Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not the kind of person that talks about my problems — I 'd rather sort them out myself . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd rather throw her off the Empire State Building ! |
| 5 | She 'd rather throw herself to the lions … |
| 6 | If you were the last woman left alive on this bloody earth , I think I 'd rather do it for myself . |
| 7 | He 'd rather do it at night ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd rather do it with sheep . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | He did offer to come to Oxford , but I said I 'd rather do it in London . |
| 11 | In the state of mind he 's in , he 'd rather put you in the workhouse than provide one penny towards bringing a child into the world whose father happens to be one of the Feltons . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I 'd rather have him like this . ’ |
| 15 | Still , I 'd rather have them with us than against us , ’ added Feradach . |
| 16 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 17 | But I 'd rather have it on the Saturday than the Sunday anyway . |
| 18 | I 'd rather have it on bread I said . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 'd rather have it like that . |
| 21 | I 'm not doing these cutting this into big chunks I 'd rather have lots of bits in it . |
| 22 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I have , but I 'd rather keep them for more important things . |
| 23 | Because if I can I 'd rather get it off her than get it out of our club because then I can get some Christmas presents out of their lot . |
| 24 | Yeah , but they were all like that , they 'd all stab you in the back . |
| 25 | I 'm not saying we all had it together but you say you can er say that about four of 'em would then as that as that they got rid of it the other the others 'd get it you know eventually and th we 'd all have it in the end . |
| 26 | I 'd only send him to Wincanton if a new jockey comes into the equation , and needs to get to know him . ’ |
| 27 | I made it a condition that I 'd only do it with an American choreographer , and my assistant is American , too . ’ |
| 28 | So it was a gun that was only , you 'd only find it in a building ? |
| 29 | if we 're talking about going to the you can go down to play the course there , you 'd only get one round played . |
| 30 | When I first went , I thought I 'd only get them for a couple of weeks at the most . |