Example sentences of "[modal v] like to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good God , he thought , I should like to do something that would really make her jump out of her skin for once . |
| 2 | What I should like to do in this essay is to challenge this assumption . |
| 3 | ‘ I should like to do it myself . |
| 4 | In many ways I should like to do the same , for there are wonderful stories to be told , and I love storytelling . |
| 5 | Before that , there are one or two other things I should like to do , er , in particular to thank Tunstall Telecom for their spart , part sponsorship of this meeting . |
| 6 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 7 | MEANWHILE , if you 're not actually strangling a turkey at the moment then you might like to do the next worse thing and plunge into the unsavoury giblets of the 1990 calendar of the National Association of Conservative Graduates . |
| 8 | Which I think we might like to do n't worry . |
| 9 | I was surprised when , only three days after my seeing him , Émile telephoned Jean-Claude at the pavillon without my knowledge and proposed to him that , given his connection with la Sologne , he might like to do the music for a radio opera version of Le Grand Meaulnes . |
| 10 | Ruth had already decided to bring her own children to be photographed today , and then approached all her friends with young families , suggesting they might like to do the same — so it had turned into a children 's party . |
| 11 | When Clinger suggested that one of his lordship 's servants might like to do that , Dersingham said , what was Clinger if not just that . |
| 12 | She was asked what she had done to merit promotion and what she might like to do : |
| 13 | Mrs Smythe looked sympathetic and said : ‘ I was thinking , your husband 's such a kind gentle person — he might like to do a bit of voluntary work . |
| 14 | Henry V and the second piece I 'd like to do is a contract if … if , that is , we have time . ’ |
| 15 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And do you know what I 'd like to do ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd like to do medicine . ’ |
| 18 | I just said what I 'd like to do , ’ she said brokenly , with bitterness . |
| 19 | Every day , I always used to stick my head around the office door and say , ‘ Anything for me today ? ’ — and one day they said , ‘ Well , we 're looking for dancers for the BBC 's production of Pistol Shot ( which was a play by Chekhov ) — maybe you 'd like to do it and choreograph it and use some of your students ? ’ |
| 20 | I 'd like to do something to … to make amends . ’ |
| 21 | Susan could n't think of anything she 'd like to do less , but she would support Maggie . |
| 22 | Yeah , actually I really like fashion photography ; not typical fashion , but there 's a certain thing I know personally I 'd like to do in fashion photography . |
| 23 | I 'd like to do something more along those lines . |
| 24 | Some of the other letters in the box ( the typed ones ) were much less elegant , and seemed to have come from strangers ; they contained advice of a different sort , instructions about where to get sex and how much to pay for it if necessary , often these were just plain filth like I 'd like to do this to you and then I 'd like to do that to you , be at the top of the park in your grey school trousers and I 'll show you what a real man can do for you . |
| 25 | Some of the other letters in the box ( the typed ones ) were much less elegant , and seemed to have come from strangers ; they contained advice of a different sort , instructions about where to get sex and how much to pay for it if necessary , often these were just plain filth like I 'd like to do this to you and then I 'd like to do that to you , be at the top of the park in your grey school trousers and I 'll show you what a real man can do for you . |
| 26 | Which is what I 'd like to do now , ideally . |
| 27 | What they 'd like to do is script it really . |
| 28 | Now she says she 'd like to do her own show , but points out , ‘ I ca n't ever see myself doing a pompous evening programme wearing a skirt and jacket . ’ |
| 29 | As I said , I work with Phil 's band and Genesis , and there 's usually about a year off in between so I 'd like to do another record of my own . ’ |
| 30 | What I 'd like to do is go back to my natural colour . |