Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate having my tea stirred for me , I 'd rather stir my own tea . |
| 2 | I 'd rather eat my shorts ! |
| 3 | At first we just made conversation , but after a couple of drinks Reid looked at me thoughtfully , twiddling his half-empty glass , and said , ‘ There 's no reason not to tell you this , Kit , but since we 've got to work together , I 'd rather explain my mode of living before the old cats on the island — the European gossips — start telling you stories . |
| 4 | No I 'd rather do my english . |
| 5 | I 'd rather exercise my brain a bit with something creative . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd rather exercise my brain a bit with something creative . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd rather use my own , ’ said Brian Everthorpe , enjoying the joke hugely . |
| 8 | After all , a guitar tech 's job has to depend on such accuracy , and if it were my job then I 'd rather put my faith in the R450 than a box-load of pocket tuners . |
| 9 | Maybe she 'd rather see her friend first , even if she had to cry after , ’ Nick said . |
| 10 | I 'd rather see our dog kill our Brian ! |
| 11 | Just shows you what her priorities are really rather than handsome man she 'd rather have her jewels . |
| 12 | Oh yeah , erm , oh I 'd rather have our climate I think . |
| 13 | It 's the same as that place in Australia where they have n't seen rain for seventeen years , I mean there 's children who are grown up now at college have never seen a spot of rain , I 'd hate that I 'd rather have our , sometimes dismal climate . |
| 14 | I think I 'd rather have my Tagamet because of that |
| 15 | He 'd rather say his mother died but she did n't . |
| 16 | I 'd rather cut my throat than go into an institution ’ . |
| 17 | Right if you do n't agree do n't er do say please do say because if you do n't agree I 'd rather hear your views |
| 18 | I 'd rather keep my dignity . " |
| 19 | I 'd rather keep our — friendship — strictly businesslike . ’ |
| 20 | It is n't just bad behaviour that makes us wish the ground would open under us : there are times when you 'd gladly disown your child when she gets to the top of the slide , freezes there and screams hysterically to be carried down . |
| 21 | If you was describing that man you 'd all get his clothes I bet , but I bet there 's three things you would forget about him , straight away . |
| 22 | And that 's all we had there and we were for ever getting flooded out and there we we 'd all clean our shoes before going to bed at night put 'em all underneath the sideboard or whatever . |
| 23 | Although I do seem to remember a little scene after you 'd carelessly cut your hand at the fountain , when I mentioned a few more personal attributes that were to my liking . ’ |
| 24 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 25 | He 'd obviously put his own glass down , because he halted her by grabbing her shoulders and bringing her to a halt . |
| 26 | She 'd obviously hit her head during the impact because there was a small trickle of blood on her forehead . |
| 27 | It 's important that you do n't leave your children with anyone you 're not happy about — you 'd only spend your entire evening out worrying about it . |
| 28 | At this rate she would have an accident , and she 'd only have her own stubbornness to blame for it . |
| 29 | They 'd already split their team to cover both the gym and some other place , and then split it again to follow you , so Blagg only got the leftovers , spotted them , and took to the hills . ’ |
| 30 | I do remember we 'd already put his full name on the car and had to remove the last part of it . ’ |