Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] to be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a meeting of the Parish Council on 16th July and I should like to be able to bring your reply to that meeting . |
| 2 | At least I 'll have to be able to give some reason why I suspected him . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah I 'd love to be able |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd like to be able to say yes I do , but I left so long ago . |
| 5 | Instead of putting them down for the afternoon , I 'd like to be able to do something with them . |
| 6 | So of course I said how much I 'd like to be able to play my guitar like a saxophone , and he said , ‘ Yeah — and vice versa . ’ |
| 7 | They should encourage the client to commit him/herself to something specific , i.e. , ‘ I 'd like to stop having panic attacks ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to be able to catch the train up to London ’ , or , ‘ I 'd like to understand and cope more effectively with my anxiety symptoms ’ , or , ‘ I 'd like to be more relaxed giving presentations at work ’ . |
| 8 | I 'd like to be able to overcome that feeling that it was a problem to everybody else . |
| 9 | you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd like to be able to convince him that it was n't that mob that took a shot at him . ’ |
| 11 | Just for once I 'd like to be able to do something properly , but I never will . |
| 12 | I 'd like to be able to spend some time in Japan , which I find very beautiful and relaxing . ’ |
| 13 | erm I 'd like to be able to present something in front of me which prompts me a bit better than I do at the moment I tend to get lost in what 's in front of me . |
| 14 | Ah well I 'd like to be able to pay for what I want too you know . |
| 15 | That is when I would hope to be able to draw upon this philosophy and see the bad times through . |
| 16 | I would hope to be able to spell out my vision , and outline some proposed developments , at a future Library open meeting sometime soon . |
| 17 | I I would hope to be able to party conference probably only which would mean turning up either Friday night or Saturday morning . |
| 18 | Although I would love to be able to take regular trips to the countryside , I am often unable to indulge myself in this luxury and so instead I choose to walk and cycle through Richmond Park in London . |
| 19 | ‘ I would love to be able to do something creative like that . ’ |
| 20 | I would like to be able to attend a gathering with all the sporting greats who have provided hours and hours of exciting achievements . |
| 21 | Q I would like to be able to make a neckline that looks neat , so that when I do a neckband and fold it to the inside , the actual neckline looks good . |
| 22 | I would like to be able to buy materials with confidence . |
| 23 | Q I would like to invest in a gravel cleaner that removes detritus without syphoning off water , as I would like to be able to clean the gravel in between regular changes . |
| 24 | And I would like to be able to include it . |
| 25 | I would like to be able to find at least an oddment of eroticism . |
| 26 | Others may be perfectly sanguine about such bedfellows , personally , I would like to be able to choose another form of political participation . |
| 27 | ‘ My — my English is not too good , you understand , but I would like to be able to talk to you for a while . ’ |
| 28 | Plus within my environmental thing I would like to be able to see if we can get four areas within the school and what I was thinking about , not the big areas outside in the gardens etcetera but do you know as you walk along from our corridor up past the dining hall and there 's that little bit of enclosed space |
| 29 | Mrs in her statement said that , quote , although my husband and I would like to be able to care for Anna Jane as long as possible , I accept that the last six years have taken their toll on us and the reality is that it 's unlikely that we will be able to provide the same level of care and same level of care and outside carers are required , unquote . |
| 30 | I have already quoted Mrs in her statement brackets C forty eight , saying although my husband and I would like to be able to care for Anna Jane as long as possible , I accept the last six years have taken their toll on us both and in reality it 's unlikely that we will continue to be able to provide the same level of care and outside is required , unquote . |