Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb mod] like [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For he does not insist it is healthy and natural , nor does he ask me what I would like him to do . |
| 2 | And what I would like us to do is to be able when we leave here tomorrow , to say that by what we 've learned about one another , and by what we 've actually decided , that we can probably improve what we 're doing by something between five and ten percent . |
| 3 | Then say to the audience ‘ What I would like you to do as soon as I leave the room is to turn over the card on the top of this pile and look at it . ’ |
| 4 | Okay , well now , what I would like you to do please er because we 've only got a limited amount of time , er incidentally some of you still have n't divide collecting er a small group going with Peter I |
| 5 | They are the editors , they 're not the sole authors so each chapter has a different author erm and like all books some are stronger than others but what I would like you to do for the next , by the time we meet next time , that 's on Monday the next lecture , please have read chapters one and two of that book . |
| 6 | Erm , right , what I would like you to do , and what we 've agreed is that , just introduce your partner . |
| 7 | well , okay , right what I would like you to do , on your bit of paper |
| 8 | What I would like you to do , before you get , take the poly-wrap off please , and just extract the twelve yellow cards which are in the very back of this , the monthly calendar cards . |
| 9 | And he keeps on asking me what I 'd like him to buy . |
| 10 | well what I 'd like I think I 'd like people to do is go away and read this and see if it makes any sense when you 've actually sat and studied it . |
| 11 | ‘ What I 'd like you to know is that when it was all over and Peter was back from America , the grave-diggers were down here on their bended knees begging him for forgiveness because they knew it was a nasty business and said had they known at the time they 'd have had nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 12 | What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ . |
| 13 | What I 'd like you to do is to describe briefly each of the members of your family — the family you grew up in . |
| 14 | Now , that 's and example of functional group isomerism what I 'd like you to do now is to try and decide what these two things are called I 'm gon na put on the board and try and decide what you would call them in terms these general labels under structural isomerism . |
| 15 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 16 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 17 | But what I 'd like you to do is to go with me during the next couple of hours , have an open mind and erm if I say something which is in an in any way provocative , question me if you want to , cos that 's what we 're here for , to communicate . |
| 18 | Now this this what I 'd like you to do , is read it out but only read the absolute bare bones of it . |
| 19 | Now what I 'd like you to do I did n't realize it 'd got that late actually . |
| 20 | What I 'd like you to do is do this question again now okay ? |
| 21 | Okay well this is what I 'd like you to do . |
| 22 | Now what I 'd like you to do is show me can you divide it up if we were going to eat this whole pizza between the two of us if it was one one shared out between two people how much would we get ? |
| 23 | Okay erm what I 'd like you to do now is I 'd like you to tell me what you think are the important things about fractions and anything important or interesting that you 've learnt this afternoon . |
| 24 | So what I 'd like you to do when you get some get a cardboard cutout . |
| 25 | Try those erm and with the with the coins what I 'd like you to do now is not find out all the things that add up to twelve . |
| 26 | What I 'd like you to remember is this . |
| 27 | And for the next part we 're going to divide hopefully into groups and what I 'd like you to consider is when you 're thinking about buying a product , what questions you ask . |
| 28 | And erm we wo n't have time to go through all of these afterwards , but if I hand a few round to you , what I 'd like you to do is er just have a go and jot down some of the er solutions that you would provide . |
| 29 | Now , what I 'd like you to do this , this is not straightforward . |
| 30 | So what I 'd like you to do if you just turn to page one sort of a couple of pages in the first one that 's numbered . |