Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | I 'd sooner have cold meat than . |
| 15 | ‘ Eeh , I never thought I 'd ever have any clothes like this , ’ she said , stroking the material of the blue dress . |
| 16 | The make-up 's brilliant — and I 'd definitely wear this catsuit . ’ |
| 17 | Q I 'd really love some oomph in my hair and my hairdresser says I 'll only get it with a perm . |
| 18 | I 'd really like some breakfast . |
| 19 | Course I 'd never carry that bag again . |
| 20 | I 'd never set much store by rational argument where Karen was concerned . |
| 21 | I 'd never call any child of mine Terry . |
| 22 | ‘ He warned me that I 'd never get much credit — that people would be dismissive of my part in the great tradition , ’ said Carrick . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd never get another bath . ’ |
| 24 | It 's like I 'd never put those steps in their shed you know , in case people sort of like |
| 25 | As a person , you know , I 'd never have any time . |
| 26 | ‘ Natural colours are flattering , ’ she says , ‘ I 'd never use fluorescent green ! ’ |
| 27 | I 'd happily take this camera on my adventurous travels . |
| 28 | ‘ I would rather make pragmatic progress than theoretical progress . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I have said consistently we do n't want to be the first in the industry , I would rather await either N A C O T , N A C O M or the U D M seeing what they , the outcome is there as we have traditionally done and then take it from there where you must agree that we have usually improved on their offer when it 's been made . |