Example sentences of "rather [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And do it now rather than them pounce on you later and accuse you of hidin' her . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | Optical character recognition ( OCR ) systems electronically read typewritten text into a word-processing system rather than it having to be keyed in manually . |
| 4 | No wonder Luke had suggested he come to her room earlier , rather than she go to his . |
| 5 | We also worked out in the end a system whereby Brian would react to my jump rather than I react to his throw . |
| 6 | it 's that kind of thing , rather than I suppose to the theatre way , you know , you , you react much more spontaneously , so I thought that was an interesting thing that thing |
| 7 | Would it prudent for me to consider both sets of minutes rather than us get into difficulty ? |
| 8 | This is not to say that the right and left are necessarily the same , but rather that they converge at key points and share an understanding of what is involved in the politics of ‘ race ’ . |
| 9 | That we look not for detailed application of single techniques in a piecemeal fashion , but rather that we look for the general developments from which we can build school specific approaches which translate the experience into usable school practice . |
| 10 | The problem is not so much whether you can or ca n't but rather whether you want to . |
| 11 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 12 | You have your own life before you ( rather as you said to me , Therese ) and you must make it for yourself . |
| 13 | The Lepismatidae have acquired an additional anterior articulation which , with other changes , enables the mandible to move by adduction and abduction in the transverse plane rather as it does in most mandibulate Pterygotes . |