Example sentences of "rather [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate felt inordinately pleased at his offer , even though she was astute enough to know that it came from a desire for any company , rather than hers specifically . |
| 2 | ‘ For your sake rather than hers . |
| 3 | Always try to make it your failure rather than theirs . |
| 4 | Yes , they 've got on quite well with the erm wall at the back , but there 's , Geoff 's got his car outside and the skip was in the police access road rather than ours |
| 5 | And do it now rather than them pounce on you later and accuse you of hidin' her . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | We go to the people … rather than them coming to look for us ! ’ |
| 8 | It 's more like a luxurious rest-home for geriatrics , except rather than them paying the club , the club is essentially paying them . |
| 9 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 10 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 11 | So the government have n't got to find that bit rather than them being |
| 12 | Joan Bohanna was worried that Pilger might use the paper to say what he , rather than they , wanted . |
| 13 | Even the outstanding president of the twentieth century , Franklin Roosevelt , armed with a massive popular mandate and large majorities in both houses of the legislature , had grave difficulties in moving bureaucrats in the directions he , rather than they , wanted to go : |
| 14 | Thus many modern historians of classical Greece follow Thucydides and other commentators in arguing that democracy worked quite well so long as the populace was content to follow the leadership of educated spokesmen of the upper class like Pericles : " It was he who led them , rather than they who led him … |
| 15 | As your readers read they may be delighted with what you are doing , but when they reach the end of the book they will be less pleased with the whole rather than they might have been . |
| 16 | So the reason was always that people really needed the money rather than they just wanted to work ? |
| 17 | You know , I think erm rather than they paying all that money for a caravan . |
| 18 | One shop assistant approached my very bored husband rather than me . |
| 19 | Well I 'll tomorrow morning phone them up find out exactly what time , and register you rather than me if it 's you know if I ca n't get to it . |
| 20 | Now I was ready to take on the guards and he was calming me , rather than me him . |
| 21 | Still , they were looking at her rather than me . |
| 22 | Rachel had caught my eye but it seemed her interest was in my master rather than me . |
| 23 | Because if I want to change a business rule , rather than me visiting every single client on the network and upgrading that code I will re revisit it once on the server . |
| 24 | ‘ Even my Antoinette was turning to her rather than me . |
| 25 | Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened . |
| 26 | I 'm not sure , but I think somebody else should have done it rather than me . |
| 27 | Right , so , rather than me just do some boring stuff there . |
| 28 | I was always afraid that once Maria Luisa returned you would choose her rather than me . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why did he come to you rather than me ? ’ she asked , through lips grown strangely dry . |
| 30 | so I thought while he 's up there rather than me walking up and walking back , cos that would be too much exercise |