Example sentences of "but i would like [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I know what it 's called but I would like it
2 The formula here is to say : ‘ I understand that you [ state how you think they feel ] but I would like you to … ’
3 We could take this illustration too far — but I would like you to look upon yourselves as conductors , setting the tempo of the class , listening and looking for every discordant note — and for every good one — helping by encouragement — and asking questions , for instance " Are you working as hard as you could ? "
4 But I would like you to tell me how I 'm meant to get away from this house , if I want to go out .
5 But I would like you two , forgive me for not saying your names , to put the other two on hold by keying R star 9 .
6 ‘ Your Grace , I ask your indulgence but I would like us to perform a small mummer 's play , a useful introduction to what we are about to declare . ’
7 I will observe , Chairman , that there are reasonable and honourable and relatively well meaning people who truly believe that they have a natural right to hunt down foxes with dogs indeed to call the dogs hounds and believe that nobody has the right to interfere with their pleasures er , i in press they would no doubt speak of the right of free born Englishmen to do what they like but I 'd like them to consider Chairman , views of what it is right and proper for human beings to do have changed , as readers of John 's diaries will recall , barely three hundred years ago , he saw a woman being burned to death er in London for murdering her husband and people watched and no doubt thought that it was the right of free born Englishmen to enjoy the spectacle .
8 ‘ I 'm not making any conditions , I 've already changed my will , but I 'd like you to do one thing for me .
9 I 'm not going to go through the erm , passage at the bottom , but I 'd like you to have a go at it and will go over it on Friday .
10 ‘ That makes me feel peachy-keen , but I 'd like you to be a little more specific about your innocence . ’
11 No , but I 'd like you to get your violin out .
12 But I 'd like you to try and calculate it .
13 But I 'd like it to have the company address so that people can follow u can follow up our references without us having to give them the address .
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