Example sentences of "[vb mod] like have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should like to have been a parent , a real English Socialist , a stunning diver on the side , and a foppish dresser . |
| 2 | I often thought I should like to have been taught by someone like him . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Anything you 'd like to have been able to keep about the past ? ’ |
| 4 | But if I am honest I would like to have been born perhaps six or seven years later . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 11 | CATHERINE No , I would like to have been , I always wanted to have a child but I never did . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I taught drama in an original and compassionate way , as I would like to have been taught when I was at school . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I think , ’ said Andrew Ray , ‘ he saw the kind of man he would like to have been had he been straight . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |