Example sentences of "[pron] would [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'll tell you this , I 'd rather go 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis than face a 25-yarder from our full-back Clive Freeman ! |
| 2 | I 'd rather eat cold fat . |
| 3 | I 'd rather have that shape you can cut . |
| 4 | Such games are usually very playable but BTTF is so poorly executed , I 'd rather have Corky stand on my head than play this drivel again . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd rather have another drink , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 6 | I 've come to terms with it , it does n't bother whether I 've got it or not , but to be honest I 'd rather have more hair than I do now . |
| 7 | I 'd rather fill this page with angry letters attacking people who are entertained/moved by fascism , racism , homophobia , whether it 's Morrissey ‘ exploring its fascination ’ or someone scooping out their own shit and trying to sell it to us as ‘ common sense ’ , than have another letter like yours , the first half ( not printed here , lucky readers ) of which is something incomprehensible about The Wedding Present — DQ |
| 8 | I 'd rather take that approach , and what I would suggest is that , wherever possible , teachers should think about involving parents in the kinds of difficulties that the child is having in school , and thereby becomes a team effort rather than parents working one direction and perhaps teachers working in another . |
| 9 | I 'd normally send young Henri to pick anybody up but Vice-Admiral Hawkins and the two no doubt equally distinguished civilians who are with him are not anybody . |
| 10 | But I mean basically , that means that for the , tomorrow morning 's breakfast programme , I want a package including lots of different views , but for drive time which is five till six in the evening , I just want a straightforward , two minute head-to-head , one-to-one interview but for lunchtime which is C A T O , which is Cambridgeshire at One , which is our lunchtime programme , I 'd like you to put all the views into a script of about forty seconds , and do n't forget , for the two o'clock bulletin , which is a very short one , I 'd just like three sentences of copy which sums up the story . |
| 11 | I 'd just like some clarification of what , what this resolution from budget review actually means . |
| 12 | If I did , I 'd just put another amp up . |
| 13 | I 'd also like some advice about a couple of things . |
| 14 | He 'd threaten that I 'd not get any money the next week , but I always managed to . |
| 15 | I 'd sooner have cold meat than . |
| 16 | ‘ Eeh , I never thought I 'd ever have any clothes like this , ’ she said , stroking the material of the blue dress . |
| 17 | The make-up 's brilliant — and I 'd definitely wear this catsuit . ’ |
| 18 | Q I 'd really love some oomph in my hair and my hairdresser says I 'll only get it with a perm . |
| 19 | I 'd really like some breakfast . |
| 20 | Course I 'd never carry that bag again . |
| 21 | I 'd never set much store by rational argument where Karen was concerned . |
| 22 | I 'd never call any child of mine Terry . |
| 23 | ‘ He warned me that I 'd never get much credit — that people would be dismissive of my part in the great tradition , ’ said Carrick . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd never get another bath . ’ |
| 25 | It 's like I 'd never put those steps in their shed you know , in case people sort of like |
| 26 | As a person , you know , I 'd never have any time . |
| 27 | ‘ Natural colours are flattering , ’ she says , ‘ I 'd never use fluorescent green ! ’ |
| 28 | I 'd happily take this camera on my adventurous travels . |
| 29 | ‘ I would rather make pragmatic progress than theoretical progress . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah a lot of people do that , they , I mean , go on the train shopping do n't they , I know a lot of people who are and I would rather sit ten minutes or twenty minutes . |