She would have liked to see whether a sharp word or two would have moved the silent Allison for a moment out of the dull, mechanical performance of her duty.
She would have liked well to hear more, but she asked no question to startle her into silence again.
She would have liked best to go away at once to her brother in America, and some of her friends were inclined to wonder that she did not do so.
She would have liked to see the lad again; have liked to talk over with him Stowbury things and Stowbury people; but she felt she ought not, and she would not.
This room was not kept quite as nice as she would have liked it to be.
She would have liked to feel him near by, and yet she welcomed anything that took her husband out of the house.
Still, somehow, she would have liked him to go to-night.
She would have liked to work and make money for both of them, so that he need not depart from the pure principle of his art.
She looked as if she would have liked to fling those bitter pages at the feet of her Dutch sisters, at the feet of all women.
She would have liked to warn Urania against the marchesa, the prince and the monsignori who had taken Rudyard's place, but especially against marriage, even marriage with a prince and duke.
She was now in Rome: she would have liked to be in London.
She would have liked to ask him what was the matter.
But the Mary above the altar smiled gently, as if she would have liked to step out of her frame and overtake the child and kiss her.
She would have liked to cheer him up, but she did not seek to be near him; her presence seemed to have the opposite effect upon him from what she desired.
He was more used to the rules of evidence than she was, and could not accept her positive conclusion so readily as she would have liked to have him.
She would have liked a new dress as much as any other girl, but she meant to go and have a good time at any rate.
She would have liked to tear it into a thousand pieces, but she had no right to treat it in that way.
She was a coquette and made eyes; she did not mind showing her bare arms and neck under her half open gown; she would have liked to turn Christophe's head, but it was all purely instinctive.
She would have liked him to be rich and famous; but if those advantages could only be bought at the price of so much unpleasantness she much preferred not to bother about them.
She would have liked a tussle with her mother; it would have been more romantic.
Man, where are your eyes anyway, she would have liked to exclaim.
She would have liked to creep into the piano, and give her soul the opportunity it sought to express itself in the tones that came from the strings.
She would have liked to make a clean confession to him, but she was not certain how he would take it: she was afraid he would turn back, enraged at her cunning.
She would have liked to give an answer; certain sentences of her niece brought crushing refusals to her lips, but she had to remain mute and allow Therese to plead her cause without once interrupting her.
She would have liked to always have guests there, to hear a noise, something to divert her, and detach her from her thoughts.
She felt as if she would have liked to have been deaf.
She struggled, she would have liked to run away; no, she would hear nothing, nothing at all.
Mrs. Tiralla was filled with a wild fury; she would have liked to hurl her husband out of the carriage.
She was seized with a violent fit of fury, she would have liked to destroy everything, smash everything to pieces.
She would have liked to stop up her ears so as not to hear that twanging music.
She would have liked to drive the dart deeper, to make him still unhappier!
She would have liked, he thought, to play the great lady with him already, as Aldous Raeburn's betrothed.
She would have liked to warn Urania against the marchesa, the prince and the monsignori who had taken Rudyard's place, but especially against marriage, even marriage with a prince and duke.
She would have liked to have left him out of this concert altogether, and it was only because she had no one else whom she could depend upon that she consented to let him go off in search of the necessary tenor.
She would have liked to hear him enthusiastic, but he said that Monsignor was no more than an Oxford don with a taste for dogma and for a cardinal's hat.
She would have liked to, but her accompanist was coming at half-past ten.
She would have liked to stand up in her carriage and sing aloud, nothing seemed to matter, until she remembered that she must not make a fool of herself before Lady Duckle.
His voice appealed to her, but when she looked at him, she felt as if she would have liked to run away.
She would have liked to go in and tell Black Marianne everything, but gave up the idea.
The relatives of Farmer Rodel gave Barefoot a few garments that had belonged to the old man; she would have liked to refuse them, but realized that it would not do to show a spirit of obstinacy just now.
She would have liked to make all the young lads masons, and then to have sent them out on their travels that they might bring back news of her John.
She would have liked to ask her father if Corey was sick; she would have liked him to ask her why Corey did not come any more.
His wife was of a different mind; she would have liked them to go to some private school for their finishing.
She would have liked to forget him, but there was something about the man which made this impossible.
She would have liked to interpret this as signifying that he had accepted her refusal as final, but some inward prompting warned her that Brett was not the man to be so easily turned aside from his purpose.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she would have liked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
