Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 'd made it you 'd presumably insist it was Irish stew . |
| 2 | You can rid of the ‘ DO — IT ! ’ at the end of you 'd rather check it manually . |
| 3 | and he says no I , I reckon I had a word with our Margaret she said no it do n't matter , but if that 's gon na be the case I 'd rather give it to him back , I mean I 've got it |
| 4 | If you 're keeping your spouse because you have the assets and he or she does n't , there 's no good leaving nothing to the spouse , unless that spouse is rich in his or her own right Rich in comparative terms , then there may be good reasons not to live him or her anything because you 'd rather leave it to the children . |
| 5 | I mean I 'd rather leave it if I can until it does |
| 6 | ‘ She 'd rather fix it herself if she can , sir , I do know that . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd rather do it with sheep . ’ |
| 8 | If you were the last woman left alive on this bloody earth , I think I 'd rather do it for myself . |
| 9 | She 'd rather do it herself than dictate to Paula . ’ |
| 10 | He failed to quote chapter and verse when Apricot asked him to , and then said it was a personal matter , in any case : if he was going into the priesthood he 'd rather do it celibate . |
| 11 | He did offer to come to Oxford , but I said I 'd rather do it in London . |
| 12 | ‘ But I wanted it all to be as it used to be so I said I 'd rather do it myself . ’ |
| 13 | I had to promise them a press conference , and I thought you 'd rather do it now , old son . |
| 14 | No he 'll be at school , just me and you , scrubbing away at the floor you 'd rather do it with Christopher would n't you ? |
| 15 | I 'd rather do it myself . |
| 16 | He 'd rather do it at night ! |
| 17 | Yeah I 'd rather do it Monday . |
| 18 | They 'd rather cook it fresh . |
| 19 | Turning down ‘ loads of really tacky telly ’ , he decided he 'd rather slog it out on the alternative circuit than settle for being the new Bobby Davro . |
| 20 | and I 'd rather make it , it went all the way up to there |
| 21 | Commercial organisations like the Co-operative Retail Society , the Co-operative Wholesale Society , Marks & Spencer and Iceland have expressed their horror that the Government should so abdicate their responsibility as to say , ’ We shall do nothing if you break the law , ’ and weakly add the unconvincing refrain , as the Home Office Minister did , ’ But we 'd rather like it if you did n't . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Actually I think I 'd rather like it . |
| 23 | Personally , from the point of view of nature conservancy , I 'd rather see it left unspoiled . ’ |
| 24 | but it 's I 'd rather see it bodged and some credibility left with district and city councils than er a hole that |
| 25 | I think I would actually like to pursue that point Group Captain but I I think I 'd rather pursue it in in the closed session than an open session . |
| 26 | If I 'm going to snuff it , I 'd rather snuff it with a pint in my fist than one of their bloody mugs of Ovaltine . |
| 27 | I 'd rather have it doing that than lifting the front and shaking its head . ’ |
| 28 | It 's one metre cubed , it 's one point eight , erm , er , but , do n't know actually , I 'd rather have it in centimetres . |
| 29 | I 'd rather have it too big than than |
| 30 | So I 'd rather have it four times |