Example sentences of "[vb mod] like [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the way , landlord , my friend and I should like to hire a room here tomorrow evening , for about an hour , from seven-thirty . |
| 2 | Certainly I should like to see a branch in Leicester . |
| 3 | At this point , I should like to clarify a question or two which the reader may find puzzling , such as anti-semitism . |
| 4 | " I should like to visit a boutique , " said Heinrich . |
| 5 | Q : We should like to spend a holiday touring Scotland but , as neither of us drives , we are thinking of joining a coach tour . |
| 6 | And then I should like to buy a cow perhaps and maybe a pig . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I should like to buy a sponge before they all go . ’ |
| 8 | I should like to suggest a way in which it is possible to give something for nothing . |
| 9 | I should like to make a couple of points about the Bill 's two substantive provisions before turning to its hidden agenda . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , ’ said Dyson , chewing hard , ‘ 1 must admit that I should like to make a name for myself , just for its own sake . ’ |
| 11 | Therefore , I should like to make a suggestion , which I know will be regarded as special pleading . |
| 12 | With permission , Mr. Speaker , I should like to make a statement on public expenditure in Scotland . |
| 13 | With permission , Mr. Speaker , I should like to make a statement on the European Council in Maastricht which I attended with my right hon. Friends the Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 14 | With permission , Mr. Speaker , I should like to make a statement about the Government 's legislative intentions , following the consultation on the Green Paper ’ Industrial Relations in the 1990s ’ , which was published in July last year . |
| 15 | With permission , Mr. Speaker , I should like to make a statement about President Yeltsin 's visit to London on 30 January and about the special meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on 31 January . |
| 16 | ‘ Accepting — if I am to consent , I should like to make a condition or two — ‘ |
| 17 | 'I think I should like to have a look at it , ’ says Serafin very politely , ‘ if I might . ’ |
| 18 | I should like to have a ride down and see that new bridge now . |
| 19 | She had hated the pity she thought that she saw in her mama and papa 's eyes , and when her papa had suggested that she might like to spend a year in London with her Uncle Orrin , be presented at court , meet his old friend the Prince of Wales , now King Edward VII , again , she had agreed with alacrity — she , who had hated being parted from her mama and papa . |
| 20 | Residence Elena has a small lake where guests might like to take a swim , except on Thursdays , Saturdays and Sundays when they are invited to use the lake for a little fishing . |
| 21 | The date was first fixed as the 13th July , in International Eisteddfod week , as I thought members might like to take a look at the eisteddfod after a ride on the train . |
| 22 | Mrs Smythe looked sympathetic and said : ‘ I was thinking , your husband 's such a kind gentle person — he might like to do a bit of voluntary work . |
| 23 | Alternatively , you might like to choose a bath made from vitreous-enamelled , pressed steel , which looks like cast iron , but is n't so heavy , and is much cheaper . |
| 24 | If you are the stay-at-home type you might like to choose an exercise book or tape that covers strength and suppleness exercises of the kind we have described . |
| 25 | She suggested I might like to write a letter to head office . |
| 26 | For example the question ‘ Would you like to become a doctor and work in a hospital ? ’ is a double question because the respondent might like to become a doctor , but not work in a hospital . |
| 27 | As a final touch , you might like to place a vase of fresh flowers in the room ; this will greatly enhance the atmosphere . |
| 28 | He might like to book a fortnight 's holiday , starting 10 April , rather than meet Health Secretary Robin Cook . |
| 29 | They might like to make a family of their own with fewer members , and a simple house in which they can live . |
| 30 | It seems they might like to get a lot of things . |