Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [adv] have [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 ,
2 Well I 'd rather have clover than bloody moss .
3 I 'd rather have South America I think Andy
4 I 'd rather have breakfast here .
5 ‘ No thank you , I 'd rather have coffee — at least , I do n't want anything — I 'm not a bit hungry … ’
6 And I 'd rather have coffee than tea … ’
7 No I 'd rather have coffee .
8 Of course there 's just nobody , in a war , I 'd rather have fighting alongside me than the British …
9 I 'd rather have tea , please , ’ she said politely .
10 I mean I 'd rather have tea , sorry , yeah .
11 I 'd sooner have dinner .
12 I 'd sooner have Compo anyway .
13 ‘ What are you worth ? ’ she 'd ask ; I 'd certainly have trouble with that one .
14 It was on the tip of her tongue to say she 'd rather have dinner with a snake , but then she stopped .
15 She said nothing , then he added , ‘ Perhaps you 'd rather have Dawn .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Fabia felt then that if he went on in this ‘ lift her up , knock her down ’ fashion for very much longer , the way her heart was behaving , she would probably have heart failure .
19 Given that she is now at this moment incapable of giving or refusing a consent to the treatment which it is necessary in her interests , perhaps to save her life and certainly to advance her cure , I do not find myself satisfied that the refusal is a continuing one , evincing a settled intention on her part to persist in it and accepting , as I do , the father 's evidence that she would rather have blood than die , I declare that it shall be lawful for the hospital , in the circumstances prevailing , to administer blood to her , that being in her best interests .
20 ‘ That 's a joke , you understand — we 'd rather have money . ’
21 ‘ We thought that if we did n't like the Arab sector of Jerusalem after partition , ’ Damiani said , ‘ we would also have property in the Jewish sector .
22 A woman came in and said perhaps we would rather have soup .
23 If we did n't have them we would probably have dictatorship which would be even worse !
24 what have to pay that they would probably have dividend and they would pay that for you and you would have to pay them back .
25 There is no doubt that many of its customers have used loans in cases where they would previously have use ( more costly ) HP a 1977 survey showed that 59 per cent of the loans it made were for motor vehicle purchase .
26 They would certainly have time to get to the river Almond and cut off any interference from the garrisons there at Perth and at Scone , even if they ca n't overwhelm them .
27 And two thirds said they would only have sex in a long-term relationship .
28 At the moment he 'd still have time to drive down on to the autobahn — providing the freezing fog came no closer .
29 It means that the drug squad there can concentrate on harder drugs , and certainly I I pu , a recent interview with a a police inspector from Amsterdam said he would rather deal with , you know , he would rather have cannabis users than certainly alcohol , problems with alcohol .
30 But he also smoked and drank and boasted that he would sometimes have sex before a race because he enjoyed the physical release .
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