Example sentences of "much [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can go to London tomorrow — I 'd much prefer to drive there with you than go by train . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 3 | L would myself much prefer to wait on just one diner , even if he were a total stranger . |
| 4 | ‘ Believe me , my dear Shiona , if I could , I 'd much prefer to say something pleasant . ’ |
| 5 | In the profession I would much prefer to see work generated by the directors , and the casting directors taking more trouble to go round and see the actor at work , taking people on the basis of work they had already seen . |
| 6 | In a Commons statement , Mr Clarke said : ‘ We would very much prefer to see a full accident and emergency service provided by trained ambulancemen , but that is impossible while the unions continue to insist on the 14 conditions which they have imposed . |
| 7 | They would not proscribe the teaching of fine art , archaeology or music — but would much prefer to see British colleges turning out many more vocation-ally-trained graduates in science , technology and business management . |
| 8 | I always said to them I would much prefer to supply fifty per cent of the monthly usage , spread it out throughout the year . |
| 9 | They compelled officials to investigate matters they would much prefer to keep out of : all for the administration of a basically unworkable rule . |
| 10 | He was her sole reason for getting up at all , the only incentive to clothe and feed herself and drag herself from her bedroom where she would much prefer to stay . |
| 11 | We buy theatre tickets and have the restaurant booked when , if we stopped and checked what we actually wanted to do , we might find we would much prefer to stay at home and have an early night . ’ |
| 12 | I would much prefer to buy your share from you . ’ |
| 13 | They are heavy , poor thermal insulators , and need much labour to manipulate and time to set . |
| 14 | A shy bird , much preferring to run than to fly . |
| 15 | Bob Henry , you must be aware of some of the criticisms which were levelled at the companies which were put out by arts associations , where they say really it 's very self-indulgent and nobody much goes to see this particular type of dance group . |
| 16 | He was a quiet man , not much given to open or abandoned laughter , mainly because he thought laughing made him look like a horse — which it did rather ! |
| 17 | I am not much given to anger , but there is something indecent about these raw pink naïveties . |
| 18 | Topsel warns that playing with them may destroy the lungs and corrupt the air : ‘ There was a certain company of Monks much given to nourish and play with Cats , whereby they were so infected , that within a short space none of them were able to say , read , pray , or sing , in all the Monastery . |
| 19 | The utilitarian theorists — such as L W Sumner and Joseph Fletcher — reject moral absolutes , but still rely on deductive reasoning to arrive at moral principles and are much given to abstract statements like ‘ a fetus is a human being which is not yet a person ’ . |
| 20 | Jarvis did n't much want to do any of these things , but he did want to go up north and admire the old Glasgow PIE , not to mention going back to ride once more San Francisco 's BART , which tunnels deeply through the rock under the Bay . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't know her then , ’ he said , repressively , uneasily conscious that he had given Francesca no thought at all that day and did n't much want to think about her now . |
| 22 | In recent years , attention has increasingly focussed on the needs of these carers , who may very much want to care but who may need practical help and advice as well as emotional support . |
| 23 | ’ I do n't much want to get anywhere , ’ I mumbled . |
| 24 | I did n't much want to share anything with a grossly fat man wearing nothing but one of the lately fashionable cherub costumes — consisting solely of two small white wings glued to his blubbery back . |
| 25 | ‘ I do so much want to congratulate you and your parish on the televised celebration of your Mass for the Feast of Christ the King yesterday . |
| 26 | ‘ His actual presence gave me a shock , ’ said Crossman then , ‘ and I much regret to have to admit finding something barbaric in his violent stage mannerisms . ’ |
| 27 | In the same way when you are elderly and live alone , it may seem like too much bother to cook just for yourself . |
| 28 | Families may have to share lavatories with other families or it may be inconveniently placed and so parents find that it is too much bother to take children to the lavatory and continue to let them soil . |
| 29 | Too much bother to fetch a raincoat . |
| 30 | The adaptation of linguistic terms like mood and of rhetorical terms like ellipsis is not so much designed to construct rigid parallels either with language or with rhetoric , but rather is itself a rhetorical device for freeing narrative from any referential interpretation . |