Sentence examples for had preferred the from inspiring English sources

Mr. Markowitz, she said, had always had preferred the latter.

When she was younger, Cecilia had preferred the coziness of winter, but no longer did.

Another theory was the Phaedra story — that she had preferred the son to the father, hence the father's relentlessness.

The irony was that Van Gaal, with his love of rhythmic control, commented afterwards that he had preferred the first-half performance, regardless of the lack of excitement.

Both of these preceding pontiffs had preferred the East Frankish king Arnulf, and in 896 Formosus abandoned the Spoletans and crowned Arnulf Holy Roman emperor, igniting a stormy conflict between the feuding factions.

"Children can be very thickheaded," she told me once, describing the way Rudy had preferred the dirty city to the Long Island suburbia where she and her husband had tried to transplant him.

Ferdinand III would have preferred the former.

"He'd have preferred the Russians".

And McRaven might have preferred the same.

(He would have preferred the title role).

America would probably have preferred the former.