Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is that if we take these cards , instead of dropping in one at here there and everywhere and I doubt if anyone will take much notice of one , maybe I 'm a bit personally interested in , if I say could we all drop them in at Prestos in Rougier Street ? |
| 2 | I 'd never give him instead of bought for her for her christening she match up the jacket and sh the socks , the socks what somebody just bought for her . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's time Dana took responsibility for her own life , instead of turning to you at every imagined crisis , ’ Myra said . |
| 4 | Now this is set up differently cos this is set up very sensibly , so that you can fill in who wrote it , when , what date and what it 's about , and when you try and find it later it 's easier to find instead of scrapping through lots of files that do n't have a long document . |
| 5 | Erm well it depends erm the , the economics of power production are extremely erm er complex and , and t to a certain extent arbitrary erm and erm I mean there , there are various ways that the government can actually get out of this fix because obviously it 's caused a lot of concern to close the , the mines , and one is actually to , to subsidize the mines and put the price on to electricity bills er the other is to subsidize the mines er but pay for it out of the , out of , er out of taxes so it 's a basic , instead of paying for it on your electricity bill , you pay for it on your tax bill , yeah . |
| 6 | What not to do is to pan from the toddler back to the father , instead of cutting from one to the other . |