Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] [pron] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin . |
| 2 | They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses , instead of forming themselves into a counter attack . |
| 3 | He had no sense of humour , and he would keep harping on his seminary training instead of thrusting it into the background and making a fresh start . |
| 4 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 5 | Instead of lifting her into the saddle first , as he had always done before , he mounted Chalon , turned the horse in a tight circle to present its left flank to Isabel , and extended an imperative hand . |
| 6 | So for example when I 've given a pint of blood instead of giving it into a plastic bag with sodium citrate to stop it clotting I 've actually given into a plain glass bottle and when I asked what this for the erm transfusion nurse said that they 're going to let the red cells all clot together at the bottom and use the serum that was left for blood grouping purposes which of course is very important . |