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

No	Sentence
1	Well I 'd rather have clover than bloody moss .
2	‘ That 's a joke , you understand — we 'd rather have money . ’
3	I 'd rather have South America I think Andy
4	I 'd rather have breakfast here .
5	‘ No thank you , I 'd rather have coffee — at least , I do n't want anything — I 'm not a bit hungry … ’
6	And I 'd rather have coffee than tea … ’
7	No I 'd rather have coffee .
8	Of course there 's just nobody , in a war , I 'd rather have fighting alongside me than the British …
9	It was on the tip of her tongue to say she 'd rather have dinner with a snake , but then she stopped .
10	She said nothing , then he added , ‘ Perhaps you 'd rather have Dawn .
11	‘ I 'd rather have tea , please , ’ she said politely .
12	I mean I 'd rather have tea , sorry , yeah .
13	I 'd sooner have Compo anyway .
14	I 'd sooner have dinner .
15	You could do okay you could do that and then you would have used up all the oxygen and you 'd just have nitrogen left , but burning something in a liquid in liquid air is gon na be a bit awkward , it could n't be done .
16	At the moment he 'd still have time to drive down on to the autobahn — providing the freezing fog came no closer .
17	And er , I thought I 'd probably have wall paper on that wall , you know , use , use the curtains just as plenty of fullness , but have them for keeping out the light or keeping in the heat ,
18	He 'd long ago decided that if you spent all your time listening to what people actually said , you 'd never have time to work out what they meant .
19	‘ What are you worth ? ’ she 'd ask ; I 'd certainly have trouble with that one .
20	It means that the drug squad there can concentrate on harder drugs , and certainly I I pu , a recent interview with a a police inspector from Amsterdam said he would rather deal with , you know , he would rather have cannabis users than certainly alcohol , problems with alcohol .
21	A woman came in and said perhaps we would rather have soup .
22	Given that she is now at this moment incapable of giving or refusing a consent to the treatment which it is necessary in her interests , perhaps to save her life and certainly to advance her cure , I do not find myself satisfied that the refusal is a continuing one , evincing a settled intention on her part to persist in it and accepting , as I do , the father 's evidence that she would rather have blood than die , I declare that it shall be lawful for the hospital , in the circumstances prevailing , to administer blood to her , that being in her best interests .
23	the same power may be exercised , despite the absence of a Civil Procedure Convention , with the consent of the Secretary of State ( who would presumably have regard to the known attitude of the foreign government and the terms of any relevant Convention as to consular relations ) .
24	You would have put £10,000 towards a good cause — but it would only have cost you £6,000 , because you would have saved the rest in tax .
25	And two thirds said they would only have sex in a long-term relationship .
26	From the list given in the book , he chooses only herbs which grow in wet places that the fish would naturally have access to .
27	Medium sized firms would thus have difficulty keeping institutional investors ' business .
28	‘ The last thing a Secretary of State would normally have time to do is to see if the Historic Royal Palaces are being run in a way to maximise profit . ’
29	Their history , the interests of their members and the circumstances of conflict in Northern Ireland do not permit the evolution of Orangeism into something which would still have meaning if it abandoned its evangelical Protestant symbols and stated beliefs .
30	Fabia felt then that if he went on in this ‘ lift her up , knock her down ’ fashion for very much longer , the way her heart was behaving , she would probably have heart failure .