Example sentences of "should like [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I should like to be your wife . ’ |
| 2 | I should like to be sure that the child Barbara is carrying is my grandchild , not your bastard . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . " |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ she admitted and then added shyly , ‘ I — I should like to be painted . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We should like to be constructive and we shall consider with our allies how best we can respond . |
| 10 | That is something which we should like to be changed in the future . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ If I have misused another of your American idioms , ’ he said stiffly , ‘ I should like to be so informed . ’ |