Example sentences of "'d [adv] have [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well I 'd rather have clover than bloody moss .
2 ‘ That 's a joke , you understand — we 'd rather have money . ’
3 I 'd rather have South America I think Andy
4 I 'd rather have Captain Smollett sail us half-way home before I moved , but I know the rest of the men wo n't wait that long .
5 I 'd rather have breakfast here .
6 He offered to buy them a tin of beer each , but they said they 'd rather have Coca-Cola .
7 . I 'd rather have salmon me .
8 ‘ No thank you , I 'd rather have coffee — at least , I do n't want anything — I 'm not a bit hungry … ’
9 And I 'd rather have coffee than tea … ’
10 No I 'd rather have coffee .
11 Of course there 's just nobody , in a war , I 'd rather have fighting alongside me than the British …
12 It was on the tip of her tongue to say she 'd rather have dinner with a snake , but then she stopped .
13 She said nothing , then he added , ‘ Perhaps you 'd rather have Dawn .
14 ‘ I 'd rather have tea , please , ’ she said politely .
15 I mean I 'd rather have tea , sorry , yeah .
16 I 'd sooner have Compo anyway .
17 I 'd sooner have dinner .
18 You could go through again and you could put sodium instead of that M G but where you had things like M G O H twice you 'd just have N A O H so you 'd have a have to do a little bit of changing about .
19 You could do okay you could do that and then you would have used up all the oxygen and you 'd just have nitrogen left , but burning something in a liquid in liquid air is gon na be a bit awkward , it could n't be done .
20 ‘ If the worst came to the worst — no , do n't get worked up again , she is quite elderly , after all — you 'd still have Martin .
21 At the moment he 'd still have time to drive down on to the autobahn — providing the freezing fog came no closer .
22 And er , I thought I 'd probably have wall paper on that wall , you know , use , use the curtains just as plenty of fullness , but have them for keeping out the light or keeping in the heat ,
23 He 'd long ago decided that if you spent all your time listening to what people actually said , you 'd never have time to work out what they meant .
24 ‘ What are you worth ? ’ she 'd ask ; I 'd certainly have trouble with that one .
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