Sentence examples for should like to think from inspiring English sources

I should like to think that this honour pleases him as much, if not more, than his astonishing sales figures.

Although I should like to think the commercial department had a word about Keys rather rushing his later live ad for floor tiles (£8.99 a pack, down from £17.99, in case you missed it).

"Finally, being conscious of the popular and dark pastime of wondering aloud how much was spent, or lost, I should like to think that I 'left behind' value which will hopefully endure and benefit this beloved old club.

Eliot wrote: "I should like to think that the manuscript, with the suppressed passages, had disappeared irrecoverably; yet, on the other hand, I should wish the blue pencilling on it to be preserved as irrefutable evidence of Pound's critical genius".

We should like to think that this will be the basis of the negotiating approach under the Dutch presidency, in terms of content and method.

If he can stay away from his homeland, he should do well; I like to think of him being tempted by California — not by the beckoning forefingers of major studios but by the slow burn of the light.

Fiction, I'd like to think, should offer the freedom to tackle these subjects; there should be a kind of presumption of artistic innocence.

Asked why this should be, he replies: "I like to think it's because I'm only human.

'Damn it, [the murderers] didn't care, so why should I?' But I'd like to think I'm better than that," Young said.

"I would like to think we should take the Holy Father at his word".

Loveliness, like namelessness, is part of the deal, and, while nobody would be so cruel as to call her thin, I like to think that, should the modelling jobs ever dwindle, she could carve out a second career as a spring onion.