1.   These students often prefer the company of younger children.

2.   He preferred the company of those who were intellectually inferior to himself.

3.   He is rough and very unromantic and would prefer male company.

4.   For the moment he preferred the company of his own sex.

5.   Which was a bad move as I hate jazz bores and usually much prefer the company of bored typists from Willesden.

6.   It was said Harper had been the boyfriend of Emma, but following a tiff at a pub that evening, he had preferred the company of Rebecca.

7.   Among the independents, Hoover prefers companies that are drilling in the same fields as the majors.

8.   Gebel-Williams said more than once that he preferred their company to that of most of the adults he had ever met.

9.   George prefers companies that are leaders in their industries or market niches.

10.   He chose different companions on the way home, preferring the company of other rookies and free agents.