Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One matter which I should like to have seen included would almost certainly have merited parliamentary discussion before the inevitable dissolution of this Parliament , which will make this a short Session . |
| 2 | I should like to have had time to discuss such matters , but the paucity of progress made yesterday , the long speeches and the many amendments which had to be considered left the Government with no option but to move a guillotine motion today . |
| 3 | I should like to have found you something nicer to do , but I could n't let you go to people we know nothing about , and Mrs Andrews says that her cousin is sure to take care of you . |
| 4 | I should like to have known more about his views on possible links between social deprivation and suicidal intent , but perhaps that would be a different kind of book . |
| 5 | Whereas now I mean then I could afford to have done it . |
| 6 | ‘ The hotel looked good — particularly the room service — but I do n't think I 'd want to have gone through the other things that happened to Kevin unless I had 50,000 policeman and 20,000 doctors with me to make sure I was okay . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd love to have ridden Party Politics again but there was no question of a choice , ’ he says . |
| 8 | I 'd love to have seen her face when she jumped , ’ McQuaid laughed out loud . |
| 9 | I 'd love to have seen that bastard Himmler 's face . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd hate to have kept you waiting a whole twenty minutes for nothing . ’ |
| 11 | Would those in favour of the amendment I 'm very sorry but er it 's not an automatic right , sorry , I 'd like to have called him but er we 've summed up , what do we do now ? |
| 12 | I 'd like to have seen that . |
| 13 | I 'd like to have bust ‘ im on one last rap before I finished , too . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd like to have married Carole Lombard . |
| 15 | And , and I would expect to have completed that review by March . |
| 16 | ‘ I would love to have seen 400,000 kids coming along to see Kylie on this tour , but it just is not possible , ’ said Waterman . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I would love to have raced at Mondello Park in the European series , but it clashes with the opening round of the British Championship at Knockhill in Scotland and my priority is to learn the British tracks as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | I would like to have discovered what had become of Mr Graham , for although we had not known each other well , I would say we had got on on those occasions we had met . |
| 19 | Winding down this little jet Ferrari was a tremendous anti-climax — I would like to have gone on flying it all week . |
| 20 | I would like to have said , ‘ Yes and it looks like it ’ . |
| 21 | I would like to have said that I thought Mr. Braden should be reminded that there were ladies present , but instead I said , " I do n't know if the ladies enjoy this kind of talk very much . " |
| 22 | £ Well , I think I really had better stop there , and then if you want to ask any questions erm we can go into them , but perhaps I could just mention two things that I would like to have said more about , one was , that you probably know , there were three or two major epidemics in Oxford , of what they call plague , but it was probably a form of typhus , in 1643 and 44 , and a good deal of sickness , I think , still in 1645 , and the other was that there was a very serious fire , which almost certainly arose from these kind of living conditions , because Anthony Wood says it was a soldier roasting pig , erm and I think a lot of cooking went on in very unsuitable situations . |
| 23 | This is not the start in life I would like to have given her . |
| 24 | ‘ I would like to have seen him holding us back with an old sword in his hand . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But I would like to have seen her perform at bona fide concerts to prove her critics wrong . |
| 26 | ‘ I would like to have seen how brave he is with players like Ron Yates and Norman Hunter about . |
| 27 | Personally , I would like to have seen him play Karpov but that seems destined to remain the match that never was . |
| 28 | The sale of David Batty has at least made room for the introduction of Rocky ( something which I would like to have seen earlier given the injury problems of Strach ) and his performances to date have been good although showing signs of the years lay off . |
| 29 | The difficulty is that the Community Charge is insensitive to people 's ability to pay and I would like to have seen er some people go rather more into the possibility of a local income tax . |
| 30 | I was a little disappointed with the film ; I would like to have seen it erm more analytical , a little more hard hitting in terms of looking at what a local radio station does . |