Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd rather sleep on the floor than have to share a bed with you . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Lady , I 'd rather sleep with a nestful of vipers , though frankly I 'm not sure I 'd be able to tell the difference . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd rather sleep in the gutter than let that happen . |
| 4 | I 'd rather stay in the Brotherhood and try to persuade them to adopt the national agreements . ’ |
| 5 | He told club members who rushed to help him : ‘ I 'd rather go for a pint with my mates . ’ |
| 6 | Even with all his bills to pay he 'd rather go to the pub . |
| 7 | I 'd like to go to the hospital I 'd rather go to the hospital . |
| 8 | Oh yes I 'd rather go to the corner shop |
| 9 | Oh right , yeah , I 'd rather go up the road , stupid |
| 10 | I 'd rather go in the shop and see it cos sometimes , especially if it 's got a pattern on turn out to be better than the catalogue cos when it comes , it do n't look the same , and then the same colour do you ? |
| 11 | unless you produce contracts , which is cheap , exactly , I 'd rather pay for the quality |
| 12 | I have to admit I 'm not as eager to give money or pictures , say , to a Carnegie Museum as to a Museum of Modern Art , and I 'd rather give to the Museum of Modern Art than the Guggenheim Museum . |
| 13 | He 's not a proper father : he 'd rather talk to a foreigner than come and find his own son . |
| 14 | They 'd rather sit on the factory floor and eat their snap , without even washing their hands . |
| 15 | Given a straight choice , I 'd rather sit by a slug . |
| 16 | They 'd rather settle for a return of their money , if it came to that . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd rather depend on a surfer in an emergency than anyone else . |
| 18 | I 'd rather walk down the road naked than put that thing on . ’ |
| 19 | Denmark 's a prison and he 'd rather live in a nutshell ; some shadow-play about the nature of ambition , which never got down to cases , and finally one direct question which might have led somewhere , and led in fact to his illuminating claim to tell a hawk from a handsaw . |
| 20 | I think I 'd rather live in the park than go to the smelly old place . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd rather live in the house with you and your mum , ’ I said , smiling , ‘ but if it 's what you want , then I 'm happy to oblige . ’ |
| 22 | And she 'd rather jump on a pony and go ! |
| 23 | But I 'll tell you this , ’ she glared at him , her heart pounding , ‘ I 'd rather work around the clock to get the money back to my father in time than spend one minute longer than I have to with a selfish , bad-tempered misery who was obviously born an expert at everything . ’ |
| 24 | Well , I 'd rather work in a shop , among people . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd rather work in a place like that , where we can face problems and move them on and develop things carefully , than to work in some places in the country where things are so far off agenda , as it were , as to be impossible . |
| 26 | If he 's an ero I 'd rather stick with the zero ! |
| 27 | I 'd rather run against the world champion and finish sixth in a good race in Aberdeen than win by 50 metres and not be pushed at Middlesbrough . ’ |
| 28 | He 'd gladly wade into the attack . |
| 29 | He 'd only go for a couple of hours to his London office . |
| 30 | not to Cath , no he went in the porch , he 'd only go in the porch to Audrey and tell Audrey not to go in |