Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | hailing from bonny Glasgow but destined for world domination , One Dove are one of the more permanent fixtures of a transient club scene and , despite the innocuous chemical reference , they 'd rather whisper sweet nothings in your ear than whip you into a frenzy of fancy footwork . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 3 | I 'd rather eat cold fat . |
| 4 | They do n't like to be tied down to certain types of delay ; they 'd rather leave that sort of decision until the mix . ’ |
| 5 | I mean if you 'd rather get them if you 'd rather save fifty P . |
| 6 | I 'd rather have that shape you can cut . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd rather have another drink , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 10 | We 'd rather lose some riders than have any dissatisfied because they chose the wrong holiday . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Particularly as normally he 'd rather run that mile than chat up a nurse ! |
| 13 | Well , she does buy vegetables , but she 'd rather buy frozen veg , 'cos it 's just easy for her , dead easy for her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yeah stand yeah stand anywhere and fellow with his er little monkey on and children as you know asking the gentleman all sorts of questions about his monkey , you know , and the monkey 'd all dance all sorts of tricks on it you know and the kiddies used to laugh and that . |
| 16 | They 'd only drink doped water if it smelled all right to them . ’ |
| 17 | we could actually drive the monitor off the box and you 'd only need one socket . |
| 18 | Well you 'd only need four teacher 's packs oh and there 'd be five , one for the tutor and er , four teachers so you could , you know |
| 19 | If they 're not very fanciable , you say , ‘ He 's only a Tuesday , ’ meaning if he asked you out you 'd only keep one night of the week free for him . |
| 20 | I 've got a little bit here going from Mr he had to come in again and see to two lights and he 'd only take two pounds and that included the light bulb , but I paid him so that comes out of the . |
| 21 | So maybe that afternoon he 'd only get two calls done , but at least we gain more business out of it . |
| 22 | And if if this was covered up here I E this this black dot was say made white let's say , we 'd only have two matching and if that was made white we 'd have one and then if we changed at all that top row we 'd have zero matching . |
| 23 | I 'd sooner have cold meat than . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If there 's any discontinuity , you 'd normally look either side of it , |
| 26 | ‘ Thank you , dear , I can manage , if you 'd just clear that table . |
| 27 | So that means if you could line up a hundred million atoms you 'd just reach one centimetre ? |
| 28 | Just do it that way which is what you 'd normally do , on your calculator , you 'd just do sixty times three point five . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I 'd just like some clarification of what , what this resolution from budget review actually means . |