Example sentences of "would have liked to " 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 | If the Eastern District was less successful in some respects than it would have liked to be , it was not for want of trying . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sometimes he would have liked to unburden himself to somebody , but his officers and men had their own problems . |
| 5 | I would have liked to though . |
| 6 | She was surrounded by this golden aura which stopped men going any further , whether they would have liked to or not , it never happened . |
| 7 | ‘ No , though I 'm sure they would have liked to ( laughs ) ! |
| 8 | Comrade Andrew said he would have liked to be present , only he would be away . |
| 9 | She would have liked to be nearer to the panel , but she doubted her ability to kneel or squat in the spacesuit . |
| 10 | At the only time in his life when he would have liked to he was so crushed by doubt and diffidence that he kept his eyes scrupulously trained upon the ground , or the table in front of him , or the wall behind the shoulder of the person concerned . |
| 11 | He would have liked to be able to confront and examine his own previous self . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The barge-dwellers , creatures neither of firm land nor water , would have liked to be more respectable than they were . |
| 14 | I would have liked to , ’ she added wistfully . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Hill said : ‘ I would have liked to be on the front row , but I think fourth is a pretty good place to be . |
| 17 | She would n't have minded screwing him-she thought she would have liked to — but it would not be an issue . |
| 18 | Bartocci might be convinced of his conspiracy theory , but Zen just could n't take it seriously , much as he would have liked to . |
| 19 | Carol distracted the whitecoated male assistant , exercising commendable control by not kneeing him in the nuts as she no doubt would have liked to . |
| 20 | IBM was unable to know everything about everything , much as it would have liked to — so it had to learn to cooperate . |
| 21 | 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 . |