Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lady , I 'd rather sleep with a nestful of vipers , though frankly I 'm not sure I 'd be able to tell the difference . ’ |
| 2 | He told club members who rushed to help him : ‘ I 'd rather go for a pint with my mates . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I decided I 'd rather go to a small club and work my way up . |
| 4 | He 's not a proper father : he 'd rather talk to a foreigner than come and find his own son . |
| 5 | Given a straight choice , I 'd rather sit by a slug . |
| 6 | They 'd rather settle for a return of their money , if it came to that . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd rather depend on a surfer in an emergency than anyone else . |
| 8 | Denmark 's a prison and he 'd rather live in a nutshell ; some shadow-play about the nature of ambition , which never got down to cases , and finally one direct question which might have led somewhere , and led in fact to his illuminating claim to tell a hawk from a handsaw . |
| 9 | I 'd rather live near a fish factory than that . |
| 10 | And she 'd rather jump on a pony and go ! |
| 11 | Well , I 'd rather work in a shop , among people . ’ |
| 12 | Cos I do n't wan na work in places like that , I 'd rather work in a quiet . |
| 13 | I 'd rather work in a place like that , where we can face problems and move them on and develop things carefully , than to work in some places in the country where things are so far off agenda , as it were , as to be impossible . |
| 14 | He 'd only go for a couple of hours to his London office . |
| 15 | I 'd sooner sleep with a snake ! ’ |
| 16 | I 'd sooner sleep in a used grave ! ’ howled the parson . |
| 17 | Plays , too , ai n't my line much ; I 'd sooner go to a dance — it 's more livelier . |
| 18 | I think I 'll stop on a stool , I 'd sooner stop on a stool . |
| 19 | Others I 'd just throw on a cotton frock and a pair of sandals to go out shopping . ’ |
| 20 | It was quite pointless having a runner who saw the whole thing as a social outing and had once even sat down in a kitchen and said she 'd just rest for a minute . |
| 21 | it it 'd just look like a circle . |
| 22 | I 'd just come to a point . ’ |
| 23 | In the US , Pinnacle , which peddles almost anything and everything you 'd ever want for a Sparc system will have board and system-level HyperSparc and SuperSparc products when it gets deliveries from the chip-makers . |
| 24 | For the remainder of her half-hour set , the audience was treated to vintage Aurora Blake — in fact , it was doubtful that she 'd ever put on a more powerful show in any of the venues she 'd performed in all over the world . |
| 25 | But er I think erm the pound goes a lot further there , you 'll probably fe but I 'd probably feel like a millionaire in Jamaica |
| 26 | I know what you 're going to say , if you did look up you 'd probably step in a pile of dog turds or walk into a lamp-post , but I 'm serious . |
| 27 | Bloody hell , I 'd even settle for a monthly but Punch should n't be allowed to just expire . |
| 28 | He 'd even sit at a machine in the factory sewing patchwork cushions with all the remnants . |
| 29 | Kenny had a ‘ horses-for-courses ’ policy and he 'd sometimes switch to a five-man defence and leave out me or Peter Beardsley . |
| 30 | He vowed there and then he 'd never return to a tournament like that ; he felt that a man of his stature should n't be playing in what was , after all , a second-rate event while the Masters was on . |