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 | She suggested I might like to write a letter to head office . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As a final touch , you might like to place a vase of fresh flowers in the room ; this will greatly enhance the atmosphere . |
| 27 | He might like to book a fortnight 's holiday , starting 10 April , rather than meet Health Secretary Robin Cook . |
| 28 | They might like to make a family of their own with fewer members , and a simple house in which they can live . |
| 29 | It seems they might like to get a lot of things . |
| 30 | erm so no certainly they asked me about it and so on but I think that rather like their food forum they might like to get a communications forum going erm because they 've been thinking about having a Business Club and various other things because they 're involved with the Management Programme and all sorts of things and they maybe going to do some training for heads and people like that |