Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] rather have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd rather have a turkey ! ’ |
| 2 | I 'd rather have a couple hours |
| 3 | A fucking cake , I 'd rather have a bottle of Gin I 'd prefer to that . |
| 4 | That looks a pretty good job , sweeping the floor , though I 'd rather have a go on the sweeping machine . |
| 5 | I 'd tell my husband I 'd rather have a change of holiday and not go with our friends . |
| 6 | I 'd rather have a meal would n't you ? |
| 7 | I 'd rather have a rat in the house than a dog |
| 8 | but I mean I 'd rather have a Calibre than that definitely |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'd rather have a racist straight up and on the rocks any day . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Although of course I would rather have a Pissarro . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I would rather have an RSPCA worker who retained the capacity to weep than one hardened to the darker necessities of the job . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You 'd rather have a day out at York racecourse than at Headingley if truth were known , would n't you ? |
| 17 | we 'd rather have a cigarette in our hands . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( I sha n't — he said he 'd rather have a drawing of mine , in any case . ) |
| 20 | He had even spoken — interminably — at the famous meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , held at Oxford in 1860 , when Huxley allegedly scored his victory over Bishop Wilberforce with the retort that he would rather have an ape for an ancestor than a man who used his privileged position to pronounce on matters he knew nothing about . |
| 21 | Huxley 's retort that he would rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop — or words to that effect — has come to symbolize not merely the conflict between Darwinism and the Bible but the victory of science over religion . |