Example sentences of "[vb mod] like [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I — we — should like to , very much . |
| 2 | I think I should like to be your wife . ’ |
| 3 | I should like to be sure that the child Barbara is carrying is my grandchild , not your bastard . ’ |
| 4 | Er , I should like to the names next month and I hope you 'll all support us because the numbers are going down and if we do n't get sufficient numbers , it 'll have to cancelled like the Torbay one . |
| 5 | The question we should like to be able to answer is , therefore , what suddenly created such a new , unheard of , situation in the religious life of antiquity . |
| 6 | Laocoon suffers ; but he suffers like Sophocles ' Philoctetes ; his misery pierces us to the soul ; but we should like to be able to bear anguish in the manner of this great man . |
| 7 | I should like to be something more than a drill-master for competent philologists — the generation of present-day teachers , the care of the growing younger generation , this is what I have in mind . " |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , ‘ I should like to . |
| 9 | I should like to very much . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I should like to above anything . |
| 11 | ‘ No , ’ she admitted and then added shyly , ‘ I — I should like to be painted . ’ |
| 12 | The Chancellor , Kenneth Clarke , declared in his Mansion House speech that he ‘ should like to be remembered as a Chancellor who helped British industry and British commerce through another difficult period and helped to make a difference to the wealth creating capacity of the nation . ’ |
| 13 | I know that the Combined Heat and Power Association recently submitted a report to OFFER pointing out some institutional and administrative barriers that it should like to be tackled . |
| 14 | We should like to be constructive and we shall consider with our allies how best we can respond . |
| 15 | That is something which we should like to be changed in the future . |
| 16 | There is a meeting of the Parish Council on 16th July and I should like to be able to bring your reply to that meeting . |
| 17 | er sale occurred when they went through the electrical register and asked people who lived in flats whether they wanted a green cone , they did n't even have a garden , let alone a window box but nevertheless erm I the green cone extends ought to be reported on , ought to be encouraged and such like because it is the individual person who is going to recycle using their own garden in their own small way as opposed to transporting the stuff maybe to a waste tip and such like where it has to be dealt with at a an expensive way and if a the best part of the expense of dealing with waste of course is actually to transport and transport throughout the roads and if you do it in your own gardens so much the better and I , I , I should like to er and taking part in the green cone experiment er further experiments like that whereby the individual person is encouraged to do it . |
| 18 | ‘ If I have misused another of your American idioms , ’ he said stiffly , ‘ I should like to be so informed . ’ |
| 19 | I feel I can not mention them all yet again , much as I should like to . |
| 20 | I should like for the purposes of this inquiry to reconstruct an average evening , an ordinary evening , a typical evening . |
| 21 | I have passed your letter to the Administration Section of the Department for formal processing , however , I should like at this stage to thank you for your contribution to the work of Lothian Trading Standards Department , and wish you well with your future career at |
| 22 | Grant 'll like after school . |
| 23 | In fact , those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be , believe they ought to be , or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards . |
| 24 | Sometimes I would like to have a go , experiment with make-up , but because Mum does n't wear any , it does n't occur to her that I might like to . |
| 25 | Much as we might like to , we ca n't turn the clock back on these fundamental changes , we have no choice but to proceed with all faith in the new and make it work . |
| 26 | If you can help PLEASE tick the jobs you feel you might like to be involved with : |
| 27 | If you can help PLEASE tick the jobs you feel you might like to be involved with : |
| 28 | Much as you might like to , no smallholder can escape the clerical and book-keeping side of the business . |
| 29 | English tourists might like to be reminded that the ghastly visitor centres , the scant toilet facilities and the gruesome catering in the West Highlands of Scotland are there to get you back for the fact you won . |
| 30 | Though some among them might like to , their commanders will probably settle for what they have . |