Example sentences of "instead [prep] [v-ing] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of leading to a write-up , the reference can lead to another matrix , expanding the single column in the first , and so on to any degree of detail required . |
| 2 | I was staying in the police house — they had several police station-houses for CID men staying , instead of going to a hotel . |
| 3 | We pulled into Coventry police station and instead of going to a cafe , as we had hoped , we got shut in one cell and left there for about two hours with the most revolting sandwiches you 've ever seen in your life . |
| 4 | Perhaps it made for a safer relationship if , instead of arguing to a standstill , the party who felt herself misunderstood took her grievance elsewhere and satiated it in transgression . |
| 5 | Instead of rushing to a telephone box less than 40 yards away or walking to her nearby home , Joanna trudged to the leisure centre . |