Sentence examples for preferred to be back from inspiring English sources

Mike would have preferred to be back in his apartment by then, playing guitar.

I'm just a Brooklyn kid who'd prefer to be back home in Malibu – without all this make-up and schmutter – rearranging my tchochkes".

Some say this is from shyness, and believe he would prefer to be back in the university toiling over some dusty point of law.

Barker, in the same scenario, is prone to big and obvious exhales and body language that makes it clear he would much prefer to be back at sea. "They are obviously quite different personalities," said Iain Murray, the America's Cup regatta director.

I asked her how often she sees people return to Greece because they'd prefer to be back home.

"Although I do not pretend to know precisely how Spike feels living in a small tank away from his natural habitat," Moore wrote in a letter to the restaurant, "I am certain that by whatever means a lobster can feel and understand its surroundings, this one would prefer to be back home in his native waters off the coast of Maine". .

We preferred to be away.

· The only times that the diary would prefer to be transported back to double geography are during meetings of the select committee for education and skills.

On the E train, Rossi knows where she should be — the front positions her best for Penn Station — but she prefers to be farther back, where it is less crowded.

Mr. Hein of the Italian Refugee Council said that some migrants who hope to reach Northern Europe and are caught entering Italy prefer to be sent back to Greece for another try, rather than apply for asylum in Italy, where they would then have to stay.

They will be asked whether they agree to take part now (Yes/No), or whether they would prefer to be phoned back later.