Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather them than me . |
| 2 | Elaine 's houseproud ways got on his nerves but he would rather them than this dirty cat 's way of living . |
| 3 | Rather them than us but it 's still a great film . |
| 4 | Rather dem dan me |
| 5 | Eventually I though it much wiser to give up being called Manager and since then I 've had to adapt myself . |
| 6 | The swerves in economic management have been as much his as Mr Lamont 's . |
| 7 | His range of roles has crossed many more adventurous and challenging boundaries , from the devil himself through to perhaps his now most famous portrayal of The Joker in Batman and when Nicholson insists that everything he does on screen is in some way autobiographical , delves into what makes him tick find contradictions and confusion at almost every turn . |
| 8 | Oh , yes , well I mean I o obviously I When she worked She used to get up I 'll tell you another thing that she used to do . |
| 9 | So I if I put that in , I must apologize for misleading the panel . |
| 10 | Yeah what I do is , I have specified so I If I suspe the numbers are quite close I put one in there have that , and I just do reverse around and you |
| 11 | So I if you read the book the book is called Woolly Jumper you can get it your at Cramwell , you can get it at Grantham . |
| 12 | And so I when I got back from the talk I had a look and sure enough there are , throughout the British Isles there are five New Brightons . |
| 13 | He was the possessor of learning which he shared unselfishly with his students , making them feel it was just as much theirs as his . |
| 14 | ‘ Better you than Father Condon , I suppose , ’ Frank said , staring at the blankets . |
| 15 | Yeah , better you than me ! |
| 16 | There is no better player to have alongside you than Dean Richards . |
| 17 | So you as you say put your nought there you 've got to start from where you finished off last time and carry round again . |
| 18 | It 's like just ticking them off , and surprisingly all this knowledge will build up inside you until eventually you know what you 're talking about and once you know what you 're talking about it breeds confidence , and once you 're confident , it transmits itself to the people you 're talking to , and they like it , because you know what you 're talking about , and that leads to sales . |
| 19 | ‘ Better him than me , ’ Paddy said . |
| 20 | For days Kartoffel stood below it as storms flashed across the vertiginous face of ice and rubble . |
| 21 | So he for one saw a need to separate the middle from the lower classes . |
| 22 | She is , admittedly , pregnant at the time , but the problem with this familiar literary symbol is that it has rather more inside it than the play does . |
| 23 | And as if that were not enough , the church bell is also , by ancient repute , therapeutic : place inside it if you can whatever part of your body is troubling you , get the bell ringer to go about his business and you will , with luck , be cured . |
| 24 | ‘ It was as much hers as it was Terry 's , I suppose , but the Bank he heisted it from might think it had a prior claim . |
| 25 | The house was as much hers as it was his . |
| 26 | Yeah but some are not , not so much 'im 'cos he do n't shed his feathers as much as 'im . |
| 27 | The failure was less hers than his own for not having taken better care . |
| 28 | I went wrong I 'm just me when I go in , erm it 's getting the structure in there . |
| 29 | This discussion has actually sort of change my perspective on it erm and so it 's it 's not that there 's an element of doubt in my mind I 'm just I if I 'm gon na go into something it 's got to be a hundred percent . |
| 30 | Rose was the world , the sky that curved above you when you first took a tottering step , that held from behind your upstretched hands . |