O.K., sunglasses can have personalities, but I generally prefer something that speaks more quietly.
Many people would much prefer something that knows how to flatter the panna cotta.
Elegance-appreciators, on the other hand, prefer something that does less, but does it better.
They'd prefer something that's an elevator ride or a few flights of stairs removed from the mother ship.
Ranil Dissanayake speaks for many of you, apart from the end, most of you prefer something that sounds almost exactly like luck: "Never you fret!
He has, the courts recognised, "always actively sought work"; although he would prefer something that "involves working with other people," he is "happy to take any paid work".
Trump has dropped his insistence that the new structure be a wall, rather than a fence, as U.S. border agents prefer something that allows them to see through into Mexican territory.
If you've got a powered mic, the gigabeat could make a good recorder in a pinch, but I'd prefer something that records uncompressed audio, or at least higher bit rate MP3s.
Midge Costanza, a former assistant to President Jimmy Carter and now on the community advisory board of Search Alliance, a Los Angeles-based AIDS research group, denounced the program as a "Band-Aid solution". She said she would prefer something that addresses the needs of everyone without adequate health insurance, not just those with chronic medical problems.
Perhaps the ex-IMF bigwig would prefer something that more closely resembles his jail cell at Rikers Island.
