Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often instead of reading about their local history from the printed page , they are required to piece together from an assortment of contemporary evidence ( old maps , photographs , log books , census returns , directories , evidence from local buildings , and so on ) a coherent picture of what their settlement was like in the past . |
| 2 | Instead of proceeding at his normal brisk trot , he lumbered up the step-ladder and heaved himself ponderously inside the machine 's cabin . |
| 3 | This time instead of relying on her own memories stemming from her childhood centred around the home in Priesthouse Lane where she was born and still lives , Miss Rimmer armed herself with a tape recorder and interviewed the town 's oldest residents ranging in age from 70 to 99 . |
| 4 | Benjamin skipped lightly up the stairs but , instead of going to our own chamber , took me into Ruthven 's . |
| 5 | She had a tall , slimly built figure , with long , honey-blonde hair which she had left loose instead of confined in its usual more businesslike French plait , and a face that was gamine rather than classically beautiful , shown in small , straight nose and thickly-lashed , expressive green eyes above a mouth that was generous but firm . |
| 6 | ‘ It was too easy to let the mind wander and I spent too much time looking at the leaderboards instead of concentrating on my own game . |
| 7 | ‘ In his profession he found a force stronger than the temperament he had inherited from his family ; instead of surrendering to his natural instincts he followed a clear , straight path , and did not slide into the wretched muddle in which all the other Rougons perished . ’ |