Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Madam my mother , I would much much rather remain here with you . ’ |
| 2 | In September 1944 he was able to return to his academic duties , but soon after the war ended he was stricken by chronic illness and did relatively little research thereafter . |
| 3 | I must explain that I do not like combined heater stats ; in general I find that the heater part packs up within a year , as , regrettably do modern heaters , and I would rather throw away a £5 heater than a £10 plus heater stat . |
| 4 | Beyond perhaps a specialist 12-inch dance market , it will eventually disappear completely . |
| 5 | If the pair of you would rather stay away , then so be it ; but you must not be surprised if the rest of us refuse to be inconvenienced by such behaviour . ’ |
| 6 | ESC founders Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington director and star of the Shakespeare tragedy say they would rather stay away from the Civic , one of the strongest dates on their world tours , than face the same problem again . |
| 7 | I 'd rather stay near you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If what you say is true , ’ I said , ‘ I think I 'd rather stay here . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , would you rather stay here in this prison ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd rather stay here . |
| 11 | But if you 'd really rather stay here , I 'll go and fetch your husband . |
| 12 | ‘ I think I 'd rather stay here because it 's fixed now , but I do n't really like comprehensive schools that much . |
| 13 | ‘ I mean , I do want to go , in a way , but in another way I 'd rather stay here . |
| 14 | I 'd much rather stay here another week , but I do n't suppose she 'd hear of it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I would rather stay here with father and you , ’ said Tess , looking out of the window . |
| 16 | Anyway , I 'd rather stay here with you . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps you 'd rather stay here and read your riveting book . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , I suppose we had better get on , although I 'd much rather stay here and hear what you 've been doing , and I would be interested , in spite of what you might think . ’ |
| 19 | I would rather stay here . |
| 20 | I 'd rather stay here |
| 21 | Hamilton resolutely destroyed the patriotic myth that most Scots would kill to wear the navy jersey when he told the press , ‘ I 'd rather stay home and play golf . ’ |
| 22 | Me , I 'd rather stay inside . ’ |
| 23 | the fostering of an impersonal approach to health and medical care , where the machine intrudes between the patient and the doctor , and may thereby affect deleteriously the development of caring personal relationships . |
| 24 | In any case , Rothstein says , networks will eventually fall apart under their own weight without the arrival of object-oriented technologies . |
| 25 | Perhaps the differences between the men were what caused their plans to eventually fall apart , but I think it was a combination of Cassius 's selfishness , Brutus 's nobility , and extremely bad luck which finally finished off the conspirators . |
| 26 | It comprises nearly 150 oil paintings , collages , gouaches and sculptures from all periods of Picasso 's career and is a rich illustration of the opinion advanced by John Richardson in the first volume of his biography of the artist that still-life was a subject which Picasso ‘ would eventually explore more exhaustively and develop more imaginatively than any other artist in history ’ . |
| 27 | If he is the cause of the trouble , then it sounds very much like territoriality , not food-seeking ; a territorial cichlid will rarely attack much smaller fish , especially non-cichlids , but will go for territory contestants , viz other cichlids and especially conspecifics . |
| 28 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 29 | I shall therefore look more closely at their teachings , partly because of the ecumenical value of an awareness of their doctrine , but mainly because we can thereby focus much more clearly upon what religions mean by ‘ God ’ . |
| 30 | If that 's the way you think , then I 'd rather know now than later . ’ |