Sentence examples for have rather been from inspiring English sources

"Would I have rather been the presidential candidate?

I would have rather been knocked down than hear that".

GORDON -- I would have rather been a groom.

Despite the outcome, Penn State Coach Joe Paterno would have rather been fishing.

"I would have rather been knocked down than hear that," he said.

Nobody looked as if he would have rather been watching "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire".

This has not been deliberate targeting, but has rather been due to tactical necessity.

Popular sovereignty, proclaimed in the French Revolution, had rather been distorted, however, in Napoleon's autocratic plebiscites.

TV has rather been subject to an innate conservatism in its commissioning patterns," he argued.

"Though I had rather been expecting you some three years ago, when the first book came out".

"Alas," answers Troost, "I had rather been counting on moving to Fiji...