Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] rather [subord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | noted in the 1890s that many sons would prefer to move rather than accept legal compulsion , and that their own old parents would often see relief as a right : ‘ the aged prefer a pittance from the parish ( regarded as their due ) to compulsory maintenance by children ; compulsion makes such aid very bitter . ’ |
| 2 | I 've sometimes made some rather awful mistakes when I have thought first about what I would like to give rather than what my friends would like to receive , so do try to find out before you embark on a special garment . |
| 3 | Carrie would have died rather than say these things but Nick would n't be embarrassed : he could say them without turning a hair ! |
| 4 | Some would have starved rather than give up the playing . |
| 5 | The United States in particular had feared that Malaysia 's EAEG proposal — a more exclusive and ambitious trade bloc initiative — would have divided rather than drawn together the trading interests of the wider Pacific area . |