Sentence examples for sooner taking from inspiring English sources

The shot clock arrived in 1986, a year after Villanova's masterly night, and the maximum time has moved down from 45 seconds to 35 seconds, forcing teams to shoot the ball sooner, taking away the edge from patience.

I'd sooner take a guarantee from Del Boy than William Hague.

I'd sooner take a short flight to nowhere.

I knew I would sooner take my children to Metallica than the insipid Raffi.

I'd sooner take the 6/1 about any Henderson horse winning than back Long Run outright at 14s.

Any individual serious about his chemicals – a heavy hitter – would sooner take 30 No-Doz [caffeine tablets].

They would no sooner take the family out for Happy Meals than they would let their kids follow the meal with a postprandial cigarette.

He doesn't even bother to advertise his whites, noting that "people would sooner take a taste of rat poison than they would a 10-year-old chardonnay".

The young couple with luscious flesh who crowd into the bathroom to make out no sooner take off their clothes than they get fanged; a man who is rude and haughty is quickly disposed of.

He no sooner takes off than he shines up there: he seems to have come into his element, radiant from fingertip to toe; the way his legs combine elegance and stretch is phenomenal.

Well, I'd sooner take the positive side of what they express negatively – like sculptors, they are cracking Dexys identity out of blank rock and the past is so much broken stone they don't need.