Example sentences of "he [vb mod] like [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ' ’ He may like you to tell him that . ’
2 But he 's my father 's cousin , and very poor , so he 'd like me to die .
3 When it was in the oven , I asked him if he 'd like me to clean up , wash the pastry board etc , and for the first time he let me .
4 One evening he said he 'd like me to fetch him the following morning , as he wanted to make some bread .
5 ‘ Tealtaoich is far braver than he 'd like you to think , ’ said Feradach .
6 Although she obviously enjoys the physical stuff , he would like her to bring some spiritual qualities to the performance .
7 Speaking through his secretary , the Right Reverend Peter Ball says he would like everyone to know of his immense gratitude for their overwhelming support .
8 In Douglas 's defence , Jean Simmons once told me , ‘ When Stanley came on he said he would like me to do it , and Kirk seemed to be happy about that . ’
9 Ask him if he would like me to send him a print of his hut , Odd-Knut .
10 I know he would like me to send you his regards .
11 One of my constituents that I read in the newspaper about the erm , the green way in which the party should be moving , and said that erm , he would like me to express my disquiet to and I thought this , perhaps this would be quite a useful place to his disquiet , but Council tax money is being spend on this sort of erm , work when there are far more urgent erm , services needed in the County , and he would much rather have the highways , er , money from , which is now going into the Environment to go into highways , erm , so as er , Chairman council , I 'm passing his comments on to you , through this committee .
12 The People 's Daily tells the Chinese what they are supposed to believe ; Mr Yang tells foreigners what he would like them to believe .
13 He would like it made clear that the line is not a public right of way , but he does not object to access under suitably controlled circumstances .
14 He feels it 's a complete waste of money , and he would like it to go , please .
15 He would like us to get married , but I 've said that would make things very awkward for you .
16 Er Madam Speaker , I I agree with er the honourable gentleman that it 's extremely important that the various agencies do play a part in working together to ensure effective action with minimum bureaucracy and I know that the honourable gentleman has been anxious to ensure that that happens in his own constituency and his own area where he is dealing with the problems of high unemployment er and the fall out from the closures of pits in his area and if the honourable gentleman has any specific er er measures which he would like us to look at then I 'd be very happy to consider those .
17 Either he is as simple and as straightforward as he would like us to believe , or he is , as many who have been around him think , so infinitely and deviously smart that , like a fox , he just ca n't be captured .
18 I think he would like us to have a more commercial sound but that is not really what we want , ’ says Gedge .
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