Sentence examples for have preferred only from inspiring English sources

Asked if he would have preferred only a day or two off between series, like his opponent, Leyland smiled and said that after sweeping the Yankees, he would have been happy to wait three weeks for the World Series.

I asked whether he thought Shakespeare would have been a man of the cinema, and he said he thought he would have preferred theatre, if only because playwrights tend to be better regarded than screenwriters.

A spokesman for Mr. Hodges said he would have preferred a bill honoring only Dr. King but had to accept the Confederate holiday as the price for passage.

Among those was Sir Michael Stoute, Workforce's trainer, who would probably have preferred to be the only person in the grandstand.

The Justice Department lamented that the court had decided to address questions of fact — whether the department systematically violated New Yorkers' rights — and the question of remedies at the same time, saying it would have preferred to weigh in only after the former had been decided.

Though they might have preferred that Gowalla was only using their platform, and not Foursquare's.

Mr Asquith ended by asking Mr Chaplin to reply although, he said, he would have preferred to have repeated the only instruction a film director once gave to Charlie, "Get out there and monkey around for about twenty feet".

Why does the Mayor need to make City Hall a "family business?" I would have preferred a paid intern chosen only for his/her skill and not for his/her last name.

Wright was asked if he would have preferred the day off, having missed only one game all season.

One relative would have preferred one-to-one verbal presentation only and another would have preferred not to have received information on death: "I don't think that the information about one in however many within a year dies…….

In contrast, one parent who was the only attendee would have preferred a group: "It would have been nice if there had of been other parents there because it is quite nice…to meet other parents and chat about your children…just to make you think 'I'm not the only one'" (attending parent).