Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] would like [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The idea has proved popular among villagers , many of whom would like to see a return to the days when they could safely leave their doors unlocked .
2 We 're looking for six pairs of women — friends , mother and daughter , sisters , it does n't matter — both y of whom would like to have a radical new haircut , maybe a perm , or even a change of colour .
3 If groups of , say , 50 to 100 people were to be asked how many of them would like to see some deregulation on Sunday , only about half would put up their hands ; the other half would want to keep Sunday special .
4 I said that if any of them would like to come and see me at home , I would explain exactly what was happening .
5 And on H Little H and I 'm skipping through them because I 'm sure a lot of you would like to get to the tea pot .
6 So , if any of you would like to come and see us at the salon we will both be there and very happy to see and answer any of your questions .
7 Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that many of us would like to ask how it is possible to contemplate spending an extra £38 billion without increasing taxes , increasing unemployment and increasing prices ?
8 ‘ I think I am talking for us all when I say that we will gladly work for nothing , just until matters improve , we have all been so happy here at Summer Lodge and each and every one of us would like to stay with you wherever you go . ’
9 And without being alarmist , most of us would like to know more about the effect of years of chemical bombardment on our bodies .
10 Many of us would like to know what happens to the information that is collected during questioning when there is no subsequent conviction .
11 It 's not something that we do two hundred times a week , but most of us would like to try .
12 Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches .
13 Most of us would like to think of growing old gracefully , enjoying the years of retirement , surrounded by family and friends … but as we get older , it becomes more and more difficult to get about and meet others .
14 All right then , how many of your would like to try a session in a flotation tank ?
15 Another possibility is that we call statements expressing attitudes with this particular sort of stridency moral statements and allow as ethical all statements which express attitudes towards conduct of a certain special seriousness and pervasiveness in their influence on one 's own behaviour and such as one would like to find widely shared , but not necessarily to have supported by a social sanction .
16 There 's also this thing which is called agricultural fundamentalism right and the most developing c , most developed countries , most of the population live in urban areas and the they see erm er rural areas as being sort of the backbone of society , sort of the salt of the earth type of element in society that although they do n't participate in themselves would like to maintain right and so even consumers may well be would not want see erm agriculture obliterated from er , from their country right because they like the products that erm that agriculture produces and they think that you can of erm destroying of the agricultural industry would , would pose an unacceptable burden on the fabric of rural society and as a result are quite happy to see protectionism er fo , for that industry .
17 ‘ There are undoubtedly people around who would like to bounce things in that direction ( towards fees ) . ’
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