Example sentences of "instead [prep] [v-ing] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It felt like he was bored , like he was playing with his camera instead of getting into the thing . |
| 4 | But instead of getting into bed , he gets into another suit , God save us , and says he 's going out again . |
| 5 | Ellen undressed for bed and fell on her knees and prayed , instead of getting into it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Instead of taking to her heels , as any sensible pariah dog would have done , she advanced wagging her tail to sniff at him . |
| 8 | Instead of staying with his team-mates at the hotel , he slipped away and stayed privately with friends in a bid to avoid the St George officials . |
| 9 | Instead of staying with me as he 'd planned , he rents this ancient pile , miles from anywhere , just so he can keep an eye on this stupid female who seems to have got herself into all sorts of trouble over a piece of land — ’ |
| 10 | Now she understood what that something precious Fernando had was that would guarantee Maria Luisa returned to him instead of staying with Steve . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Made him realise why men drove themselves instead of staying at home in the loving arms of their wives . |
| 13 | She was a plump young nome who wore trousers and was good at engineering and had actually volunteered to be a guard instead of staying at home learning how to cook ; things were really changing in the quarry . |
| 14 | It means that young people , instead of staying in their home town or village , have to stay with their friends or relatives or move to bigger places like Newcastle or Gateshead and that means more people on the waiting list . ’ |
| 15 | Instead of staying in bed all day ! |
| 16 | Ominously too , instead of staying within a mile or so of home like normal dogs , they turn into restless wanderers , propagating the virus far afield . |
| 17 | punctuation that is allowed to fall outside the margins instead of staying within the measure of the text . |
| 18 | Our behaviour plan can then be built around the ‘ bits ’ instead of depending on vague intentions . |
| 19 | Any figure at which the assessor of damages arrives can not be other than artificial and , if the aim is that justice meted out to all litigants should be even-handed instead of depending on idiosyncracies of the assessor , whether jury or judge , the figure must be " basically a conventional figure derived from experience and from awards in comparable cases " . |
| 20 | Instead of skipping through unnoticed he was now the focus of attention . |
| 21 | Instead of meandering up a path to the top , chatting amicably to a pal about how George Michael used to be good in Wham and passing round the butterscotch , they choose a cliff and try to reach the summit by slowly inching their way up vertical rock , pushing their fingers into tiny fissures and standing with one toe on a ledge the size of a pebble . |
| 22 | Instead of ripening into an edible delight , the emotion begins to rot and decay , and eventually its poison spreads throughout our body , often re-emerging as illness and disease . |
| 23 | Kahnweiler in Der Weg zum Kubismus is probably echoing conversations with Braque when he writes : ‘ Representation of the position of objects in space is done as follows : instead of beginning from a supposed foreground and going on from there to give an illusion of depth by means of perspective , the painter begins from a definite and clearly defined background . |
| 24 | Instead of passing on this information , the defendant persuaded the other employee to leave and join his own business ; the discontented client in the meantime had agreed with the defendant that he would use him as his legal adviser in the future . |
| 25 | The principal innovation associated with this test ( Berry and Mittler 1984 ) is that , instead of pointing in response to a word or sentence , the child is required to imitate a sentence spoken by the adult . |
| 26 | But instead of setting about matters in a straightforward way and asking Marko if he would sell him the ram , or let him have it as a gift-which Marko might well have done , for he was a good-natured young man-the king asked the advice of his prime minister Milosu , who was Marko 's uncle . |
| 27 | But instead of crashing to the ground , I was caught , by my trousers , on a pin in her clothes . |
| 28 | Instead of merging with each other , or one of the bigger concerns , in the early seventies three of the smaller firms signed affiliation agreements with the American Big Three as MITI opposition was overcome by political pressure for foreign capital liberalization . |
| 29 | On the other hand , it is possible that , instead of substituting for transport interactions , telecommunications will broaden people 's activities and actually stimulate further activities and trips ( Tyler 1979 ; Clark and Unwin 1981 ) . |
| 30 | If we wish to be a passive industry , instead of pushing for advancements , then little will change . |