Example sentences of "rather than [verb] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , he had kept her waiting at the Old Mitre and she would have preferred him to say everything then , or telephone now , rather than trail after her . |
| 2 | Mind you , this is not quite as unsatisfactory as the ‘ Piano Quartet ’ set where it would have been just possible to confine Op. 26 and Op. 60 to the second disc , rather than breaking after the magical slow movement of the earlier of these two works . |
| 3 | ‘ She wanted to be doing things like playing on her home computer rather than looking after the rest of the family . |
| 4 | awareness of rest after effort , rather than sleep after inactivity |
| 5 | And these trends tended to accelerate rather than slacken after 1905 . |
| 6 | It should precede curriculum development rather than following after it ; in other words , it should be formative rather than summative . |