Example sentences of "would [adv] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather be seen as a big brother than a juicy sex symbol . |
| 2 | For myself , I 'd rather be ruled by an adulterer , by some sexual rogue , than by a prim celibate or zipped-up spouse . |
| 3 | of it er but I 'd rather be viewed on my own merits on my own worth er be willing to take a few risks in life erm and know that I 've got the rewards at the end of it for making a success . |
| 4 | ‘ Has n't it ever occurred to you that I find you repulsive — that I 'd rather be kissed by a lizard than you ? ’ |
| 5 | From the gal who swore she 'd rather be dragged across a plain by wild horses than wear lipgloss , this comes as something of a surprise . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd rather be played by Cher any day . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd rather be remembered as a capitalist who left his children something . ’ |
| 8 | Well we 'd rather be talking to the West Midlands , Chair rather than fighting about where it 's going throughout the whole of England , which is a slight difference , in geographical terms . |
| 9 | I think you 'd rather be playing with everything would n't you ? |
| 10 | ‘ Naah , I say rush it ! ’ laughs Bryan ; ‘ I 'd rather be sitting on a beach any day … ’ |
| 11 | Now , I 'd rather be sitting in a car than standing on a crowded platform , but there was n't much in the way of light relief on the radio . |
| 12 | I 'd rather be sitting in there and listening to music . |
| 13 | If he did n't get away now , he 'd only be waylaid by the others , there 'd be more whiskies , and it would be all hours before he 'd get to his lodgings and the letter from Elizabeth . |
| 14 | So it 'd only be say from there to the roof round . |
| 15 | They 'd just be living off the land . |
| 16 | We 'd just be talking about maths and that 's it . |
| 17 | He 'd soon be shouting at the window to call the boss up to go and get him some drink — usually home-brewed beer . |
| 18 | She was uncertain whether , at work , she should be denying the rumour that she was engaged to the head of the Massingham empire , but thought that if Naylor had any strong views on the subject she 'd soon be hearing about them anyway . |
| 19 | She was told she 'd soon be attended to , and instructed to take a chair . |
| 20 | But if you were playing with a drummer who liked to give it some wallop , you 'd soon be lost in terms of volume , and that would piss you off a bit . |
| 21 | That 's when I decided to gamble on the chance that you 'd soon be returning to the hotel to freshen up before the start of the evening . |
| 22 | People came in the summer to walk and to sail and , if development plans succeeded and the roads could be kept clear , they 'd soon be coming in the winter to ski . |
| 23 | Even if my aunt had been mentally lost to Uncle Félix years ago , as the mater said , he 'd hardly be thinking about marriage to another woman at such a time . |
| 24 | ‘ But if he had wanted to disappear with the diamonds , ’ she persisted , ‘ we 'd still be looking for him now . ’ |
| 25 | We 'd still be living in caves like the half-apes we sprang from if the frightened little people had their way . |
| 26 | There would n't be any ethical problems to worry about , because as that young man in the audience said , we 'd still be living in caves or the trees . |
| 27 | If you had n't stopped to give me a lift this morning , I 'd still be shuffling along the road to Tangiers . ’ |
| 28 | Service If it all stopped there you 'd still be left with a very capable and complete utility , but the people at Rupp seem to have taken another class of user into consideration — the user who wants to ‘ dock ’ a portable into a desktop setup and use its drives and printers in a sort of client/server networking fashion . |
| 29 | And you would only you you Yes you 'd meet more of the affordable requirement no doubt , than you would at the lower figures , but in my view , you 'd still be left with some fairly substantial problems in particular areas . |
| 30 | He asked the old man if he 'd ever worked in the sandpaper factory and added that he 'd probably be going to work there himself when he 'd finished at the Comprehensive . |