Example sentences of "have liked " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Unbearable Lightness of Being , the Czech exile Sabina disturbs her French friends by being unable to last out a parade held to protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 : ‘ She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism , Fascism , behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic , pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Twenty years ago I would have liked to have been a cook elsewhere , ’ she admits . |
| 3 | He was unable to observe , however — as he would have liked to do in his ever-observant way — just what the expression on Jilly Jonathan 's pretty face might have been . |
| 4 | However this did not stop us making lists of those quality ‘ prigs ’ we would have liked to eliminate . |
| 5 | I played the Elvira Madigan Mozart , you would have liked it . |
| 6 | Daddy would n't have liked that . ’ |
| 7 | After eating the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron which he must have liked , he asked me where I came from . |
| 8 | Even those in the Britain of the 1980s who would have liked to privatise the last municipal loo were n't too bothered about the Hops Marketing Board . |
| 9 | Ezra would have liked to see more of Max Beerbohm , whom he at least partially admired for his wit , although of course he could not have tolerated his philosophy of life . |
| 10 | The fades , whistles and crackles reminiscent of old Tony Hancock programmes came through because the ionosphere is not as stable as broadcasters would have liked . |
| 11 | Which is a pity , because one would have liked particularly to hear more of the ebullient Gumede , a sort of Mad Max of the townships . |
| 12 | France , meanwhile , would have liked tougher quotas , while Britain wanted no import limits at all . |
| 13 | Clare Shearer , looking rather too much like the Principal Boy of the pantomime , gave an attractive performance as Cherubino — not quite as breathless and impetuous as I would have liked from this juvenile Don Giovanni — but it is very difficult to get used to hearing the immortal Non so piu cosa son sung in translation . |
| 14 | Stock buffo characters Marcellina and Bartolo ( Ann Howard and David Gwynne ) added lightness and comedy to what could be described as a serious interpretation of The Marriage of Figaro , not as effervescent as some would have liked but thoroughly convincing just the same — and one in which the complex ensemble were particularly memorable . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I would n't have liked to be returned to Britain at the end of the war labelled ‘ traitor ’ , ' he said . |
| 17 | DAAN VAN DER MEULEN is best known in English-speaking circles as the first reliable explorer of the Wadi Hadhramaut in South Africa , a little-known , wild region , riven by tribal feuds , hardly explored , and fraught with danger for the outsider ; though he himself would probably have liked to be remembered equally for his services in the Dutch colonial administration in Sumatra . |
| 18 | Would he have liked to lead the Conservative Party ? |
| 19 | Cardinal Paolo Evaristo Arns , Archbishop of Sao Paolo , was in Belgium at the time of her death and would have liked to have said her Requiem Mass . |
| 20 | I would have liked to take them off but the situation was still uncertain , and everyone still believed that the German forces were determined to push us off this high ground east of the Orne . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | While I would have liked to have seen a bit more about 9 Sqn 's contribution to the Tirpitz attacks , I appreciate that this is a book about 617 Sqn . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Shit , she said , I would have liked someone doing that if I were him . |
| 25 | She would have liked to fall in love with him . |
| 26 | Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat , that he felt sorry for her left on her own , but she lacked either her grandmother 's grace or her mother 's energy , so she did not offer him tea . |
| 27 | He confides that he would have liked to have ‘ taken a crack at another big public objective , . |
| 28 | I was not successful in getting the system going as I would really have liked . |
| 29 | Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company . |
| 30 | He would not have liked it if she seemed to be saying that they could get away any time they wanted to . |