Example sentences of "he would have like 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 | Sometimes he would have liked to unburden himself to somebody , but his officers and men had their own problems . |
3 | Comrade Andrew said he would have liked to be present , only he would be away . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | He would have liked to be able to confront and examine his own previous self . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Bartocci might be convinced of his conspiracy theory , but Zen just could n't take it seriously , much as he would have liked to . |