Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] rather have [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually I 'd rather have no house . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd rather have a turkey ! ’ |
| 3 | I 'd rather have a couple hours |
| 4 | A fucking cake , I 'd rather have a bottle of Gin I 'd prefer to that . |
| 5 | That looks a pretty good job , sweeping the floor , though I 'd rather have a go on the sweeping machine . |
| 6 | I 'd tell my husband I 'd rather have a change of holiday and not go with our friends . |
| 7 | I 'd rather have a meal would n't you ? |
| 8 | I 'd rather have a rat in the house than a dog |
| 9 | but I mean I 'd rather have a Calibre than that definitely |
| 10 | If the worst came to the worst and we did get another president , I would do it , but I 'd rather have a break for a little while . |
| 11 | I 'd rather have a racist straight up and on the rocks any day . |
| 12 | I do n't like my lessons , I 'd rather have the money , if that 's what she 's saying |
| 13 | I 'd rather have the money . |
| 14 | ‘ I sometimes use an ambient mic on guitars , but I find that it can make things sound a bit too boxy and I 'd rather have the choice on the mix if I want to add a bit of ambience . |
| 15 | I 'd rather have the hit off dikes any day , but smack was easier to get hold of , so I got into that instead . |
| 16 | I 'd rather have the doctor saying that I ca n't go home rather than me signing myself out . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yeah , well I 've got floral , I 'd rather have the plain |
| 19 | I 'd rather have the power |
| 20 | I had planned to buy a flat with Geraldine but realized that if — no , when — John came back I would rather have a home all set up for him . |
| 21 | Although of course I would rather have a Pissarro . |
| 22 | Well what I would what I would do erm I would rather have a commitment for a date to start when you go out of here and if you say if you 've got if you 've got something that comes up then fine . |
| 23 | I would rather have an RSPCA worker who retained the capacity to weep than one hardened to the darker necessities of the job . |
| 24 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 25 | You 'd rather have a day out at York racecourse than at Headingley if truth were known , would n't you ? |
| 26 | If you 'd rather have the lamb I 'll have chicken . |
| 27 | we 'd rather have a cigarette in our hands . |
| 28 | I feel that in some senses it becomes almost about a certain strain of purity — that we would rather have a demonstration of 50 people on maybe a fuller , total political programme , than we would a demonstration of 50,000 people on maybe more limited aims but nevertheless political aims that we do feel carry us forward , but which could draw into activity a broader range of people . |
| 29 | We would rather have no help at all than continue to do that . ’ |
| 30 | Is I think we probably do need as Mr suggested to move number one suggested resolutions , erm now if the Liberal Democrats won places in and if they 'd rather have the work noted proceed to proceed by something sinister . |