Example sentences of "[pron] would [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is why I made up my mind to come and tell you first thing that I could n't think of anyone I 'd rather Naylor married . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd rather autoexec |
| 3 | I 'd rather bed with the Devil than you , so go about your business and leave me alone . " |
| 4 | I 'd rather Lesley had had an abortion and tried for a kid when we were married . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd rather shovel shit , ’ said Tabitha . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd rather grub around in the earth any day ! ’ |
| 7 | Chairman I 'd just David Allenby Harrogate Borough Council . |
| 8 | I 'd just time to read it when the girl returned . |
| 9 | You know I would , I 'd just sort of |
| 10 | This caused such a burst of indignation from the players that I drew stumps swearing to myself that I 'd never umpire again — and I have n't ! |
| 11 | I reckon I 'd hardly surface from my bunker for the first few days . ’ |
| 12 | I am very fond of my ex-editor , but on the whole I would sooner Bill got his pleasure from watching Fred Couples play golf than from reading open-razor letters to the Guardian . |
| 13 | I would rather musicians took the latter course — and so , I bet , would you . |
| 14 | ‘ I would rather Germany played the proper Scottish team but I want to keep a sense of proportion . |
| 15 | I went mad , he said well accidents happen , I said not with my fucking dad they do n't not to my dad I said I 'll tell you what Mr if I 'd have known then what I know now I would n't even let you operate , I would n't Joy I would have said leave him alone , I wished he 'd have died when the |
| 16 | I would n't sir . |
| 17 | After my own experiences I wo I would n't advice someone not to go to their G P , but firstly , I would advice them to contact the Eating Disorders Association er , because they are very helpful and they 're more supportive than any G P I 've ever come across . |
| 18 | Erm because I would n't sort of finished till quarter pa |
| 19 | I would n't , I would n't C C Q , I just go back to , erm and to start chat basically and see what contact . |
| 20 | You 're so ugly I would n't f— you with HIS dick ! |
| 21 | I would not stage it at all ! |
| 22 | I would not hand this in to my superior lest I would become a victim of the purges myself . |
| 23 | ‘ And if I had to put money on it at the moment then I would back Arsenal to win the title . ’ |
| 24 | All the other main opposition parties except the conservative Popular Christian Party ( PPC ) boycotted the elections , arguing that the CCD would be an insubstantial body which would merely rubber-stamp presidential decisions . |
| 25 | But the fact is no lender can ever be absolutely sure that a guarantor is not being subject to pressure from the principal debtor , and to require him to do more than properly and fairly point out to the guarantor the desirability of obtaining independent advice , and to require the documents to be executed in the presence of a solicitor , is to put upon commercial lenders a burden which would severely handicap the carrying out of what is , after all , an extremely common transaction of everyday occurrence for banks and other commercial lenders . |
| 26 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 27 | She hoped that she would not disgrace herself by fainting , or by being unable to help him through fear or disgust of what she might be seeing . |
| 28 | She would not disgrace it more than she had already . |
| 29 | His vestigial liberalism or compassion persuaded him to resist the introduction of the poll tax for nurses and other deserving persons — but the Whips knew him as a man who would always toe the lobby line with a specious ministerial assurance , such as Nicolas Ridley 's promised poll tax rebate of £130 millions . |
| 30 | The first of these periods ( from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century ) usually involved confrontations between stone-throwing strikers and armed troops , who would sometimes resort to gunfire to restore order . |