Example sentences of "would [not/n't] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | She cried silently , but made no effort to stop , although Michael would not like to see her cry . |
| 2 | Egyptians , wary of historical backsliding , would not like to see them reopen . |
| 3 | ( As I write , I hesitate — I would not like to be disrespectful — but continue , because the picture would not otherwise be true , and I think that she , above all people , would agree that a description should be true . ) |
| 4 | I would not like it to be said that I had had my mother put away . ’ |
| 5 | I would not like to be kept alive by a machine , like a vegetable , day in day out , she had once decided , I would prefer to accept my appointed day . |
| 6 | But perhaps she could say nothing , for Alida would not like it , there would be financial considerations . |
| 7 | I am unable to cope with the idea of being any heavier than I am now , and would not like to have a period , since I would feel I had ‘ let up ’ control over my body . |
| 8 | Whilst Alison states at the end of Chapter 11 that she would not like to have a period as it would signify that she had ‘ let up ’ control over her body , Freya feels quite differently , realising that getting her periods back would be a good sign of recovery . |
| 9 | I would not like to contribute to that , although I suppose that Mr Smith 's vicious tax might just persuade me to brace my shoulders and cry ‘ traps away ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’ |
| 11 | They said local people would not like to see such a waste of money ( even though it would not come from local diocesan funds , whereas the cost of demolition would ) . |
| 12 | Now I would not like to be without it . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you sure you would not like to rest for a little ? ’ enquired Agnes . |
| 14 | I would not like to do a Morrissey . |
| 15 | It is something that many people would not like to see , but there is no question that a high proportion of animals which are shot will carry lead shot for a while , will die after a long period — in many cases days or weeks — and there is a substantial amount of suffering when this happens . |
| 16 | For his part , he seems to have enjoyed Cornwall , which he described as a walker 's paradise and ‘ … romantic to a degree ’ , though he confessed he would not like to live in it . |
| 17 | However , as stated above , nine out of the 11 in the action sample who said at second interview that they continued to prefer home care gave much more unequivocal answers ; stating not merely that they would not like the dementia sufferer to be in institutional care , or that they would feel guilty about him or her going into residential care ( as did the carers of Miss Wainwright and Mrs Nolan ) , but also that home was where they envisaged and wanted the sufferer to remain . |
| 18 | Whether this is the true one I would not like to say but in this version the ‘ trains wipe tapes ’ hypothesis was the inspired explanation of a recording engineer who , through an operational error , had failed to record anything in the first place ! |
| 19 | All in all it 's an experience I would not like to repeat . |
| 20 | He said , ‘ I would not like to be a man in that city tonight . ’ |
| 21 | Try never to do or say anything to a teacher ( or about a teacher ) that you would not like done or said to you . |
| 22 | For extra effect you can say ‘ Are you sure you would not like to change your mind ’ or ‘ I want you to be sure that you can point to whichever line you like . ’ |
| 23 | While it certainly can not be claimed to be a panacea for all ills , and no system of therapeutics has yet turned out to be that , it is an approach which I would not like to be without . |
| 24 | I would not like to think of myself as a little Boswelly person , and my mother brought me up so much better than I have turned out . |
| 25 | ‘ I would plead with them to speak to the police as a matter of urgency because I would not like this to happen to anyone else or for any other family to go through the distress we are experiencing . |
| 26 | Certainly , I would not like to be in Dino Zoff 's shoes at the moment . ’ |
| 27 | There was some question about whether the Report should be published in its entirety , for Mr Baker and Mrs Rumbold were worried that there were sections which the Prime Minister would not like . |
| 28 | He wondered how Olga would–take the news he had for her , and decided grimly that she would not like it . |
| 29 | My mother would not like this . ’ |
| 30 | I became famous ( or notorious ) for my diary , which I kept up assiduously , and which was generally believed to be full of scandal of the sort the school authorities would not like to see appear in the newspapers . |