Example sentences of "like to have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recalls Gerrard : ‘ Ray and Diana were n't married then , although they would dearly like to have been , because they were citizens of the Republic . |
| 2 | But if I am honest I would like to have been born perhaps six or seven years later . |
| 3 | Which Sex Pistol would you like to have been ? |
| 4 | Trevor has often wondered whether this made him grow up with silly fussy habits which irritated the girls with whom he would like to have been involved . |
| 5 | ‘ I would definitely like to have been there all the way at the start of history , at the start of human beings , to see all that happened . |
| 6 | ‘ I would like to have been a cave-woman , to see how we started . |
| 7 | I would like to have been the first person in the world ’ , she added lightly . |
| 8 | I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD |
| 9 | Perhaps in his way he was the sort of cricketer I would like to have been if I had possessed the talent . |
| 10 | I should like to have been a parent , a real English Socialist , a stunning diver on the side , and a foppish dresser . |
| 11 | ‘ Anything you 'd like to have been able to keep about the past ? ’ |
| 12 | I would like to have been watching the expression on his face , having put the question to him so bluntly , but just at that moment I had to slam on my brakes for two gaudily painted trucks , one of them with La Resurrección elaborately painted in red . |
| 13 | CATHERINE No , I would like to have been , I always wanted to have a child but I never did . |
| 14 | It is with regret and concern that I find myself moving to this resolution since the members as members of the European Community want would like to have been possible to travel freely between members states . |
| 15 | I taught drama in an original and compassionate way , as I would like to have been taught when I was at school . |
| 16 | Although I do not have a magic wand , I hope to be able to establish some means of providing the physical back-up that you would like to receive from the Society and to start the ball rolling I am compiling a list of all the ways in which you have been supported or would like to have been supported , in the past plus suggestions for the future . |
| 17 | ‘ I think , ’ said Andrew Ray , ‘ he saw the kind of man he would like to have been had he been straight . |
| 18 | I often thought I should like to have been taught by someone like him . ’ |
| 19 | On selling players , I 'm sure he would like to have been able to keep Sheridan , Hendrie , Batty , and Cuntona , as well as keep all the current players and spend smoe millions on defenders . |
| 20 | No , though I would like to have been able to have played , I can remember saying to my mother once , I would like to have been able to have learnt the piano . |
| 21 | No , though I would like to have been able to have played , I can remember saying to my mother once , I would like to have been able to have learnt the piano . |
| 22 | ‘ Twenty years ago I would have liked to have been a cook elsewhere , ’ she admits . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | It is understood that he would have liked to have been offered the post of Leader of the House . |
| 26 | Jacklin had pulled up short about 50 or 60 yards from the green — just the sort of position I 'd liked to have been in for us , ; Trevino put his fourth shot through the green . |
| 27 | Brian was also aware of other emergencies and admissions taking place and would have liked to have been told what was happening . |
| 28 | The East India Company might have liked to have been able to take the same detached attitude as the Hudson 's Bay Company . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I would have liked to have been told less … abruptly . |