Sentence examples for preferred us to from inspiring English sources

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.

The BBC preferred us to go through the motions in studio rather than screening Evan English's unusual video for I Wanna Be Loved.

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".

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.

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

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

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".