Example sentences of "we would rather [vb infin] " 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 | Noticeable notice that our our growth er , items er six and seven additional enforcement officer er officers for countryside protection , er we can actually like to do that and I 'll just come on to that in a moment when I get to two B but also in terms of growth er this group wants to see ten er whole time fire fighters , additional whole time fire fighters erm we wo n't get better in terms of confidence though fire engine survey this year but we we 'd rather sort of form |
| 3 | Operations support day supervisor ( security ) Stewart Eley remarked : ‘ We 'd rather check out false alarms in preference to a suspicious situation going unreported by staff . ’ |
| 4 | And again and again : ‘ We 'd rather sit down in front of the TV , or get a video . ’ |
| 5 | George continued with deliberate diffidence : ‘ It 's all rather confidential I know of course you 'll respect that ; the problem is rather whether you feel you can disclose anything from your side without an official request from Security and I 'm sure you 'll understand why we 'd rather avoid that at this stage … ’ |
| 6 | Thanks but no-thanks , we 'd rather make the programme we want to , despite the horrendous budget problems . |
| 7 | We 'd rather make money . ’ |
| 8 | Great as the kudos might be , he had second thoughts : ‘ We 'd rather play Newcastle next season . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | We 'd rather starve than go in there . |
| 11 | We 'd rather work without pay and keep our skills up . |
| 12 | Until it 's completely perfected we 'd rather keep it quiet , ’ the Governor said , glaring once again at the other man . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That 's a joke , you understand — we 'd rather have money . ’ |
| 15 | we 'd rather have a cigarette in our hands . |
| 16 | We 'd rather lose some riders than have any dissatisfied because they chose the wrong holiday . |
| 17 | We 'd rather fling the money in their faces as a mark of defiance by our readers . |
| 18 | ‘ No love , we 'd rather get back before it 's late . |
| 19 | we 'd rather get it done properly , erm , but erm , this that came yesterday morning , he reckons it , that he can do the whole of the bedroom , look there 's been an accident , I 've got to tell you |
| 20 | We 'd rather deal with each proposal on its particular merits . |
| 21 | Why are people more attractive to us than sunsets , even though at times we 'd rather escape the people for nature ? |
| 22 | ‘ We would rather pay for designer labels than go to high street shops . ’ |
| 23 | In fact , we would rather do it that way . |
| 24 | That leaves obvious questions about why exactly this illuminates decisions by finite human agents in worlds full of ‘ friction ’ , but we would rather leave them to Chapter 6 , where Game Theory will be found illuminating for thinking about international relations in an ideal-typical way . |
| 25 | We would rather talk about art or literature . |
| 26 | But if you can raise that profile which I talk about , the of the ethics of of your trade , your profession and become , in effect , a pressure group , a pressure group for the public good , while we may not always agree with you , and indeed we 're going to say that we do n't agree with you and you must n't be afraid of that but we would rather hear from you , you 're the men and women at the sharp end , I hesitate to say ‘ experts ’ because ‘ expert ’ is a , a rather over-used word but we 'd much rather hear from you , at the sharp end , than the part-time politicians who , by the very nature of , of their role , and however well-meaning they may be , they have other priorities . |
| 27 | We would rather have no help at all than continue to do that . ’ |
| 28 | We would rather have gone somewhere else if that was what we wanted ; it was n't quite right somehow and so we painted the windows up again . ) |
| 29 | A woman came in and said perhaps we would rather have soup . |
| 30 | ‘ You could take any keeper in Britain — there 's not one we would rather have between the post tonight more than him . |