Example sentences of "[adv] of [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you 're very lucky cos so , you might have easily of had nobody in the family |
| 2 | Then er it it 's only gon na be a case then of knocking it into the same style for all |
| 3 | ‘ My solo record was a way of finding myself , a way almost of validating myself as a musician . |
| 4 | Why did I , why did I do , put them in the machine instead of dropping them on the floor then ? |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | And instead of taking them to the operating room for a T U R , instead we took them to the urodynamics lab . |
| 7 | Instead of taking it over a thirty five year period , what you would then have is that you go up very steeply let's say by putting lump sums or er regular capital premiums erm which you 'll receive a tax refund and then it stops but the benefits of the fund keep going so at age sixty they would have the same effect of reaching your pension there with no contributions |
| 8 | Instead of ordering her off the boat , he was now beginning a more subtle campaign . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | instead of sending it through the post at Christmas I thought I 'd bring it . |
| 11 | She added that the effect had been enhanced by Miss Minoprio 's " curious mannerism of waving the club to and fro above the ball instead of addressing it in the conventional manner " . |
| 12 | He 'd washed his hair and piled all his plastic carrier bags into a corner instead of strewing them through the house like the clues of a treasure-hunt . |
| 13 | It does not mean — what it all too often has become — an aid to impulse buying , ‘ immediate ’ gardening , and the idea that ‘ if we lift them and pot them up instead of leaving them in the ground , we can sell them in a couple of weeks time as ‘ container grown ’ ’ . |
| 14 | They even put him in the coffin and shipped him home instead of leaving it to a local undertaker . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And I left it on the side instead of leaving it in the grill . |
| 17 | It made me really sick that I had nt listened to the Liverpool Scum match 2 years ago on the radio — instead of watching it on the box . |
| 18 | They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses , instead of forming themselves into a counter attack . |
| 19 | ‘ Can I come in instead of discussing it in the corridor ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh or to move their mind with tickling laxity and affect them as a stage player used to do , instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God . ’ |
| 21 | In 1682 a printer gave a boost to cannibalism by substituting ‘ if the latter husband ate her ’ instead of hate her in the verses on the Mosaic law of divorce at Deuteronomy xxiv.3 . |
| 22 | If the singular universal increasingly punctuates the forward movement of Sartre 's text instead of providing it with a dialectical meaning and direction , the problem that it was invoked to solve meanwhile takes its own aberrant course . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent . |
| 25 | The reason suggested for this is that these girls feel that they should be able to cope with their pregnancy and problems on their own instead of sharing them within the unit , as most other girls do . |
| 26 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 27 | Clare 's newfound , short-term leisure meant that she now enjoyed cooking instead of seeing it as an added , rushed , three-times-a-day chore to fit in around earning her living . |
| 28 | Instead of walking him round the beat , he should have taken him straight to the police station . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Instead of putting them in the Credit Card Centre 's outgoing mail — they were all addressed to ‘ problem ’ areas — Steve called in the Fraud Section who made sure they were sent registered mail in plain envelopes . |