Example sentences of "would have [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think I 'd have cared to be represented by two images in the same picture . |
| 2 | Gillian and I were falling in love and you 'd think we 'd have wanted to be by ourselves all the time , gazing into one another 's eyes and holding hands and going to bed together . |
| 3 | I 'd have hated to be in your position , a purely physical attraction outweighing personal antipathy , so I just went along with your wishes . |
| 4 | ‘ If it had been me I 'd have learnt to be transmitted as microwaves by now , and bounced off Jupiter . |
| 5 | We 'd have had to be pretty stupid not to assume what we did . |
| 6 | " There were n't really many single men around , and he 'd have had to be a pretty outstanding young man to take her in hand . " |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd have preferred to be a jockey . |
| 8 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 9 | Maybe I 'd have needed to be born in Rumania or Poland to be the best player . ’ |
| 10 | Similar provisions are contained in the Act to govern secondary action aimed at disruption of supply between any person and an associated employer of the employer party to the dispute where the goods or services are in substitution for goods or services which but for the dispute would have fallen to be supplied to or by the employer who is party to the dispute . |
| 11 | Longing to see something green and to inhale fresh air , Vincent asked the doctor how much longer he would have to wait to be discharged . |
| 12 | Mr. Watson had then telephoned the same consultant in the same hospital and had asked how long he would have to wait to be seen privately . |
| 13 | It was the sort of spot Martha would have wanted to be buried , because from her grave you could look out to sea towards the Gribbin , close to where Sam had been drowned . |
| 14 | It is a cliché to say he died where he would have wanted to be , but true nonetheless . |
| 15 | And I would have wanted to be an instrumentalist , not a singer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If the Eastern District was less successful in some respects than it would have liked to be , it was not for want of trying . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Comrade Andrew said he would have liked to be present , only he would be away . |
| 20 | She would have liked to be nearer to the panel , but she doubted her ability to kneel or squat in the spacesuit . |
| 21 | He would have liked to be able to confront and examine his own previous self . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The barge-dwellers , creatures neither of firm land nor water , would have liked to be more respectable than they were . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Hill said : ‘ I would have liked to be on the front row , but I think fourth is a pretty good place to be . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Not that Denholm would have claimed to be anything of what he would have said to be the ridiculous kind . |
| 28 | I saw what she was — what she was to me — not what she seemed or would have appeared to be in a photograph or common portrait . |
| 29 | If regional officers were to take more than a passing interest in this pattern of change the writing would have appeared to be on the wall , but as the comments of the regional medical and nursing officers cited above revealed , it was some time before their interest was kindled . |
| 30 | It would have appeared to be charity and she could not have borne that . |