Sentence examples for preferred what from inspiring English sources

He preferred what turned out to be 26 years in prison to breaking ranks.

They preferred what we wanted to do, which was a three-act drama celebrating his life, from archive footage".

Until he met his wife, Karen Green, in 2002, David preferred what he called, in a letter to a friend, "serial high-romance and low-intimacy" relationships.

In the 1990s I preferred what he made to Rameau music to Mark Morris's dances to the same composer, and what he made to Astor Piazzolla tangos to Paul Taylor's.

He began to feel emasculated when he played formula roles that depended on technique only, and he had to fight himself to retain his belief in the audience, which often preferred what he did when he sold out.

Even so, Judt preferred what he called the more mondain tone of Oxford to Cambridge "cleverness", and said later that he had been tempted to return to Oxford, but never to his own alma mater.

He'd prefer — what else? — a capital-gains tax cut.

Or, if you'd prefer — what words have you stockpiled?

She prefers what you could call the style or artifice of character.

Unsurprisingly, I detest this reading, and much prefer what poets have to say.

People would prefer what remains of Mr Sarkozy's mandate to be devoted to them.