Example sentences of "would have liked " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd have liked to plump for the Algarve but , he said wistfully , you do go over the £1,000 . |
| 2 | He 'd have liked to have seen Gina reading one of their notes with a penitent expression . |
| 3 | She 'd have liked a nice cup of milky tea . |
| 4 | She 'd have liked that for herself and Gloria . |
| 5 | You 'd have liked him . |
| 6 | It was right , and he was sorry about it , because he 'd have liked to think his idea had helped them , been taken up so that he could feel part of the activity . |
| 7 | I 'd have liked best of all to have stuffed his mouth with hay . |
| 8 | If you had seen that band drawn up on the parade-ground , with full regalia glittering in the sun , while in front six bugles sounded Retreat and the audience came spontaneously to attention , you 'd have liked it , I 'm sure . |
| 9 | A pity in a way ; he 'd have liked her to suffer more . |
| 10 | The acoustic in the solo works is a shade reverberant , and I 'd have liked a longer gap after the Concerto , but the recording quality throughout is very acceptable . |
| 11 | I 'd have liked the choice of a nursery when they , were little , but you know , in a way now I have got the choice . |
| 12 | We 'd have liked to try the LSE with Lowden 's new preamp system complete with volume and treble/bass controls on the upper bout , but none were available at the time and we 've had to make do with the non-controlled version . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd have liked to have done more with M/M because they 're out on tour now . |
| 14 | I 'd have liked everything to happen at my pace , ’ he says . |
| 15 | And there have been days I 'd have liked her at home when I had a headache or one of the nuns had roared at me at school . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd have liked to have had Rickie Crowninshield in my platoon for just five minutes . ’ |
| 17 | I heard him say to Dad how sorry he was about Sister Hannah and how he 'd have liked to have seen her before she was screwed down . |
| 18 | I 'd have liked to prolong it by asking you to supper , but … ’ |
| 19 | I 'd have liked a job but you could n't , because the men had to be looked after , you just had to be there . |
| 20 | She 'd have liked you . " |
| 21 | I 'd have liked to have cut the face off of him with a few choice words . |
| 22 | I 'd have liked it once , Mrs Sutherland , but you do n't care about people at all . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'd have liked Sendei , ’ she told him . |
| 24 | " You 'd have liked to watch that , Grandmother . " |
| 25 | Sometimes he thought that he 'd have liked nothing more than to be like Michael of the tarmac boys , gap-toothed and thick-headed and with no greater concern than that of pissing his money away at a speed roughly equal to that at which he made it , but he had to make do with the hand that he 'd been dealt — thin-skinned and solitary , one of nature 's observers . |
| 26 | ‘ He 'd have liked to have seen you more often . |
| 27 | I 'd have liked to see some of the famous places , like Rome and Paris and Moscow and South Sea islands and Jamaica and New York . |
| 28 | ‘ Ah 'd have liked to take a look around the Archaeological Museum , but Ah fear we 'd never make it in time through the rush-hour traffic . |
| 29 | The situation was n't as clear-cut as he 'd have liked . |
| 30 | Biting back the answer she 'd have liked to make , Shannon raised her eyebrows expectantly . |