Sentence examples for prefer to do something from inspiring English sources

Maybe Abercrombie's mother would prefer to do something else.

Perhaps, but many Japanese, including Hiroyuki Masuda, would prefer to do something else: take a bath.

Now I would prefer to do something more philosophical but physics was a good degree to get.

"I would prefer to do something smaller, maybe at the Bush, which is one of my favourite theatres".

Mr. Sibek, a lawyer who until recently worked for a nonprofit group and said he would prefer to "do something green for a living," was browsing the Internet last spring when he came across Green Drinks International.

I still prefer to do something with a character, because it feels more like you're playing.

Shortness of time for reading was a problem for 29% of respondents, 40% preferred to do something else and 26% said they "didn't enjoy reading very much".

"I had always preferred to do something 'useful,' " Mr. Aimard writes, "by recording music not found in catalogs, especially the works of our own time".

"Everybody prefers to do something else, to expand the footprint, to make acquisitions, to be in the press because you are a great manager, and so on and so forth.

For all the talk of elegance and effortlessness, above all he was and is a competitor; he rebelled against his comfortable existence as a retiree, preferring to do something real.

Sometimes our names were on exclusive guest lists (though we were poor, we were beautiful, and people liked to have us around), but often we preferred to do something else — attend a friend's opening, drink in after-hours clubs or the room above a pub, trek off to remote suburbs to see a band play in a warehouse.