Example sentences of "rather give " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had rather given the impression that splits were not the done thing . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd rather give people a really good night from 11 to 3.30 . |
| 3 | Some members would abandon the evangelical parts of the platform , while others would rather give up politics . |
| 4 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer was a little more friendly since he ‘ would rather give money for Education than throw it down the sink with Sir William Beveridge ’ . |
| 5 | I would n't be seen dead in a navy suit and I 'd rather give a peck on the cheek than a mock-male handshake . |
| 6 | Some people love the atmosphere of refuges ; others , myself included , would rather give them a miss . |
| 7 | I have to admit I 'm not as eager to give money or pictures , say , to a Carnegie Museum as to a Museum of Modern Art , and I 'd rather give to the Museum of Modern Art than the Guggenheim Museum . |
| 8 | I would rather give half my country away than know the secret of this powder . |
| 9 | The organiser , too , is a woman … though she 'd rather give pride of place at the air display to another female — Sally B , a B-17 bomber , star of the film Memphis Belle . |
| 10 | He said he would rather give the balloons to the children to take home . |
| 11 | Well I 'd rather give to if I had any children I 'd have give to them . |
| 12 | and he says no I , I reckon I had a word with our Margaret she said no it do n't matter , but if that 's gon na be the case I 'd rather give it to him back , I mean I 've got it |
| 13 | Then Mr Neal read from Romans 12 : ‘ Avenge not yourselves , but rather give place unto wrath … vengeance is mine : I will repay saith the Lord ’ . |
| 14 | Michon ( 1988 ) in particular suggests that driver training should avoid providing information at a declarative level but rather give rules which are easily proceduralized to minimize the need for the driver to ‘ think ’ . |
| 15 | It is not the intention here to go into great detail on the subject of nutrition , but rather to give a simple guide that may be useful to those who want to make sure that the elderly parent in their care is being properly nourished . |
| 16 | ‘ The best design strategy is not to program a computer directly with the wealth of descriptive detail that constitutes a natural language but rather to give it the basic set of expectations and abilities that are needed to learn a language . ’ |
| 17 | In this way sound very clearly echoes or perhaps rather gives the lead to sense . |
| 18 | It does not provide a comprehensive explanation of every facility offered but rather gives a brief introduction to the most commonly used methods involved in the financial side of exporting . |
| 19 | He seemed completely in his element , though all those monks flitting round the place rather gave me the creeps . |