Sentence examples for have really preferred from inspiring English sources

Asked before yesterday's game if he would have really preferred Drew stop at first so that the Mets would not have walked McGwire so quickly, La Russa said: "Oh yeah, absolutely.

It is in every way a deeply felt, generous obituary, but the self-effacing, even "faultless" Jane character it imagines has more in common with Emma Woodhouse's altogether-too-perfect bugbear Jane Fairfax than it does with the author who complained in a letter to a friend that she would have really preferred a bigger advance than the £110 she received for Pride and Prejudice.

"The African American community... the older generations, have really tended to prefer highly representational works to commemorate African-American history and heroes," Gallagher said.

"I prefer to find people who have really blown it in life".

Parents prefer it when you buy the cat's 'gear'; it shows you have really involved yourself.

I have really bad wheels.

(Carlyle was goodhumored about it, perhaps because, like many writers, he really preferred having the project to brood on to the brief melodrama of publication).

Not only would asking about it have been a trespass, I really preferred not to know.

"I think people back then really preferred it that way — living on a block that no one had heard of".

Perhaps he really preferred basketball and soccer.

They really preferred Mike Hampton to Mussina.