Example sentences of "would have loved [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd 've loved to have been that pillow , I really would er things he was doing to this pillow it was |
| 2 | I 'd 've loved to have been in there and gone mad pull all them windows out and put all nice new wee windows in . |
| 3 | He 'd have loved to see you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And I 'd have loved to see him . |
| 5 | I 'd have loved to play there . |
| 6 | I 'd have loved to have built a 10-year career around him , but I fully understand his reasons for going . |
| 7 | I 'd have loved to have seen a database import facility in the software . |
| 8 | I was a bit disappointed to hear this , I 'd have loved to have heard him say ( on a channel largely watched by scum ) ‘ I only ever wanted to play for Leeds ’ . |
| 9 | I 'd have loved to have thanked him personally , but we have to respect his wish to remain anonymous . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd have loved to have seen her in the flesh . |
| 11 | Now he was looking at Toby with the pleading grin of the schoolboy planning a jape , and Toby , who was near enough to that stage to want to put it firmly behind him , would have loved to refuse . |
| 12 | I would have loved to touch them to see what they felt like but I could see out of the corner of my eye that I was being watched . |
| 13 | I mean , she 'll go on a bus but no further , and we tried everything to get her to come to America — she would have loved to see me on Broadway , and she wanted to get there . |
| 14 | Nothing memorable happened at their only meeting , in a Gloucestershire sanatorium , though Malcolm Muggeridge once remarked that he would have loved to see and hear them together , and it is still open to anyone to write an imaginary conversation of the event . |
| 15 | so as much i hate it ( i would have loved to see a norwegian playing for leeds — i guess the dream will have to wait ) Frank is for sure going . |
| 16 | DEC/Fujitsu discussions are now rumoured as ‘ over ’ — Fujitsu is not dumping Sparc , but would have loved to go to Alpha instead — two to three years ago . |
| 17 | ‘ I was in a hotel last night and I would have loved to sit in the bar and have a drink . |
| 18 | ‘ I would have loved to live in Nina 's house but it was too big . |
| 19 | ‘ I would have loved to join the elitist few who have made 500 League appearances and , but for my spell in the Conference and my long list of injuries , I probably would have done it , ’ added McDonough , who netted 89 goals in 460 league games . |
| 20 | ‘ He would have loved to paint you , ’ Lucenzo said huskily . |
| 21 | ‘ Daddy would have loved to have come as I said , but he just ca n't get any time off at all at the moment . |
| 22 | I would have loved to have spent more time out there where the action is , but it just was n't practical . |
| 23 | Millions would have loved to have taken her up on her offer . |
| 24 | ‘ I would have loved to have been there but I just can not get around now . |
| 25 | I would have loved to have stayed in her Boathouse despite the eight inch snail with head and horns buried in a roll of butter in the larder in the morning and his relatives ‘ who had a provoking way of paying nocturnal visits , and wandered between the wooden walls and the loosely fixed paper that decked the walls … ’ ; the family of mice and the ‘ sagacious hen ’ that laid her eggs in the corner of the hole in the wall designated as a cupboard . |
| 26 | ‘ I would have loved to have seen some goals , but there was still some great football played . |
| 27 | I would have loved to have been able to do more to turn that vision into reality . |
| 28 | A friend of many years ' standing has said that , ‘ Ifor would have loved to have stayed on at school . |
| 29 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 30 | ‘ Now , because I feel so healthy , I do n't feel sorry for myself and I can say : ‘ Yes , I would have loved to have had children but it did n't happen and I accept it . ’ |