Example sentences of "would [verb] not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you know I 'd prefer not to do that . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd prefer not to divulge their names . |
| 3 | I imagine you 'd prefer not to put your head back — er — in the lion 's den just at the moment ! ’ |
| 4 | I 'd prefer not to have to lie about it myself Naturally , I sha n't volunteer the information . |
| 5 | Tuathal said , ‘ i do n't suppose you mean that , but I 'd prefer not to have heard it . |
| 6 | I 'd prefer not to have any cups of coffee thrown in my face . ’ |
| 7 | Then , while Leith was again holding down the urge to hit him , and seeing that he 'd prefer not to sack her without just cause — thereby deeply offending his cousin — he had bent and picked up his briefcase . |
| 8 | And this time she 'd know not to ask anyone to store her furniture . |
| 9 | ‘ Brownies do n't do good turns for rewards , ’ Heather told him , ‘ but , ’ she added eagerly , ‘ if you would let us use your loft as a meeting-place we 'd promise not to do any damage or make ourselves nuisances , would n't we , Shirley ? ’ |
| 10 | Have a look I 'd like not to miss that . |
| 11 | I 'd try not to disturb anyone but you know what it 's like , you can — , |
| 12 | Not a style I wish to emulate ; I prefer a kind of brisk straight-lined tidiness ; but of all the women in the world Kirsty Bull is the one I would prefer not to move in to babysit . |
| 13 | ‘ In this matter , Sir Edmund , I would prefer not to act . ’ |
| 14 | But I would prefer not to alert our Ministry of the Interior — given that this has been purely a secret service matter of the DGSE until now . |
| 15 | Some of the companies that would prefer not to do so may have something to hide . |
| 16 | Our other research has shown that some adults would prefer not to take up a full-time course and so lose the income from a full-time job . |
| 17 | This is partly because it began trying to sell to government schools only a year ago , and partly because it would prefer not to give its machines away . |
| 18 | If you would prefer not to answer it … ’ |
| 19 | At Southampton a man in a pin-striped suit said he would prefer not to talk about the crash . |
| 20 | Engineers at Ansty where the engines are built say that , in the current economic climate , they would prefer not to talk . |
| 21 | The court has a discretion , and a record holder who would prefer not to hand over the file is entitled to refuse unless the party gets a court order to disclose . |
| 22 | Several years of research into our love of meat has left me in little doubt that most of us nowadays would prefer not to face up to the carnal origins of our flesh foods . |
| 23 | In many ways , she would prefer not to know the identity or motive of her captors . |
| 24 | " … I would think it a sufficient detriment to the confider that information given in confidence is to be disclosed to persons whom he would prefer not to know of it , even though the disclosure would not be harmful to him in any positive way . " |
| 25 | I think I would be top of any seed 's list of players they would prefer not to have in their section . ’ |
| 26 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 27 | A woman told me recently that when she said that she would prefer not to have one , her obstetrician exclaimed : ‘ Not have an enema ? |
| 28 | You , I am sure , have a better use for your manpower and I would prefer not to have an officer sitting in the hall like a bailiff . ’ |
| 29 | The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have . |
| 30 | Sometimes the question of what a public authority ought to have done in performance of its duties will be politically or morally contentious , and the court would prefer not to have to pronounce on the issue . |