Example sentences of "i like to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that I said ‘ do I want to be ’ rather than ‘ would I like to be ’ as the latter allows for the possibility of failure . |
| 2 | Oh , would n't I like to be a fly on the wall when you tell her the latest ! |
| 3 | Peter 's pretty nice , but to tell the truth I like to be with Marie on my own best . |
| 4 | I like to be flamboyant and have an excuse to dress up ’ |
| 5 | On the one hand , I like to , I enjoy it . |
| 6 | ‘ I have no particular objection to the name John but I never use it and it is not how I like to be known . |
| 7 | He told me , ‘ I like to party . ’ |
| 8 | As a mere imperfect mortal , I find myself working twice as hard to introduce those whom I like to the Lord . |
| 9 | I like to be able to arrange my own times a bit but that is n't always possible and you 've got to accommodate yourself as well to the needs of the staff . ’ |
| 10 | But I like to be independent as much as I can , and they 've got more than enough to do with the people that ca n't help themselves . |
| 11 | ‘ I like to be treated with dignity . |
| 12 | I like to be charitable . |
| 13 | I like to be with her . |
| 14 | I like to be alone when I 'm beginning a painting — I do n't want anyone to speak to me then — but as the work progresses you want a bit of contact with somebody else . |
| 15 | I like to be alone under the careless profusion of the stars , and alone on a moon-glossed sea . |
| 16 | I like to be left to get on with the job |
| 17 | I like to be the centre of attention or in the public eye |
| 18 | I like to be on time |
| 19 | ‘ But I like to be up front about these things . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I like to be tidy . ’ |
| 21 | Nowadays I do n't drive cars , and I like to f— deer . ’ |
| 22 | It 's made me independent ; I do n't like to be beholden to anybody , I like to be my own boss . |
| 23 | I like to independence with economics , you do n't have your independence without economic independence . |
| 24 | I like to be informed ’ . |
| 25 | I like to be informed , I want to know , I discover things . |
| 26 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 27 | independence I like to be independent |
| 28 | I like to be with you . |
| 29 | Oh yes , I do not mind for I like to be good . |
| 30 | I like to ‘ shoot ’ every Whaddon game and it is nothing for Jock to spend a whole weekend analysing , in minute detail , every little aspect of his instruction manual in the hope he can learn to operate the video machine . |