Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crumple-faced star — known for his love of the good life — once said : ‘ I 'd rather stay in the second line . |
| 2 | I , I 'd rather finish with the other question , or , or the made by the Major in the press question , are you , do you want to follow up the , I mean , have a vote on this if you want to ? |
| 3 | But McGrath , who has had eight operations on his knees , revealed this could be his swansong , saying : ‘ I will decide at the end of the season , but I 'd rather quit at the top than drop down to a lower level , and the knees cause me a lot of pain . |
| 4 | The ex-Manchester United star admitted : ‘ I 'd rather quit at the top than drop to a lower level . |
| 5 | The Queen should not , in your opinion , abdicate in favour of Prince Charles ( 61% ) , and those of you who answered the question , ‘ Is there any member of the Royal family you 'd rather see as the future king/queen ? ’ , chose the Princess Royal ( placing her way out ahead of the Princess of Wales ) . |
| 6 | If you 're one of those people who 'd rather err on the safe side , the best advice is to avoid meat products which use scraps from cattle bones , such as pate and some cheap sausages . |
| 7 | You 'd just go through the whole disastrous fiasco all over again , because not one thing about you has changed . ’ |
| 8 | But they would n't take that trouble , but they 'd always speak to the uniform policemen , if or if they heard anyone smashing glass , but they would n't go out of their way . |
| 9 | On Fridays we 'd often go to the Royal College of Art where they used to have these great shows which went on till three or four o'clock in the morning . |
| 10 | Of course , they 'd immediately jump to the wrong conclusion and think I was talking about a girlfriend , and I 'd get some almighty teasing , but the joke was on them ! |
| 11 | ‘ The amateurs do things you 'd never see in the commercial stuff , ’ I was told by one connoisseur of raunch , who I found sitting on the floor of a porn shop |
| 12 | ‘ The amateurs do things you 'd never see in the commercial stuff , ’ I was told by one connoisseur of raunch , an unemployed factory worker named Jesse who I found sitting on the floor of a porn shop in Manhattan 's Times Square , diligently sifting through dozens of the more hardcore amateur tapes . |
| 13 | Some invitations would discreetly hint at the minimum subscription but the best Guest Teas never did . |
| 14 | The terms of the agreement cannily provided that the American groups should each equip and run a manufacturing-cum-service facility — all on one site — but that the whole show would eventually pass to the Greek government . |
| 15 | Although the impact was perhaps less calamitous than in Scotland 's heavy industry , the blows dealt by the collapse of orders in the 1930s would eventually lead to the permanent eclipse of Edinburgh as a printing capital . |
| 16 | It is not disputed by the Legal Aid Board , and indeed it is obvious , that the existing practice is highly convenient and may avoid unnecessary costs being incurred which would eventually fall on the legal aid fund if it were necessary in every case to set in motion a procedure for filing of evidence . |
| 17 | It also enhanced the national rivalries that would eventually touch off the First World War . |
| 18 | She would gladly pay for the additional units but these would cost only to be made available . |
| 19 | A MediaStar source says : ‘ There was no battle over who should take charge of a merged media operation , simply a decision by clients that they would rather continue with the same team . |
| 20 | A piece of pastureland adjoining had been given by the Laird , so dense was the population of the dead in that rank square ; but the people would not use it , they would rather return to the hallowed earth of the dead from whose collective and immortal life they had themselves briefly emerged … ‘ |
| 21 | He would rather fight in the open than wait to murder the other when he falls asleep , but is so much the weaker that to fight without an advantage would amount to suicide . |
| 22 | And to set criteria for this strategic site exception policy which we feel should be added to the plan , to set this criteria in such a way that it would so point to the local authorities in the making of their local plans but it was clear that the policy did not provide a speculative opportunity for everybody any landowner throughout the county . |
| 23 | In Vl the cells would only respond to the double grating if one of the two moved in the preferred direction of the cell as tested with simple stimuli . |
| 24 | The two companies would keep separate identities and would only cooperate on the one service . |
| 25 | The Ministry of Defence objected on three grounds : the increase in nuclear missiles available to the West was operationally unnecessary and would only add to the existing nuclear overkill ; mixed manning was a formula for military disaster ; and the cost of the British share would have to come out of the already overstretched Defence budget . |
| 26 | … But there were times , when they were alone in the house together — and even though the Rabbi might be in his own room teasing out a bissle Talmud — his attention would suddenly stray from the holy words and he would become uncomfortably aware of some dybbuk , some spirit of unhappiness , brooding in the kitchen . |
| 27 | The first generation might practise some " levelling " — an adaptation and " evening-out " of any highly marked regionalisms in their speech — but would basically stick to the linguistic habits they brought with them from the Caribbean . |
| 28 | As Brailsford had noted some years earlier : ‘ The decline of our trade with Germany , Russia and Austria would alone account for the whole volume of our present unemployment . ’ |
| 29 | It was evident that the skilled soldiers would naturally gravitate to the tougher units , like the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , giving the Legion a regiment full of highly-trained soldiers who had received their instruction at somebody else 's expense . |
| 30 | Interest was minimal ; the fatal shooting of a small-town shopkeeper would n't make much of a splash , the ripples would scarcely extend to the National dailies . |