at The Little Woman Behind The Man : ‘ I 'd like to sing a song fer a special girlfriend who 's kinda important to me . ’ |
| 26 | There was a nice-looking American at the next table , however , so I asked him whether he was a drug-fiend , dealing in human misery , in which case , I said , I 'd like some Ecstasy . |
| 27 | Anyway I 'd like to read it . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd like to very much . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd like to do medicine . ’ |
| 30 | I just said what I 'd like to do , ’ she said brokenly , with bitterness . |