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The phrase "would have sooner" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to express a preference or desire for something to happen earlier in the past. Example: "I would have sooner finished my homework last night, but I got caught up in a movie."
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Palin is an easy target, and poor anyone whose writing (ghost or otherwise) is held up to Nabokov's, even work he would have sooner seen incinerated.
Andy Pettitte has been with the organization since 1991 and remembers several players who would have sooner cleaned their own cleats all season than played for the Yankees.
This was a man who, previously, would have sooner poked out his own eyes rather than admit to vulnerabilities.
The logic of Clinton's claim is easily disputed as recounted in a Politico profile of Stein, "National exit polling that shows the majority of [Stein] voters would have stayed home rather than vote for Clinton, while others would have sooner voted for Trump".
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Personally, I'd have sooner chosen Ray Clemence for his outstanding contribution to Scottish football... ........ PPS.
West Ham manager Sam Allardyce: "I'd have sooner had four bookings today and won 2-1, rathan thavehave one booking and lose 2-1, believe you me.
Vladimir Nabokov would certainly have sooner spent time with a lepidopterist than with a novelist heavy with prizes.
"If we had focused on it sooner, we would have apologized sooner".
I also wish I would have realized sooner, rather than later, that although I want to give her everything, sometimes "nothing" also helps.
"I would have called sooner — " "I understand".
"I wish I would have known" sooner, he added.
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