Example sentences of "i [modal v] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should rather like to have an opportunity of putting to the Prime Minister some of the arguments in favour of handling business through Cabinet Committees . |
| 2 | ‘ I should rather keep company with Mrs Frere . |
| 3 | The only complaint — and she was not really complaining against her uncle , perhaps I should rather say the cause for depression — was that from time to time she was very homesick and longed to see her mother and girls of her own age . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I should rather say it was something he inadvertently let fall that led me to believe there might be a legal case to answer . ’ |
| 5 | I am now standing outside a gate , outside a window , looking into a life that does not belong to me , and I should rather look away . |
| 6 | I 'd rather you just … |
| 7 | I 'd rather eat cold fat . |
| 8 | I 'd rather sleep in the gutter than let that happen . |
| 9 | As Leonard commented in Police Gazette , ‘ I 'd rather sleep with ashes than with priestly wisdom , ’ which has even more point when we understand that the ashes referred to are those of the victims of the Holocaust . |
| 10 | Then I thought stuff that , I 'd rather go to Ibiza with my literary agent , Alison , and take some Ecstasy . |
| 11 | I 'd rather know I came fourth and ninth . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sue Lawley ‘ Sometimes I 'd rather be ironing … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Sometimes I 'd rather be ironing ’ |
| 15 | I think I 'd rather live in the park than go to the smelly old place . |
| 16 | I 'd rather go home , but I du n no how to get there , and I do n't want to get lost . |
| 17 | That looks a pretty good job , sweeping the floor , though I 'd rather have a go on the sweeping machine . |
| 18 | I do n't really mind , cos it looks so nice in the sun , but I 'd rather it was n't so blummin cold . |
| 19 | Julie Owens , 30 , personnel assistant ( right ) : ‘ I 'd rather the skirt was a bit longer and I prefer a court shoe . |
| 20 | I 'd rather not be here . ’ |
| 21 | Well , frankly , I 'd rather have a little mud than a hatchet thrown at my back . |
| 22 | And I 'd rather they did something about the service instead of advertising that they 're getting there when they 're patently not . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd Rather Be Famous , by Pete Johnson ( Methuen , £4.95 ) might seem like candy-floss in comparison but this book is sardonic in its view of romance and the dreams of telly fame that follow an appearance in a Blind Date type of show . |
| 24 | Sad really , but I 'd rather the impotent ramblings appeared in the Spectator and left the Guardian to those of us who enjoy reading it . |
| 25 | I 'd rather see what makes me different as something almost congenital . |
| 26 | I 'd rather be seen as a big brother than a juicy sex symbol . |
| 27 | I do n't want to spend too long — there 's a lot else to do in London and I 'd rather have the autopsy before I ask too many questions . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , I 'd rather talk about it now , ’ Jennifer Morgan said drearily . |
| 29 | I 'd rather be a street sweeper . ’ |
| 30 | If you 've got a daughter half your age I 'd rather screw her instead . |