Example sentences of "[subord] she [modal v] like to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A GIRL in Ilford was asked if she would like to be a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 2 | He asks a young girl if she would like to be Alice in Wonderland . |
| 3 | I want to ask Miss Everdene if she 'd like to be married . ’ |
| 4 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 5 | Of Nick , because she would like to be sitting there , she was n't too big . |
| 6 | In the rickshaw on the way back from that morning 's tolly I asked Vimla whether she would like to be reborn as a hijra in her next life . |