Sentence examples for I should rather from inspiring English sources

"I should rather have paid attention to what I was saying and understood that perhaps I was on the record," he said.

clothes — Kingsley Amis: "I admit that I should rather like to be able to say close but from fear of being misunderstood do not dare".

The court expressly declines to apply or overrule Mezei, but attempts to distinguish it, or, I should rather say, to obscure it in a legal fog.

As Mrs Froplinson says, "I wouldn't mind writing a letter of angry recrimination or heartless satire to some suitable recipient; in fact, I should rather enjoy it, but I've come to the end of my capacity for expressing servile amiability.

Morris let fly, his mind occasionally racing ahead of his pen: "As to your question as to socialism will make men honest; I should rather say that it will not prevent them from being honest as the present system does.

"I should rather have paid attention to what I was saying and understood that perhaps I was on the record," Mr. Chirac offered, as if the record rather than the remark were the issue.

In Section 4, we show that (i) one should rather talk about anchoring than pasting in the case of the second branch, and that (ii) the problem of finding its parametrization is equivalent to the problem of solving A sin ( x ) = sin ( B x ) with A < 0 and B ∈ Q.

I think we should rather look at employee rights to gross income as being understood in the same way as joint ownership of a timesharing condominium.

I think they should rather wait till they are 25 yrs old.

My coach suggested that I should scratch rather than do any further damage to my back.

Publisher Bloomsbury are on another print run now (due to its success, I should add, rather than a few irate comments on the River Cottage forums), but apparently this time without the errors.