Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] to " 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 | Instead of taking to her heels , as any sensible pariah dog would have done , she advanced wagging her tail to sniff at him . |
| 3 | But instead of crashing to the ground , I was caught , by my trousers , on a pin in her clothes . |
| 4 | But the old people preferred to remain there instead of moving to properties which might be a bit far away for them . |
| 5 | he told them he 'd stopped in the fast lane instead of moving to the hard shoulder because he did n't want to ruin his tyre by driving on after a puncture . |
| 6 | Instead of switching to the next phases to be excited are , which enables the motor to develop maximum negative torque at that position . |
| 7 | Luke 's face tightened , but instead of reacting to the taunt , he pursued his earlier accusation . |
| 8 | Well , he likes , instead of sticking to Paul and the Ephesians all the time , to , you know , slip in a wee snippet of Shakespeare or Tennyson or mibbe even Wordsworth now and again , as a Text . |
| 9 | Virtually anything is possible here and , for a relaxing change of pace , it is worthwhile hunting out a slow boat instead of sticking to a frenetic dash in the fast lane . |
| 10 | But instead of sticking to this problem , which is interesting in itself , Yockey makes wild extrapolations in a futile attempt to show how the classical concept of information can be applied to problems in generating information . |
| 11 | With such equipment , staff could work from home instead of commuting to offices . |
| 12 | And he , for his part , was feeling so euphoric that instead of shouting to his son to get up and stir his stumps , he had actually gone in there and put the envelope on Adam 's bedside table . |
| 13 | ‘ Madam , I wish you would listen instead of jumping to ridiculous conclusions ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If you would only listen instead of jumping to conclusions . |
| 15 | For this I consciously blamed my parents : it seemed to me that instead of writing to me , as other parents wrote to their daughters , they had written me off . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Next day Elspeth went to mount the horse again , but this time she was chatting to a friend instead of listening to the horse . |
| 18 | Within two or three years , all post-graduate trainees will be spending 80 per cent of their time in schools learning on the job instead of listening to lectures on education theory . |
| 19 | He thought he might as well look over his skiing equipment , instead of listening to his parents snapping at each other . |
| 20 | An immediate freeze on prices and wages was imposed , the latter to be adjusted twice yearly instead of according to monthly indexation mechanisms . |
| 21 | Instead of walking to school as we always used to do in the olden days , even if it was a three mile journey , nearly every child of today gets taken there in a car . |
| 22 | The weather was appalling but instead of retreating to England , Amelia and her companion decided to go to Egypt . |
| 23 | The group was already quite close so that instead of retreating to one of his more inaccessible rock crevices Tom stayed where he was , relying on the deep shadows to keep him hidden . |
| 24 | TAKING a brisk walk instead of retreating to a darkened room may be the best way of coping with migraine and other bad headaches , according to a leading pain doctor . |
| 25 | Instead of fleeing to a safe place and hiding away there with complete body concealment , the animal takes up a semi-hidden position from which it can remain watchful . |
| 26 | Instead of returning to Australia , he took a post at a university on the south coast of England , where he has been ever since , now occupying a personal Chair . |
| 27 | But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after , the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics . |
| 28 | But then , instead of returning to the siege of Pons , he led his army in May 1179 to the enterprise which was to establish him once and for all as an acknowledged expert in the vital art of siege warfare : the capture of Taillebourg . |
| 29 | Prisoners were to be made to perform productive work within the prison in a consistent and regular manner in order that they should acquire rational work habits which they would continue after release instead of returning to crime . |
| 30 | Macmillan 's " War Diaries " do not indicate when the decision that he should visit Klagenfurt was taken , but they do show that on the morning of 13 May , instead of returning to Caserta , he flew on to Klagenfurt . |