Example sentences of "[pron] rather [conj] [pers pn] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had hoped that the project would foster greater continuity between children 's experience of learning in primary school , and their experience in the comprehensive : I want to get away from [ a didactic approach ] , to the pupils taking more responsibility for work they produce and being more autonomous in the way that they do it and hoping to create more responsibility in them rather than them seeking the teacher all the time for information ; and thinking that all knowledge and information and values have to be teacher judged … |
| 2 | The Hilton should be able to fax this back to me rather than you trying to get it up to York . |
| 3 | Well I 'll say to her rather than you teaching me , I 'd rather you paid me ! |
| 4 | And sometimes that means sending a drawing out getting a contractor to price for it rather than him doing it , er using standard books and goodness knows else like Sponds . |
| 5 | A any photocopying that needs to be done in great bulk , erm get quotes , and let the company pay for it rather than you paying for it and then pay you back , because I might be able to for instance get an account thingy somewhere |
| 6 | We find that the bank is actually paying interest to us rather than us paying interest to the bank . |