Example sentences of "i [modal v] like [verb] you " in BNC.

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1 I should like to remind you of five background factors that are relevant to the training course we propose .
2 So here we are at the end of 1992 and I should like to thank you all for the tremendous hard work you have put into it .
3 Secondly , I should like to thank you all for helping to deliver a most welcome profits increase in 1992 .
4 I should like to see you settled before Mr Carson and I return to England .
5 I should like to see you at least twice a week . ’
6 I should like to see you , ’ she said .
7 ‘ If I have to look at you , ’ Aunt Emily said without rancour , ‘ I should like to see you in a new dress .
8 I should like to see you alone for a moment , Caroline , if you please . ’
9 I should like to see you win having one ticket cos you 've patronised us .
10 ‘ Madame Lavender , I should like to ask you one or two more questions , ’ said Hassan .
11 I should like to ask you something , sir .
12 I should like to present you to my mother and great-aunts .
13 To the majority who never had the chance to meet him properly , I should like to tell you that he was a merry young man who tempered his quick intelligence with humour , and would , in time , have made worthwhile contributions both to medicine and to the Circle … ’
14 And Wagner spelled out the means : " I should like to advise you not to touch on such incredible views in short essays written … for popular effect , but … to concentrate on a larger and more comprehensive work on this subject . "
15 SALESPERSON : Yes , the initial cost of the tractor is a little higher than competitors ' models , but I should like to show you how , over the life-time of the machine , ours works out to be far more economical .
16 However , I should like to show you … ’
17 " I 'm referring to a leading article which appeared in The Times concerning the Exhibition and which I should like to read you ( by a fortunate chance I happen to have it on my person ) .
18 " Well , in any case I 'd like to welcome you on board , Heinrich , hullo . "
19 I 'd like to welcome you to er this meeting of UNISON .
20 I 'd like to welcome you all , and thank you very much for coming on time .
21 Well we hope that erm by coming here you 've demonstrated that you do n't live in fantasy land so I 'd like to welcome you to the real world and in the real world we know that open systems despite the progress they 've made still struggle to replace the mainframe .
22 Erm , I 'd like to welcome you to the Industrial Training Board , I spent about four and a half years with training scheme , and I actually originated in er , engineering , so er , I 've got a long track record , perhaps of training and er , an even long track record working , so I wo n't give you too hard a time .
23 I 'd like to hold you .
24 I 'd like to appoint you to Chester 's design team .
25 ‘ But I 'd like to put you over my knee and paddle your behind , young lady .
26 Erm I 'd like to assure you that that was n't in fact the case .
27 I 'd like to ask you , Charity , if it 's Hitler 's treaty with the Russians that 's making you talk like this to me , or … or is it Charles ? ’
28 I 'd love to come if I may , and — I 'd like to ask you about something .
29 ‘ There 's something I 'd like to ask you . ’
30 I 'd like to ask you some questions .
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