Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [prep] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He would have liked to be able to confront and examine his own previous self . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They were beautiful , and she would have loved to be able to buy one , but even the simplest was far beyond her pocket . |