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

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1 All I 've had today was a pastie , I thought I 'd fast a bit .
2 You 'd either a cart or a horse and cart , or a tractor and trailer , and you 'd nice peat , and all these heaps of muck and you knew that when there was n't anything else to do you 'd got to get out there and spread it .
3 Would rather a cat be out cos it wants to be out .
4 ‘ Yet I would rather a resolution less wasteful .
5 KPMG Germany would rather an advertisement was not used .
6 DURING my time in Germany ( 1984-88 ) the British Ambassadors in Bonn and East Berlin would twice a year set off on an official tour , once in his territory and once in mine , to gather impressions about the relationship between the two parts of the divided German nation and how it might develop .
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