Example sentences of "would [not/n't] have like " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would not have liked it if she seemed to be saying that they could get away any time they wanted to . |
| 2 | One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target . |
| 3 | She stood a better chance , she thought , upon her own : though a chance of what she would not have liked to have said . |
| 4 | Clara would not have liked to wrestle with its huge ornate metallic bolt . |
| 5 | It looked like a piece of Above technology — something they never saw out in the fields — but he would not have liked to have guessed just what . |
| 6 | Though she still knew she was obscurely to blame , that when Tommaso lifted her onto the bar stool with his big hands which almost met under her rib cage , the current was live in the air around them , and Rosa would not have liked it . |
| 7 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 8 | ‘ He would not have liked Albie stealing away his trade . ’ |
| 9 | Daddy would n't have liked that . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I would n't have liked to be returned to Britain at the end of the war labelled ‘ traitor ’ , ' he said . |
| 11 | I 'm sure he would n't have liked the way we communally beheaded him but it did the job . |
| 12 | ‘ You would n't have liked it , my great-aunt was there . ’ |
| 13 | He would n't have liked to be doing this alone . |
| 14 | He would n't have liked old age , even middle age . |
| 15 | He would n't have liked losing . |
| 16 | However Tolkien disobligingly remarked that he had n't read Ariosto and would n't have liked him if he had ( Biography , p. 218 ) , while Spenser exemplified much that he hated ( see pp. 42–3 above ) . |
| 17 | Hepzibah would n't have liked it . |
| 18 | " We were never well off , " said a retired miner from the Durham coalfield , " but I was always in employment and I would n't have liked my wife to work . " |
| 19 | She would n't have liked me sleeping with him , but if you 're going to sleep with him , you get contraceptives . |
| 20 | And I suppose they would n't have liked it if I 'd had to stay till I was sixteen , cos th the money was needed to come in , so I do n't suppose they would have liked it . |
| 21 | Er the kitchen was n't very big but it was good enough , and then the bedrooms upstairs , I certainly would n't have liked to live in a downstairs flat . |
| 22 | Er because I think you know the erm the bedrooms on er the bottom floor , er certainly I would n't have liked to sleep , erm in a downstairs bedroom like that . |
| 23 | Your mum would n't have liked it . ’ |
| 24 | If I may say so , a lot of your charges could probably be reclassified under a single heading : That he would n't have liked us if he 'd known us . |
| 25 | The boots looked very much too big , but she appreciated that he would n't have liked to lend a pair of Laura 's . |
| 26 | ‘ You mean he would n't have liked to be an invalid having been so healthy all his life ? ’ |
| 27 | It 's not that she would n't have liked to come , but we 've got a baby now . |
| 28 | ‘ I would n't have liked to have known more about him , even though Hattie Jacques and I had the deepest philosophical discussions with him . ’ |
| 29 | He says he would n't have liked to have been told an incinerator was being built at the bottom of his garden , but having seen this one , he 'd be reassured . |