Example sentences of "like [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to thank for the enthusiasm and commitment she has given to her ante-natal classes and I know that past ‘ students ’ will have been greatly reassured during their pregnancies by , appreciated her teaching and enjoyed her sense of humour . |
| 2 | I am standing on platform eleven at London 's Liverpool Street station , listening to a British Rail Tannoy announcement , delivered as dispassionately and routinely as an abattoir attendant 's delivering a bolt through the skull of yet another helpless , terrified , steer : ‘ British Rail would like to apologize for the late running of the six-thirty to Lowestoft . |
| 3 | Right , first of all I 'd like to apologize for the fact that Alan 's report and my report especially the first half , are very similar . |
| 4 | At any rate , at the next ward meeting , he suggested that I might like to stand for the local council . |
| 5 | The English representative on the board asked her whether she 'd like to work for the company in Switzerland , as resident copywriter ( for Jane was bright , though she despised the ‘ profession ’ ) . |
| 6 | A woman who has recovered from a stroke or head injury may decide she would like to work for the first time , as part of the challenge of overcoming her illness . |
| 7 | My sights were wide-ranging " I 'd like to work for the Daily Mirror or the Telegraph , " I informed my friends , as I sank a pint in the way I 'd seen the big-boys do at the time of the by-election . |
| 8 | He 's a Yorkshireman through and through — and he 's already told us he would like to play for the Northern Division . |
| 9 | If not , I would like to apologise for the oversight and thank you on behalf of CPRW . |
| 10 | I understand that you are holding the PAL masters for both parts , which we would like to use for the first run of this title , to get a better quality duplication . |
| 11 | What I 'd like to do for the next twenty minutes of the er of the seminar is talk about client server today . |
| 12 | ‘ Would you like to run for the school ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Would you like to run for the school ? ’ |
| 14 | Tell the customer the total cost of the purchase and ask method of payment she will use ‘ How would you like to pay for the saucepans ? ’ |
| 15 | It 's interesting actually that it says on all the outsides of all the tapes Aston Business School so I 'd just like to say for the benefit of the tape recorder and the British National Corpus , this is where the Business School ends and this is where Psychology takes over . |
| 16 | ‘ I like to look for the distinctive features of a location , features that we can key into to get a synergy of strengths , ’ she says . |
| 17 | He 'd have liked to plump for the Algarve but , he said wistfully , you do go over the £1,000 . |