Example sentences of "would [adv] have [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather have Captain Smollett sail us half-way home before I moved , but I know the rest of the men wo n't wait that long . |
| 2 | He offered to buy them a tin of beer each , but they said they 'd rather have Coca-Cola . |
| 3 | ‘ If the worst came to the worst — no , do n't get worked up again , she is quite elderly , after all — you 'd still have Martin . |
| 4 | ‘ I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should , in a cowardly manner , become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour . ’ |
| 5 | But I really would rather have Chatsworth . ’ |
| 6 | Still , she consoled herself , she would always have Margaret as a friend . |
| 7 | Henry thought that he would probably have Camilla tonight , or maybe Tavic , the black society sculptor everyone was talking about or , hey , maybe both . |
| 8 | Best who was at a Lions selection meeting in Edinburgh yesterday morning , reckoned the margin and manner of Scotland 's 20-0 victory would certainly have England worried and that he expected a cracker of a game on Saturday week at Twickenham , where Scotland have won only twice , in 1971 and 1983 , since the Second World War . |