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

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1 ‘ I 'd rather have a turkey ! ’
2 You 'd rather have a day out at York racecourse than at Headingley if truth were known , would n't you ?
3 I 'd tell my husband I 'd rather have a change of holiday and not go with our friends .
4 That looks a pretty good job , sweeping the floor , though I 'd rather have a go on the sweeping machine .
5 A fucking cake , I 'd rather have a bottle of Gin I 'd prefer to that .
6 I 'd rather have a couple hours
7 but I mean I 'd rather have a Calibre than that definitely
8 I 'd rather have a racist straight up and on the rocks any day .
9 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 .
10 we 'd rather have a cigarette in our hands .
11 I 'd rather have a meal would n't you ?
12 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 .
13 I 'd rather have a rat in the house than a dog
14 ( I sha n't — he said he 'd rather have a drawing of mine , in any case . )
15 Ooh well they used to well they did n't used to sing a lot of songs but er they used to do a lot of you know playing about and perhaps and then they 'd perhaps have a ball .
16 That most people you know , they wo n't try something like that , I mean , I know I 'm a bit like that myself I 'd sooner have a steak .
17 I 'd not have a child at my age .
18 And that Ernie being a real good slaughterman , I mean , after Tuesday morning he 'd always have a bullock
19 Mr Chairman the , certainly with they 'd still have a problem with a Friday night .
20 And you went to school in the morning but never knew whether your house was going to be there when you got home for dinner or whether you 'd still have a mum and dad and
21 ‘ I actually won quite easily when I expected that I 'd still have a lot to learn , ’ he explains .
22 Since she hardly ever drank , she 'd probably have a hangover to contend with on top of everything else come morning , but frankly it would be a relief to have something else to think about other than Adam .
23 They 'd probably have a row about it .
24 It 's probably erm , yeah I think you 'd probably have a shot at your yellow .
25 It 's probably erm , yeah I think you 'd probably have a shot at your yellow .
26 as if he 'd even have a chance of it anyway
27 I 'd maybe have a chat chat with them you know , personal like .
28 So here we 'd actually have a match of all three saying that we 've recognized it to a level three .
29 I mean actually decentralizing the power , by having groups of Ward Councillors , on an area basis , actually having the power decentralized to them and having open meetings in various parts of the City where you 've got the nine or twelve Councillors from three or four wards who 'd actually have a lot of power delegated to them , and so we would try and put power downwards .
30 I had planned to buy a flat with Geraldine but realized that if — no , when — John came back I would rather have a home all set up for him .
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