Example sentences of "i [modal v] love to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd love to be a record success again , but the last LP I made was so bloody personal it was ludicrous : you ca n't write songs about those you love , your children , and expect other people to buy them … |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I 'd love to be running marathons when I 'm 84 . |
| 3 | Batty said : ‘ I 'd love to be out there helping the lads . |
| 4 | There 's also the soft side , the Bill Morrison who is reduced to tears by Harry Secombe — ‘ I 'd love to be as good as him ’ and the Bill Morrison who confesses in an unguarded moment that as an epitaph he 'd like the description that appeared in a recent Times leader about him : ‘ a man they can trust ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm a free agent and like any other driver I 'd love to be in the Williams . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd love to be considered a novelty act . |
| 7 | If you find me more time , or get an extra teacher in the department , I 'd love to be doing better . |
| 8 | I 'd love to be like my mother . |
| 9 | Actually , I 'm in a situation now where I 'd love to be celibate … but I really love sex . |
| 10 | you know , where I belong , I , I do n't quite honestly do n't really like Harlow New Town any more , I al I did up until about oh eight or nine years ago I thought it was a great place and all , all the cockneys that said , you know , oh I 'd love to be back in London , I thought they were barmy , you know to live in London the di the difference is , I mean my husband 's a cockney and he would n't , would never , well now he would never go back to London you know , it 's a dump , he , he likes Harlow , but er I think I do n't like it now because it 's expanded so much , you know when we , when we were first here , mind you when we first moved in it was ever so difficult for us kids because , there , there was the Old Town kids versus the New Town kids and they hated us , they really |
| 11 | I 'd love to be a teacher ! |
| 12 | I know you were proud to give Anne away , and I 'd love to be with you and all the family , but we only have two days ’ leave . |
| 13 | I 'd love to be forced to do it in strange positions . |
| 14 | She added apologetically , ‘ Sophie thinks I 'm too romantic , and I suppose I am , but I must admit I 'd love to be protected . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd love to be back in Bishop Auckland just now , if only for the gossip , but I ca n't do a day 's canvassing and sometimes feel a bit of a passenger . |
| 16 | When I 'm older I 'd love to be a dancer . |
| 17 | When I 'm older I 'd like to have a dancer no I 'd like , no when I 'm older I 'd love to be a dancer . |
| 18 | I 'd love to be a granny , I really would ! |
| 19 | Yeah I 'd love to be able |
| 20 | I 'd love to be a fly on the wall about Wednesday night . |
| 21 | comes along , it 's a tremendous support , I 'd love to be a bowler on England 's side cos you get clapped for an whatever happens . |
| 22 | When we had finished filming I said to Kim Bailey , the trainer : ‘ If you ever need somebody to ride this little horse , I would love to be considered . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The injury has come at a time when I would love to be looking forward to making my home debut against Forest . |
| 24 | How I would love to be proved wrong by any one of them but parents and boys deserve my honest opinion , however much they may hate me for it . |
| 25 | ‘ I would love to be in partnership with someone who would do all the work , and leave me 50 per cent . |
| 26 | Although I would love to be able to take regular trips to the countryside , I am often unable to indulge myself in this luxury and so instead I choose to walk and cycle through Richmond Park in London . |
| 27 | ‘ I would love to be able to do something creative like that . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I would love to be included , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Mr Aiken , who promoted Bruce Springsteen in Dublin this week , said : ‘ I would love to be co-ordinator . |
| 30 | The easiest uses to come to grips with are exclamations such as ( 1 ) above , because they give a very clear impression of somehow looking at the infinitive event from a position before : they express a desire or longing to realize the infinitive event , so that ( 1 ) might be paraphrased " I would love to be in England … |