Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would you rather have — a charge or a general thinning out of staffing levels — and almost unanimously it was ‘ We 'd rather pay a reasonable charge ’ . |
| 2 | a cream , yeah , a cream telly you know , oh I 'll have that one he says when you sell it , oh Christ almighty , I thought I was , excuse me perhaps I , I would like a teletext one , just get , you know I do n't want , I 'm not sort I do n't like the colour , I 'd rather see a white one in the corner |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd rather have a corned beef sandwich . ’ |
| 4 | But we 'd rather have a major scare that turned out to be a false alarm than the real thing and a late start , sir . ’ |
| 5 | Well , frankly , I 'd rather have a little mud than a hatchet thrown at my back . |
| 6 | So sorry can I just ask , so in effect you have n't shifted your ground from the view which you expressed in paragraph three point six of your submission where you 've just confirmed in fact that you 'd rather have a proper or the ability to make a sort of proper measured allocations , part of which would make provision or allow the facility to cater for major inward investment ? |
| 7 | If you 'd rather have a cold drink |
| 8 | I 'd rather play a different version . |
| 9 | They 'd , they 'd all have a little bash , one or two fingers you know , I did even on , on , on one particular one . |
| 10 | And erm when I 'd finished with him I 'd perhaps get a two or three specked apples or a banana or something like you see . |
| 11 | I 'd much prefer a menu-driven program built into WordPerfect itself . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm so glad — because you 'd obviously make a marvellous mother , ’ she said enthusiastically . |
| 13 | I 'd only shoot a little bird if it was dead , if it was like half dead , like if Joe had shot it al |
| 14 | Make , make the resistance a hundred times what it was you 'd only get a hundredth of the current . |
| 15 | Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . . |
| 16 | and I I found I 'd just put a hundred there instead and that 's why I put two hundred |
| 17 | I 've seen them , but I mean if , if they saw anything , I think they 'd just turn a blind eye to most of it . |
| 18 | I think erm what , what we , what I 'd really like to do is if I could get in touch with him and give him the chance to make up his own mind er then he could decide whether or not he would like to have a chat with me and I 'd just run a few ideas by him , just as you 've done , without any pressure er and he can make his own decisions . |
| 19 | I mean , you 'd think he 'd just have a few enough to make a pie or a crumble |
| 20 | Well they 'd just get a suitable field to keep the whole lot . |
| 21 | She 'd just box a few ears , knock a few heads together like she did with the Rattries , and chase them off . |
| 22 | Erm wi if you had the accommodation of both houses downstairs , you 'd have you 'd easily have a good size sitting room . |
| 23 | You 'd always put a ten bob note in . |
| 24 | Chairman Sir Anthony Tennant rightly predicted that many of us would be too hard up to stand a round of drinks in the pub anymore — but that we 'd still fancy a cheap tipple at home . |
| 25 | Even if things did n't go to plan , we 'd still have a useful resort property … |
| 26 | Mind you they 'd probably get a hundred thousand for theirs I should think now . |
| 27 | The law could n't do much to her , and she 'd probably get a few columns . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course with your looks you 'd probably have a marvellous time . |
| 29 | They 'd probably have a fifty thousand pound mortgage to pay off the the existing mortgage on that one and the balance . |
| 30 | We 'd heard he had thirty billion pounds to spend on tanks and things and we reckoned that when he left he 'd probably have a little bit left over for a tip . |