Example sentences of "[verb] like to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was asked if he had known about the attrocities committed under Stalin in the 1930s , and whether he would have liked to be returned to the Soviet Union labelled traitor at the end of the war . |
| 2 | ‘ I would n't have liked to be returned to Britain at the end of the war labelled ‘ traitor ’ , ' he said . |
| 3 | DAAN VAN DER MEULEN is best known in English-speaking circles as the first reliable explorer of the Wadi Hadhramaut in South Africa , a little-known , wild region , riven by tribal feuds , hardly explored , and fraught with danger for the outsider ; though he himself would probably have liked to be remembered equally for his services in the Dutch colonial administration in Sumatra . |
| 4 | Oh , how I should have liked to be you ! ’ |
| 5 | If the Eastern District was less successful in some respects than it would have liked to be , it was not for want of trying . |
| 6 | He would n't have liked to be doing this alone . |
| 7 | When Merry blows it in the Shire the revolution against sloth and shabbiness and Saruman- ‘ Sharkey ’ is on : no doubt Tolkien would have liked to be able in his own person to do the same . |
| 8 | It is my one great regret about this whole sorry business that at this crucial time in the Government 's fortunes , when I should so much have liked to be seen as a tower of strength , I am perceived by some as a point of weakness . |
| 9 | We would all have liked to be able to eat normally at meals and not to have to hit each other to be first in the breakfast queue . |
| 10 | Comrade Andrew said he would have liked to be present , only he would be away . |
| 11 | She would have liked to be nearer to the panel , but she doubted her ability to kneel or squat in the spacesuit . |
| 12 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
| 13 | He would have liked to be able to confront and examine his own previous self . |
| 14 | Like a Shakespearian monarch he would have liked to be able to send the guilty ones straight to the scaffold , to be despatched on a block still steaming with the blood of the last condemned prisoner . |
| 15 | The barge-dwellers , creatures neither of firm land nor water , would have liked to be more respectable than they were . |
| 16 | ‘ You mean he would n't have liked to be an invalid having been so healthy all his life ? ’ |
| 17 | I should have liked to be able to look forward to seeing him , but he said he did n't know how the evening would turn out . ’ |
| 18 | My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition would have liked to be here this evening because I know well that he has been a tremendous support to my hon. and learned Friend and his family in many small and touching ways , which I know have been deeply appreciated . |
| 19 | Hill said : ‘ I would have liked to be on the front row , but I think fourth is a pretty good place to be . |
| 20 | He made her angry , but subconsciously she would have liked his approval , would have liked to be on the same terms with him as Joanna was with Ian . |
| 21 | Gwendolen did like to be beside the seaside . |
| 22 | I do like to be able to pick a fish up by its head , ’ William Black said , waving a sea bass in rigor mortis at me , before going on to inspect its gills . |
| 23 | Oh , we do like to be beside the seaside . |
| 24 | They do like to be paid . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You see , Aurora , ’ he murmured , ‘ I was right — you do like to be stroked . ’ |