Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] like [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow , when I have to tell them how close the Whistler is getting , I may not like to leave them alone after dark . |
| 2 | ‘ I have purchased a black lead Pencil Sketch of Mr. Green of Ambleside which I think has great merit , the materials being uncommonly picturesque and well put together ; I should dearly like to have the same subject ( it is the Cottage at Glencoyn , by Ullswater ) treated by you . ’ |
| 3 | I should rather like to have an opportunity of putting to the Prime Minister some of the arguments in favour of handling business through Cabinet Committees . |
| 4 | I should just like to point out , as a practising Catholic and member of Amnesty , that the ‘ Church ’ to which we refer when speaking of the Catholic Church is the whole ‘ people of God ’ and not just the Pope , Cardinal Ratzinger or other members of the hierarchy . |
| 5 | ( Puff , puff ) I should just like to say that I find what Lord Boddy is saying extraordinarily interesting . |
| 6 | ‘ I should just like to know what 's wrong with the stairs , ’ Wexford exploded . |
| 7 | I should also like to extend our sympathy to the relatives and friends of all those who have been killed in recent incidents in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | On a sober note , I should also like to echo what the right hon. Member for Worcester said about Alick Buchanan-Smith . |
| 9 | Some formidable and even frightening features of the familiar landscape have disappeared , and obviously that is to our great content , but elsewhere there are new commotions and new uncertainties , and I should also like to deal with some of those . |
| 10 | I should also like to say that we are concerned about the question of how much industry should be in Harrogate and there 's talk about avoiding the need for compu commuting . |
| 11 | I should also like to thank Anthony Carter and Grace Harris for their careful commentaries on this paper . |
| 12 | I should also like to add a personal request as a cyclist and ask you to ensure that the debris from the hedge cutting is not left on the highway where it can cause a hazard to cyclists . |
| 13 | I should also like to know what I am to say to Oatridge , St. Kentigerns and other people who are involved at a practical level . |
| 14 | Once she was out of her chair I should not like to keep her hanging about , and I can always make straight for the Ladies at Harvey Nicholls [ sic ] . |
| 15 | I should not like to commit myself too closely to any one of them because my priority — in negotiating one must be clear about one 's priority — is to get rid of discrimination . |
| 16 | ‘ I have a new friend , ’ Mrs Ames said , ‘ I should not like to stay away from home too long , just because of that . |
| 17 | But I should n't like to have animals inside the house … . ’ |
| 18 | I should n't like to think many of them were floating around . |
| 19 | For instance , before the war , it was reported that he was heard to say over the telephone , in reply to an invitation from a leading London hostess , ‘ I should especially like to come , as I have not been to Hampstead since 1916 ’ . |
| 20 | I should certainly like to see the Bill amended to take care of that point . |
| 21 | Her opening words , which echo a pair of lines in Chaucer 's first fabliau in the sequence of the Canterbury Tales , the Miller 's Tale ( I : 3768 – 9 ) , invite a dialogue charged with sexual connotations , not only in the obvious case of " " ryse " " , but also in the detectable reference to a conventional love-sickness : The monk 's answer immediately confirms the sexual topic of the dialogue , and dispenses with any euphemistic disguises : This rapid movement to a contextually surprising level of familiarity on the topic of sexual intimacy is paralleled in the French fabliau Auburee , where the old bawd , Auburee , in procuring a young wife for a besotted admirer , visits the wife and moves smartly into the bedroom , declaring : ( " I should certainly like to see your bed : then I should know for certain if you lie in the same splendour as the first wife did . " ) |
| 22 | I should certainly like to consider it . |
| 23 | I should certainly like to consider that suggestion . |
| 24 | The request that I should receive a consignment of most , if not all , of the issues was obviously impossible to meet ; and although I should much like to have had the ‘ run ’ of Eliot 's bookcase for an afternoon , I felt I could not seek permission , so soon after my arrival at the school , to go to London for that purpose , so I told Eliot that half a dozen well-spaced numbers would suffice for me . |
| 25 | ‘ I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen in their elegant but confined houses , ’ Charlotte Bronte writes in 1848 , reporting the sensations of a reader rather than commenting upon description , for Jane Austen 's contexts are , like Richardson 's , still sensed rather than seen . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , but your room , I should so like to see your room . ’ |
| 27 | I should now like to take a look at your suitability for this particular job , ’ or ‘ If we could move on from your qualifications I 'd like you to tell me a little more about your personal interests and hobbies ’ . |
| 28 | Erm and I should now like to introduce er Thomas , Director of Public Relations , who will talk us through 's product brands and competition followed by a detailed review of where our product fits into the market and it 's U S P . |
| 29 | Following various letters and telephone conversations with yourself and with Mr Clegg from your department , I should now like to make the following request from Wyre Borough Council Leisure Services Committee . |
| 30 | Following various letters and telephone conversations with yourself and with Mr Clegg from your department , I should now like to make the following request from Wyre Borough Council Leisure Services . |