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 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If you if you would please Trevor . |
| 21 | decorative mirror , with or without a frame , is the type you would normally hand on a bedroom or living room wall , or perhaps over a mantlepiece to reflect the room . |
| 22 | Erm for instance , you go to one meeting and erm you would just sort of , mind you I think probably you may not agree , young people perhaps think this is the best way . |
| 23 | Or you might have become part of a large co-operative farm , where you would virtually farm as you were told in every facet by those in charge . |
| 24 | I pointed out that by slackening our programme efforts we would simply court mediocrity . |
| 25 | Of course , if everyone knew their partners inside out , there 's a good chance no-one would ever plight their troth . |
| 26 | Well they want , they want divorce and they 'd rather custody of the children and if they 'll some but she can allow them to take the children away cos the well the media coverage , they 've obviously got they have a law . |
| 27 | The puppets clung together as if they would never part . |
| 28 | Erm , there 's not a word that 's suitable to use actually in this case because we find that they would actually impact upon the service in a serious manner and therefore we do n't , |
| 29 | From these thrashing heights they would then shin ninety feet down to the decks again on single frayed and rusting wires . |
| 30 | Anyway , it 'd probably bum through the harness . ’ |