Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd rather have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'd rather have a turkey ! ’ |
2 | I 'd rather have a couple hours |
3 | A fucking cake , I 'd rather have a bottle of Gin I 'd prefer to that . |
4 | That looks a pretty good job , sweeping the floor , though I 'd rather have a go on the sweeping machine . |
5 | I 'd tell my husband I 'd rather have a change of holiday and not go with our friends . |
6 | I 'd rather have a meal would n't you ? |
7 | I 'd rather have a rat in the house than a dog |
8 | but I mean I 'd rather have a Calibre than that definitely |
9 | If the worst came to the worst and we did get another president , I would do it , but I 'd rather have a break for a little while . |
10 | I 'd rather have a racist straight up and on the rocks any day . |
11 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
12 | You 'd rather have a day out at York racecourse than at Headingley if truth were known , would n't you ? |
13 | we 'd rather have a cigarette in our hands . |
14 | ( I sha n't — he said he 'd rather have a drawing of mine , in any case . ) |