Sentence examples for he really preferred from inspiring English sources
Perhaps he really preferred basketball and soccer.
(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).
A young recruit to The Economist, somewhat intimidated by her formidable reputation and spinsterish appearance, once ventured that, whatever the merits of abstract art, he really preferred the representational kind.
A new hospital building was being put up next door, and Bashir was supposed to move into a big office there, although he told me that he really preferred the small office he has worked in for years.
While at school at Eton he supposedly invented a toothbrush that played "Annie Laurie" and a revolver for killing wasps, and he was a great maker of gardens but he really preferred boys.
Howard used it to reshuffle his young proteges – to this day, people argue over whether it was George Osborne or David Cameron he really preferred – into shadow cabinet positions where they could better establish a claim to lead.
Mr. Bloomberg said that the plane afforded him safety, but that he really prefers the convenience it gives him.
The title character of Stephen Daldry's BILLY ELLIOT (2000) tries to fight it, but he really prefers ballet class to boxing.
He may be in a Justin Bieber T-shirt and jeans now, but the peristyle is the only place Ricardo can dress the way he really prefers: with lipstick, earrings, a cloth on his head the way women do in the countryside, and a dress.
"It's our routine: we come home and we all flop in here," said Mr. Kind sitting on the dark green living room sofa, though he really prefers one of the two brown tufted leather club chairs — "they have such a gentlemanly feel" — that he and Ms. Kind bought at ABC Carpet when they got married, along with the drop-leaf table in the kitchen and the Asian-style side table in the living room.
And he said, no, he really prefers the American way.... He's not paying his students," so he can't determine how long they stay.
