Example sentences of "instead [prep] [v-ing] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refusing to rise to the bait , she visualised and counted ten elephants , a hangover habit from her childhood , then , her voice tightly controlled , asked , ‘ Would you please explain why you insisted on bringing me here instead of taking me to the Trevi ? ’ |
| 2 | And instead of taking them to the operating room for a T U R , instead we took them to the urodynamics lab . |
| 3 | They even put him in the coffin and shipped him home instead of leaving it to a local undertaker . |
| 4 | This needs appropriate institutions , similar to Marshall Aid after the war , instead of leaving it to the World Bank and the IMF and various ad hoc advisers . |
| 5 | In went the putt and he asked me to keep the ball because he wanted to take it home and get it mounted instead of throwing it to the crowd . |
| 6 | This shows an irony that although Saint Francis gave all he had to the needy , the church is spending its money on building magnificent and expensive structures instead of giving it to the poor . |