Example sentences of "prefer to have [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have some big deliveries to make , and after yesterday Huey prefers to have me kept an eye on . |
| 2 | Those preferring to have them collected , or to take or send them individually , were mostly older people , and people in lower socio-economic groups , and people who — when they were talking about being so short of money that they would have to arrange a loan — thought in terms of a relatively small amount of money . |
| 3 | Of fascination to some , most would prefer to have it taken away or at least effectively cordoned off so that its presence could largely be ignored . |
| 4 | They formed , in theory , a private army of his own , for though Louis XIV paid them they were organised into regiments under Irish officers , but William preferred to have them confronting him openly on the far side of the Channel rather than lurking , disaffected , in his rear on the other side of the Irish Sea . |
| 5 | Participating members should distribute the Investment Overview direct to foreign prospective purchasers in their countries unless they prefer to have it distributed by the initiating member . |