Sentence examples for prefer us to from inspiring English sources

The use of the words "merciless" and "pitiless" in President Hollande's response is also the sort of language they prefer us to use, adopting some of their own extremism as a result of an intolerable provocation.

"I'd prefer us to be playing a lot better than we're playing," Brady said.

Or do you prefer us to cut them to pieces for you?

Yet a large, probably the larger, part of Western opinion would prefer us to withdraw.

I prefer us to lose the ball like that but give continuity to our play".

I'd much prefer us to create our own shows and IPs".

Robert agrees: "People who can put plugs in their ears preferred us to an enormous degree.

What would Baddiel have preferred us to do – stand there and take it?

Many in the press and Parliament would have preferred us to wash our hands of the East African Asians.

Tyler would pretend he had forgotten — because he preferred us to think that he was absent-minded rather than broke.

I would have preferred us to stay in and continue to work for change in Europe, which was beginning to happen at a faster pace".