Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | If you if you would please Trevor . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I pointed out that by slackening our programme efforts we would simply court mediocrity . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The puppets clung together as if they would never part . |
| 23 | 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 , |
| 24 | From these thrashing heights they would then shin ninety feet down to the decks again on single frayed and rusting wires . |
| 25 | Anyway , it 'd probably bum through the harness . ’ |
| 26 | He 'd rather finger Bach than Liszt . |
| 27 | He would generally lunch in one of the clubs to which he belonged ( by the end of his life , he was a member of the Athenaeum , the Garrick , and the Oxford and Cambridge ) although there were occasions when he would take guests to his favourite restaurant , L'Etoile , in Charlotte Street . |
| 28 | ‘ At table he would just glower at his food and refuse to talk . |
| 29 | He would certainly hand Oliver over to the police ; he had said he would tell the police about Alice and this was much , much worse . |
| 30 | Collectivism would eventually lead to totalitarianism — fascism and communism are collectivist ideologies — but it would also surface in the bureaucratic thinking of Western governments and multinational corporations . |