Example sentences of "would [verb] like [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah 'd have liked to take a look around the Archaeological Museum , but Ah fear we 'd never make it in time through the rush-hour traffic . |
| 2 | I 'd have liked to see some of the famous places , like Rome and Paris and Moscow and South Sea islands and Jamaica and New York . |
| 3 | He 'd have liked to plump for the Algarve but , he said wistfully , you do go over the £1,000 . |
| 4 | I 'd have liked to prolong it by asking you to supper , but … ’ |
| 5 | If there 'd been room , I 'd have liked to print a ring of 18 mutants around the central tree . |
| 6 | But much as she 'd have liked to resist his questioning , the innate honesty in her make-up finally compelled her to answer . |
| 7 | " You 'd have liked to watch that , Grandmother . " |
| 8 | He 'd have liked to have seen Gina reading one of their notes with a penitent expression . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd have liked to have done more with M/M because they 're out on tour now . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd have liked to have had Rickie Crowninshield in my platoon for just five minutes . ’ |
| 11 | I heard him say to Dad how sorry he was about Sister Hannah and how he 'd have liked to have seen her before she was screwed down . |
| 12 | I 'd have liked to have cut the face off of him with a few choice words . |
| 13 | ‘ He 'd have liked to have seen you more often . |
| 14 | At the end Eddie was asked ( now ) what team he 'd have liked to have played for if not Leeds and he said he 'd always followed Celtic 's results . |
| 15 | you 'd have liked to have turned round and say look I do n't wan na do it |
| 16 | Biting back the answer she 'd have liked to make , Shannon raised her eyebrows expectantly . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was right , and he was sorry about it , because he 'd have liked to think his idea had helped them , been taken up so that he could feel part of the activity . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd hoped , like you , that everything would be all right , that I 'd feel differently once the baby came , that I 'd come to like living in the country . |
| 20 | Fun day , more fun than today and today I hope I 've provided some of the ground work ca n't there 's a lot of things I would 've liked to have gone into more detail and generally I do but today there 's just there 's just not enough time in a day to do it . |
| 21 | I would 've liked to have looked after me and kept an eye on the rest with Paul . |
| 22 | The character I would 've liked to have played more than anything else if it had ever been you know , if there was one going now would be Rigsby in Rising Damp . |
| 23 | We would have to like pull the wood through you see |
| 24 | It became in essence the very house that , had his private life been otherwise , he would have liked to live in himself . |
| 25 | However this did not stop us making lists of those quality ‘ prigs ’ we would have liked to eliminate . |
| 26 | And I would have liked to invite you … ’ |
| 27 | Toby would have liked to kick Hilary Frome . |
| 28 | He would have liked to telephone Marshal Guarnaccia who had gone back down to Florence but he did n't want to block the line , and in any case the Marshal had said something about going to the prison . |
| 29 | I would have liked to drink coffee in one of the smoke-filled cafés lining the boulevard , but I did not dare enter . |
| 30 | I would have liked to wear it thirty years later when I travelled in the deserts of southern Arabia , but by then it had been lost . |