Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with all his bills to pay he 'd rather go to the pub . |
| 2 | I 'd like to go to the hospital I 'd rather go to the hospital . |
| 3 | Oh yes I 'd rather go to the corner shop |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He 's not a proper father : he 'd rather talk to a foreigner than come and find his own son . |
| 6 | Plays , too , ai n't my line much ; I 'd sooner go to a dance — it 's more livelier . |
| 7 | I never really listened to The Beatles and looked out for the guitar , I 'd just listen to the song as a whole . |
| 8 | I 'd just come to a point . ’ |
| 9 | They used to do that : the chief inspector walking down on a Saturday morning in full regalia and one of these fellows would nod and they 'd always walk to the corner , and the Chief would n't say anything about it because they were on the corner and not causing any obstruction . |
| 10 | We had a quick , worried debate about whether to call an ambulance but decided we 'd probably get to the hospital quicker under our own steam . |
| 11 | He vowed there and then he 'd never return to a tournament like that ; he felt that a man of his stature should n't be playing in what was , after all , a second-rate event while the Masters was on . |
| 12 | He had concluded that the new strategy would eventually lead to a resumption of the armed struggle , but , more dubiously , had gone on to suppose that civil rights activities could be treated as if they were an armed insurrection . |
| 13 | Some went to town on Bolivia 's planetary responsibility , warning that such barbarian customs would eventually lead to the flooding of New York and Miami and the extinction of the human race . |
| 14 | Marx believed that the following aspects of capitalist society would eventually lead to the proletariat developing into a class for itself . |
| 15 | Marx believed that these and other contradictions would eventually lead to the downfall of the capitalist system . |
| 16 | By contrast , the only regular ‘ supporter ’ was Kitty Little , a long-standing pro-nuclear activist whose persistent promotion of the fast breeder reactor was matched only by her equally persistent belief that the British anti-nuclear campaign was part of an international plot incorporating the Rothschilds and President Carter and which would eventually lead to the imposition of an ‘ atheist Marxist-Leninist dictatorship ’ . |
| 17 | In terms of female users , this can be particularly tragic as in the following case , where the woman did not seek treatment because she assumed that this would eventually lead to the placing of a care order on her children : |
| 18 | This work , it is true , was largely conducted in the belief that simply gathering information alone would eventually lead to an understanding of the brain , but the fact remains that we now have an impressive body of evidence against which to evaluate the new theories that are emerging . |
| 19 | Also , his experience of the frequently inept English resistance doubtless caused him to guess that it would eventually weaken to the point where he would be accepted as king . |
| 20 | When she left the desert , and the Sandrat knew she would eventually come to the end of the sand , the face would be waiting for her . |
| 21 | Indeed , their conquerors would soon find him too much to handle , and his term of exile and the exile of his people would eventually come to an end . |
| 22 | If you both wa if you both would rather go to the hospital you ca n't do that . |
| 23 | But Franco was tougher than expected and the interview failed ; after it Hitler is supposed to have said he would rather go to the dentist than meet Franco again . |
| 24 | He would never expressly suggest that one or two might go down , but would rather point to an accumulation of profits as deriving from several shares and not just one . |
| 25 | They were men of such unyielding integrity ( they would only admit to a fault in order to show how it might be overcome ) that the wavering personality of a child could not rest for long against those monumental shoulders . |
| 26 | He waited in growing irritation while a woman minutely described her missing cat , and impressed on the desk-sergeant that it would only answer to the name Roger . |
| 27 | If the case had been one of estoppel , it might be said that in any event the estoppel would cease when the conditions to which the representation applied came to an end , or it also might be said that it would only come to an end on notice . |
| 28 | Different thoughts , but one thought : Secord would suddenly explode to the interpreter , ‘ He 's still not talking about the god-damned hostage thing ! ’ ; or , in North 's exasperated words , ‘ if we 're really sincere about this whole friggin' thing … they ought to be exercising every possible amount of leverage they 've got to get those people out . ’ |
| 29 | It does not , of course , follow that because markets are of only limited effectiveness that legal intervention , in the shape of a more active liability regime or a reformed governance structure , would necessarily lead to an outcome closer to the ideal , since the costs of intervention may exceed the benefits . |
| 30 | As neither an exchange rate union , nor an intercirculation union , nor a parallel currency union would necessarily lead to the Community 's complete monetary integration , these forms of monetary union are inconsistent with the objectives of the Single European Act . |