Example sentences of "he would [verb] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will also be talk of a return by Boycott , who has always been open in admitting that he would like to be either cricket chairman or team manager . |
| 2 | He thought he would like to be more like her ; when she spoke people listened . |
| 3 | He would like to be there when they shot the bastard . |
| 4 | In the role of public-relations officer and contact man he would need to be ever more energetic in promoting commercial and industrial interests in his constituency . |
| 5 | He would need to be continually finding opportunities to put himself on display to the populace : walkabouts , tours of business premises and factories and farms , appearances in pubs and clubs , visits to colleges and hospitals and homes for the elderly , attendances at all sorts of social functions and ceremonies — the list could be endless . |
| 6 | He realised with a sense of desperation that he would have to be twice as cunning as his wife if he was to recover that which she had taken from him . |
| 7 | McLeish reflected uncomfortably that he would have to be very circumspect in his dealings with Catherine , with this beady-eyed observer around the place . |
| 8 | He would have to be very , very careful . |
| 9 | They can certainly be quite big enough for a diver to put his foot into , but he would have to be very incautious indeed to get trapped . |
| 10 | He would have to be very careful how he handled his bride , for she had been injured enough . |
| 11 | He would have to be very careful , only going out after dusk when he could do some jobs for other people in exchange for a little food . |
| 12 | This time he would have to be more subtle . |