Sentence examples for rather somebody from inspiring English sources

I would rather somebody support me than a big chain".

I would rather somebody else got off the train first".

I'd rather somebody watch me smoking a rather cool e-cigarette product than a dirty, boring traditional cigarette".

If Al Gore loses the post-election, it will be, in part, because he was never himself during the real election, but rather somebody else every week.

"I don't think they were ever truly directed at Attorney General Cuomo, but rather somebody working in the attorney general's office," he said, but he dismissed the reports as hearsay.

I would rather somebody go make a mistake — and have myself or another senior person go back to the client over what's probably a relatively small error — than have to go through an enormous amount of teaching to make that person "client ready".

"When people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody who's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right".

(P3, female, 40s) I also feel that they [the GMC] could look at the format of their letters and perhaps make them sound less judgemental and less punishing and a bit more supportive and treat you like a person with an illness rather than somebody who has done something horribly wrong.

"They'd rather date somebody with a history of cheating than date somebody who is openly polyamorous".

Meriweather said, "You tell me who you'd rather have — somebody who plays aggressive on the field, or somebody who beat up their girlfriend?" Marshall has a history of multiple arrests after confrontations with a girlfriend when he was playing for the Denver Broncos.

"I was persuading an author why he should publish with me rather than somebody else — what I could do for him that somebody else can't do," Straus recalls.