Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb mod] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | My question to Mr which he might like to comment on in his his summing up , is we 've heard about the forthcoming meeting which you 're going to arrange with the district council 's , how soon would you be able to make progress ? |
| 2 | It was suggested that the plaster should stay on for between four and six weeks after which he might like to think of building up its strength . |
| 3 | That was a challenge which he would like to undertake . |
| 4 | The albums also showcase his production skills , although that 's something which he would like to change . |
| 5 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 6 | Er Madam Speaker , I I agree with er the honourable gentleman that it 's extremely important that the various agencies do play a part in working together to ensure effective action with minimum bureaucracy and I know that the honourable gentleman has been anxious to ensure that that happens in his own constituency and his own area where he is dealing with the problems of high unemployment er and the fall out from the closures of pits in his area and if the honourable gentleman has any specific er er measures which he would like us to look at then I 'd be very happy to consider those . |
| 7 | I ask them what he might like eating ; some suggest eating car tyres and drinking oil . |
| 8 | The People 's Daily tells the Chinese what they are supposed to believe ; Mr Yang tells foreigners what he would like them to believe . |
| 9 | This means someone who knows what makes an artist tick and what he would like — a father confessor or counsellor if you like ’ . |
| 10 | Then Ron said : ‘ I asked Mr Mack what he would like next . |
| 11 | What he would like would be someone like Burkett to row , someone like Sylvia to fix the bait and himself to steer . |
| 12 | What he would like even more would be to own the fine boat , the means to support the boat ; and the further means to enjoy a style of life which could so easily include a fine boat , because that would surely embrace fine horses , fine coaches , fine clothes : Wealth . |
| 13 | He closed his eyes and went through in detail what he would like to do to the curly-haired tart . |
| 14 | I felt rather as I should if , on my asking him what he would like for lunch , he had replied ‘ thriftiness ’ , or ‘ thirty-seven degrees Centigrade ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I said what I required from an adaptation and he said what he would like . |
| 16 | The worst thing for my son is that what he would like to do more than anything else in all the world is to be able to read like other people . |
| 17 | The nurse asks him what he 'd like for lunch . |
| 18 | That may be what he 'd like to say , but the single preferential vote makes it impossible . |
| 19 | On Father 's Day I think what he 'd like best is to go shopping and then he 'll take me out , to Dunstable Downs to see the gliders . ’ |
| 20 | What he 'd like best is to stay in bed on Father 's Day . |
| 21 | He 's the kind of musician he admires because he 's not confined to one kind of music and is willing to extend people 's perception of that music and that 's what he 'd like to do . |
| 22 | have to tell Bob whatever he might like to talk about that he turns it to the Poll Tax , the fact of the matter is that the Poll Tax is nothing to do with Oxfordshire County Council . |