Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] like be " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOTE Men may not like being taken to the toilet by a woman , nor a woman by a man . |
| 2 | What I 'd really like is a nice mantlepiece to hang over , somewhere nice and quiet . |
| 3 | ‘ What I 'd really like is to be a ploughshare . |
| 4 | ‘ What I 'd really like is a new set of knees for Paul McGrath , ’ said Atkinson — who of course ‘ made ’ the big Irishman at United before Fergie sold him . |
| 5 | The Porsche might be here , but initially what I 'd really like is a new car , and what I 'd like to do is get up at midnight on the first of August , and drive around in my brand new car in the dark . |
| 6 | The thing I 'd really like is a glossary of terms . |
| 7 | He was worried that a dairymaid might leave the dairy , and then her cows would not like being milked by a stranger . |
| 8 | I guess what I would really like is if I could get my own club and have everyone come to where I was ! |
| 9 | What I would really like is a couple more steeplechasers . |
| 10 | Yes but the thing is what I would really like is get two there then waddle it in one there and then |
| 11 | I said that what I would really like was a little place of my own with two people looking after me . |
| 12 | He would n't like being made a fool of , even it was largely his own fault for refusing to believe her when she told him about Dana . |
| 13 | I mean what I would ideally like is the society in which women could be both private and public people , and men too , so men would identify more with relationships in their families and so on and slightly less with work , and women less with the family and more with work , and I think that would make for much greater flexibility all round and I think children would benefit too . |
| 14 | ‘ That he wo n't like being beaten . |
| 15 | ‘ He wo n't like being bested by friends of a black lady , ’ said Werewolf seriously . |