Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A committee of clerics and nobles meeting at Scone in 1295 persuaded the so-called King John that enough was enough , and that instead of pandering to the King of England he should seek an alliance with the King of France . |
| 2 | It felt like he was bored , like he was playing with his camera instead of getting into the thing . |
| 3 | And erm so er er if people do that And er this this businessman , this week , he he rang and he he was sending messages via the secretary , instead of getting on the phone to me and and me finding out what there was , he finally he s he said There 'll be about an hour 's work . |
| 4 | After two days , in which it had become clear that Daod was organizing a drug shipment from Lebanon via Cyprus to Bulgaria , a well-worn route through the Eastern bloc into Western Europe , he decided to go home and sleep with his wife instead of staying on the job , as instructed , in case of overnight calls . |
| 5 | punctuation that is allowed to fall outside the margins instead of staying within the measure of the text . |
| 6 | But instead of crashing to the ground , I was caught , by my trousers , on a pin in her clothes . |
| 7 | Instead of dealing with the problem of a shrinking environment , for many years , scientists have wanted to protect the panda by taking them away and intervening with modern and more effective methods . |
| 8 | Apparently turf was a great talking point in this country , where people greeted one another with ‘ Have you got your turf in ? ’ instead of commenting on the weather . |
| 9 | In the end I bullied Andy , I said , Andy there is something fishy about this fire he said well it 's possible he said that it was erm a display model and every time anybody came in and needed a replacement part instead of sending for the part they took it out of the display model ! |
| 10 | With the cold winter evenings ahead why not try out some of these differing styles as alternative self-portraits instead of trying on the Euromask ? |
| 11 | To be defeated , honourably , by the multiplicity of the unpredictable , instead of living with the power of her knowingness ? |
| 12 | But instead of ploughing through the text , their introduction to the play comes from Tilt — a new Gloucester-based company . |
| 13 | Presumably that 's to encourage people to turn up instead of piling down the pub to watch it on sky tv . |
| 14 | Luke 's face tightened , but instead of reacting to the taunt , he pursued his earlier accusation . |
| 15 | Instead of reacting against the bias in their chosen paper , readers tended ( at the margin ) to defend their paper ( if it was biased against their party ) or even to glory in its bias ( if it was biased in favour of their party ) . |
| 16 | Instead of insisting on the possibility that there be no adequate translation , we should recognize what indeterminacy really means ; the different indistinguishably good translations are all as good as translations can hope to be . |
| 17 | Well he , he , they were on their way to Norwich but they stopped off at Ipswich for a lunch , you see , and er I had , I looked after them , so , so that it should n't interrupt the other girls behind the counter or , or the waiter who was looking after his regular customers in the dining room , you see , er and so I used to erm and once I had I remember there was six black doctors came in and er and I was glad because it was nice to move about and instead of sticking in the office typing and then going out all alone , you see , while the Manager was on the district , you see , I liked it and er anyway that was a long time ago . |
| 18 | Each pattern proclaims that it has the solution instead of collaborating in the search . |
| 19 | In these conditions I wanted to get rid of about a third of the original sail area and so that 's it , now I 'm sailing much more happily instead of struggling against the boat I 'm sailing in harmony again . |
| 20 | This is the ice-cream tent and this is the Ladies and changing rooms for some of the performers and instead of looking at the back of the bar during the interval , the audience can look out over the rolling Oxfordshire countryside . |
| 21 | Instead of looking at the brochure why not come down right now and have a look at the surgery and building ? ’ |
| 22 | Buxton believed that it had lost the confidence and interest of the country because of its practice of negotiating secretly with ministers instead of acting in the open . |
| 23 | The Goldsmiths were not insensible of the problem ; but instead of dispensing with the formality they offered the candidate as compensation thirty shillings — for a journey to London , the equivalent of 15% of the annual salary ! |
| 24 | Its shares slumped from around $170 before the October 1987 crash and instead of recovering with the Index have just touched a seven-year low at $96 . |
| 25 | If Shildon had waited on the stairs instead of leaving by the street door , he could creep back and force the flat door while she was asleep . |
| 26 | She had just spent a weekend at home in Belfast dutifully admiring the latest Hennessy grandchild and enduring countless little digs about good Catholic girls and settling down to raise a family instead of racketing about the world enjoying herself — as if it was such a sin to enjoy life , for God 's sake , she thought angrily , and anyway six years as Sister in the accident and emergency department of the Audley Memorial in Suffolk hardly constituted racketing ! |
| 27 | Instead of ringing for the maid she rose and poured more tea . |
| 28 | I mean , at the moment , instead of writing about the crap that is England I 'm writing about the crap that is America . |
| 29 | Instead of aiming to the left , where his forwards were lined up , Parry attempted to deceive the Llanelli defence by taking a quick drop-out . |
| 30 | Unfortunately for Thacker the wind was offshore and instead of drifting over the island he went the opposite direction out to sea . |