Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd have liked to try the LSE with Lowden 's new preamp system complete with volume and treble/bass controls on the upper bout , but none were available at the time and we 've had to make do with the non-controlled version . |
| 2 | But then , if IRS had wanted to be scrupulously honest , they 'd have had to call the compilation ‘ A Cynical Attempt To Cash In On R.E.M . 's Current Popularity By Fobbing Off Yet Another Collection of Old Songs As Some Kind Of Definitive Statement ’ . |
| 3 | If I 'd have refused to rejoin the army they 'd have stopped my pension , and that 's the only income we have . |
| 4 | They 're the side of Freud , that has tended to be ignored , even by the people you would 've expected to take the greatest notice of them . |
| 5 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 6 | He poured wine and brought it across the room to Owen 's chair , pressing him back brusquely when he would have risen to receive the cup . |
| 7 | Further and/or alternatively , the judge said that under the provisions of article 13 of the Convention he considered that there was a grave risk that the return of the child would place him in an intolerable situation , and said that on that ground also he would have declined to order the return of the child . |
| 8 | He would check it , if he needed to , but he could not at the moment see why Morgan would have wanted to kill the daughter to whom he had plainly been so devoted . |
| 9 | ‘ If I had done all six , my new film would have got in the way and I never would have wanted to hold the Darling Buds cast up . |
| 10 | Privily he would have liked to enjoy the fun but his heart was already labouring against the cold . |
| 11 | She would have liked to take the girl in her arms and hold her for a long time . |
| 12 | I would have liked to take the Crusades as my special subject , but my inadequacy in Latin deterred me . |
| 13 | I would have liked to see the bungalow demolished on TV so that people who violate the laws will know in future what can happen . ’ |
| 14 | Many others , however , ( and it 's believed this group included Orkney Islands Council ) would have liked to see the family leave South Ronaldsay altogether . |
| 15 | At a celebration dinner last night to mark the achievements of the century-long partnership between Essex County Council and Essex colleges , LEA chairman Ian Abbey toasted the future.He would have liked to see the LEA retain a greater input in further education , he said , but he wished the colleges to go forward in a spirit of goodwill . |
| 16 | Mrs Cameron said yesterday that she would have liked to see the university medical school represented on the board . |
| 17 | This was strong language , and must have swayed many who would have liked to uphold the religious tradition of burying the body whole to await resurrection . |
| 18 | Perhaps the hon. Gentleman is one of those who would have liked to sign the amendment . |
| 19 | Tolkien would have liked to hear the horns of Rohan blow , and watch the Black Breath of inertia dissolve from his own country . |
| 20 | He would have liked to hear the figure of his salary ; but just as he was nervously about to sound that note the little boy came back — the little boy Mrs Moreen had sent out of the room to fetch her fan ( 3 ) He came back without the fan , only with the casual observation that he could n't find it . |
| 21 | They are either finite that clauses ( although the conjunction that may be omitted : " He had known [ that ] the poor child was not robust " ( ii ) ) ; or else infinitive clauses ( " He would have liked to hear the figure of his salary " ( 3 ) ) . |
| 22 | These express the content of Pemberton 's inner consciousness : " Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart " ( 10 ) : " he would have liked to hear the figure of his salary " ( 3 ) . |
| 23 | The missive was handed to the Professor , who hesitated to send it on ; he would have liked to pay the bill , but it was not certain what other extravagances the young woman would incur . |
| 24 | No doubt there had long been extreme Gregorians who would have liked to abolish the homage of ecclesiastical landholders for ecclesiastical lands . |
| 25 | Doctor Lovell , who knew both women slightly , suspected that she was brow-beaten by the dominating Ella and would have liked to try the effects of an iron tonic on Dimity 's languid pallor . |
| 26 | Even those in the Britain of the 1980s who would have liked to privatise the last municipal loo were n't too bothered about the Hops Marketing Board . |
| 27 | Most of all Trent would have liked to know the power structure and the brains behind Louis . |
| 28 | Two hours would have sufficed to embark the men in Cherbourg Harbour , after a previous rehearsal . |
| 29 | ‘ I would have loved to join the elitist few who have made 500 League appearances and , but for my spell in the Conference and my long list of injuries , I probably would have done it , ’ added McDonough , who netted 89 goals in 460 league games . |
| 30 | A villager who had played in the open fields as a boy , or watched the sheep in the common pastures , would have lived to see the modern landscape of his parish completed and matured , the roads all made , the hedgerow trees full grown , and new farmhouses built out in the fields where none had ever been before . |