Example sentences of "[modal v] certainly like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should certainly like to consider it . |
| 2 | I should certainly like to consider that suggestion . |
| 3 | I should certainly like to see the Bill amended to take care of that point . |
| 4 | Her opening words , which echo a pair of lines in Chaucer 's first fabliau in the sequence of the Canterbury Tales , the Miller 's Tale ( I : 3768 – 9 ) , invite a dialogue charged with sexual connotations , not only in the obvious case of " " ryse " " , but also in the detectable reference to a conventional love-sickness : The monk 's answer immediately confirms the sexual topic of the dialogue , and dispenses with any euphemistic disguises : This rapid movement to a contextually surprising level of familiarity on the topic of sexual intimacy is paralleled in the French fabliau Auburee , where the old bawd , Auburee , in procuring a young wife for a besotted admirer , visits the wife and moves smartly into the bedroom , declaring : ( " I should certainly like to see your bed : then I should know for certain if you lie in the same splendour as the first wife did . " ) |
| 5 | I 'd certainly like to … ’ |
| 6 | I 'd certainly like to know her secret . |
| 7 | I 'd certainly like to have played one-day cricket , as I always got on with it . |
| 8 | I waited , then said , ‘ But I 'd certainly like to know what makes you think I am . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd certainly like to know which bookshops the trials are being held in . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd certainly like him sent round , but to say a little more than sorry . ’ |
| 11 | Well right er okay but erm supposing it was retained as it is , I 'd certainly like to see criterion one retained in the list . |
| 12 | At the last meeting of the committee I did in fact congratulate the director and his staff for the way in which community care had been implemented current year and I 'd certainly like to congratulate him on the way he 's presented er proposals for next year . |
| 13 | I do n't , I 've never played it but I 'd certainly like to but |
| 14 | As we pride ourselves on our service we would certainly like to hear from you if there is any reason for not renewing your entry . |
| 15 | I would certainly like to see it , and we 'd be foolish if we did not consider it . ’ |
| 16 | Er may I also say , and I 'm sure you did n't mean to imply because I would certainly like to think we were super efficient . |
| 17 | ‘ I would certainly like to have it . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't think the link is proven and I would certainly like to see evidence to substantiate that suggestion . |
| 19 | We certainly , if you look at the breakdown of our sales er , we only sell about a hundred and fifty er , million pounds worth er , of goods and services in Asia , Pacific erm , we would certainly like to make acquisitions in that area just as we did in North America er , in the seventies and eighties and we have now small Pearson er , office , for instance in Tokyo , it 's quite slow , erm , er , in that area but certainly we 're on the lookout for acquisitions in , in Asia , Pacific . |
| 20 | It really is something that I would like to see us achieve in the future and if this can be brought forward by meeting the developer down there , then I would be , certainly be in favour of that and I would certainly like , and this is what we said at this meeting , to find out a little more detail of exactly what they were offering but we have to be minded all the time , as I said again , is how we 're going to acquire permission to go over one or two different land owners ' lands . |
| 21 | I would certainly like to see Rocastle get a run of first team matches ( and soon ) . |
| 22 | Nevertheless we are generally satisfied that both committees , that 's the English and the Welsh committees , have done a thorough job and on behalf of my colleagues I would certainly like to pay tribute to those who served on those committees who I believe discharged their responsibilities with great professionalism in circumstances made unnecessarily difficult by ministerial dithering and delay . |
| 23 | We would certainly like to him to come out of his own free will and that 's what we are trying to persuade him to do for his own good . |
| 24 | A number of staff pressed me to make a second , and longer visit in the future , and this I would certainly like to do . |
| 25 | This is n't the way that the current system reasons , and I would certainly like to take the current system and push it in this direction of being more expert in a human sense . |
| 26 | So if you are asking me what I would like to happen , I would certainly like that to be the case . |