Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have prefer [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I would have preferred to know you were going to do it . ’ |
| 2 | We would have preferred to choose them all as the German Rose of Tralee , ’ |
| 3 | He would have preferred holding her back but that could n't be done without her getting frightened that something bad had happened . |
| 4 | ‘ Be quiet , child , ’ said Philip , laying a hand restrainingly on Harry 's arm , though he would have preferred to lay it about his ears if he could have had him to himself for a moment . |
| 5 | Angels — or ‘ angelicals ’ as he would have preferred to call them in his strange idiolect — were as real to him as omnibuses or mortgage repayments — and far more likely to obtrude into his consciousness . |