Example sentences of "have like [to-vb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Twenty years ago I would have liked to have been a cook elsewhere , ’ she admits . |
| 2 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
| 3 | St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get |
| 4 | It is understood that he would have liked to have been offered the post of Leader of the House . |
| 5 | Brian was also aware of other emergencies and admissions taking place and would have liked to have been told what was happening . |
| 6 | The East India Company might have liked to have been able to take the same detached attitude as the Hudson 's Bay Company . |
| 7 | Looking down into his eyes , Harry Pascoe knew instinctively that there was in Tristram the makings of the sort of man he would have liked to have been himself : a man of honour , a man untroubled by jealousy or a guilty conscience . |
| 8 | I would have liked to have been told less … abruptly . |
| 9 | The friar just stared at him and concluded that Fitzosbert would have liked to have been born a woman . |
| 10 | In fact , if the truth be known , he would really have liked to have been Walt Disney ! |
| 11 | He says he would n't have liked to have been told an incinerator was being built at the bottom of his garden , but having seen this one , he 'd be reassured . |
| 12 | But er I would I would have liked to have been able to done that you know . |