Example sentences of "would have prefer " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'd have preferred it pink , that 's more feminine like , but them dull colours , that 's just like the Princesses used to wear . ’
2 I 'd have preferred a book that told a few truths , or even a few lies .
3 ‘ I 'd have preferred to be a jockey .
4 I 'd have preferred Tom producing Van , myself .
5 On balance he 'd have preferred to have seen them take on a top world fast bowler to ease the new-ball burden on him — as indeed they intended before negotiations with Australia 's Craig McDermott broke down months before the start of the season — but sees at least one advantage in having a star batsman rather than bowler .
6 I think I 'd have preferred the seaside .
7 ‘ I 'd have preferred a bottle of Chardonnay to be quite honest , but that did the job . ’
8 He 'd have preferred Bernard to say nothing rather than patronize him .
9 Denis , who watched my part of the show every night , would often give me odd notes on inflections he 'd have preferred done another way or phrasing he thought I could improve on .
10 But you see I , I 'd have preferred it on back wall .
11 But if you were going and choosing a pa , a film , I 'd have said you 'd have preferred the Hulk Hogan one .
12 I would 've prefer to get the mummy .
13 Very briefly , I would 've preferred to have seen a contract based on the end performance with the grass being cut to a structured length .
14 I personally would have prefered two millimetres , the full width of tread and full circumference .
15 It 's welcome , although we would have prefered full time jobs , but it 's a step in the right direction .
16 They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned .
17 I had taken two classes in physical anthropology and felt less guilty because of this and they were satisfied ; although they would have preferred I had chosen to read law .
18 I knew Oscar would have preferred a quieter , less raucous venture , on a weekday perhaps , but I had to work on certain days and those days came up during his visit .
19 Edberg defeated Cash in a quality final which many , I suspect , would have preferred to see as the final itself .
20 The buoyant economy at the end of the eighties of course helped in part by increasing road congestion , forcing many to take the train who would have preferred to drive .
21 One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit .
22 Many would have preferred Mrs Thatcher .
23 But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time .
24 For one who was nervous with aristocrats , it was unusual that he made a special friend in the diocese of the hereditary lay leader of the Anglo-Catholics in England : the Earl of Halifax at Garrowby , whom he would have preferred to Churchill as a war leader .
25 ‘ Well , ’ Karl smiled , ‘ I would have preferred to go sooner but yes I can stay .
26 Angels — or ‘ angelicals ’ as he would have preferred to call them in his strange idiolect — were as real to him as omnibuses or mortgage repayments — and far more likely to obtrude into his consciousness .
27 However the Occupational Pensions Board called for a pensions tribunal and Tony Thurham , chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers , said : ‘ Many pensions lawyers would have preferred a tribunal since it would probably have had greater powers and more staff .
28 Many would have preferred America .
29 ‘ We are toasting missing colleagues who were with us in the buffet and who would have preferred us to do it this way , instead of being sombre , ’ said Mr Christopher Reeves , a consultant engineer who joined the train at Southampton Parkway station .
30 We would have preferred a six-month trial period and controls to prevent abuses . ’
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