Example sentences of "would like to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd like to be able to say yes I do , but I left so long ago . |
| 2 | I 'd like to be on the lovely buses . |
| 3 | You 'd like to be capable of violence … |
| 4 | ‘ Look , ’ he said at last , ‘ the point is , I 'd like to be your friend . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , like all the other times I 've spoken to you , I 'd like to be put through to Mr Roirbak . ’ |
| 6 | He has this image in his head of the kind of person he 'd like to be , it 's a cartoon character … something about 2000 AD . |
| 7 | Also I 'd like to be taller and be able to afford to spend more money on clothes that would ‘ express my personality ’ . |
| 8 | I 'd like to be transported to a bathroom in the Ritz and then to a dry Martini in the bar . ’ |
| 9 | If you 'd like to be considered for selection , answer the following five questions clearly and concisely ( please type double-spaced on A4 paper ) and fill in the entry form below . |
| 10 | They were the years in which we began to grow up ; in which we started to discover who it was we thought we 'd like to be ; in which our earliest ( and therefore longest-lasting ) preferences in love , music , pleasure were formed . |
| 11 | Instead of putting them down for the afternoon , I 'd like to be able to do something with them . |
| 12 | Curtis told the police when arrested : ‘ I 'd like to be recognized for making the planet a better place to live in . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd like to be on hand the moment they came out of the dark room . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd like to be your brother . ’ |
| 15 | In my next incarnation , I 'd like to be the Minister Of ‘ Fun ’ , but with better taste in footy teams ( and women ! ) . |
| 16 | However we choose to define multiple orgasm , there are a lot of us who 'd like to be able to do it . |
| 17 | So of course I said how much I 'd like to be able to play my guitar like a saxophone , and he said , ‘ Yeah — and vice versa . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 19 | Yours ( not as experienced as I 'd like to be ) , |
| 20 | When I look at a picture of a naked man , I can think like Richard Dyer : ‘ I 'd like to feel that man and I 'd like to be that man . ’ |
| 21 | The real mother is only 24 , wears cheap , shabby clothes , has stiff hair like straw , thin legs , says in a quiet moment ‘ I 'd like to be a person like you ’ and smokes her cigarettes too low . |
| 22 | ‘ No , but we 'd like to be there at the beginning so that we could if we want to , then run away , ’ Eve explained . |
| 23 | ‘ He 'd like to be interviewed about his life , and talk about the kind of funeral he wants to have . |
| 24 | I 'd like to be the one to pass it on . ’ |
| 25 | An anorexic may tell her friends or parents , ‘ I 'd like to be slim ’ , and , if pressed for a reason , may reply along the lines of , ‘ So that I can wear nice clothes , date good-looking boys , and generally have a good time . ’ |
| 26 | I suppose everyone had the feeling sometime or other that they 'd like to be free , walk out , wander over the earth . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd like to be a businesswoman . ’ |
| 28 | I 'd like to be a star for five minutes , but I do n't want to live inside a limousine , I do n't want to have body guards . |
| 29 | ‘ But if it takes that long to sort things out I 'd like to be playing for Sunderland . |
| 30 | I 'd like to be a rhythm guitar player in a band ! |