Example sentences of "instead of returning [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after , the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Instead of returning to the dressing-room to change as she normally did , she made her way through the backstage area back into the club , determined that he should n't simply disappear without trace as he 'd done on the previous evenings . |
| 4 | Instead of returning through the back entrance of the house , though , she strolled round to the front . |
| 5 | From here , instead of returning by the same route , it is possible to descend the mountain 's opposite side by taking the other cog-wheel railway from the Rigi Kulm to Arth , the bottom station near the Arth-Goldau junction station on the Swiss Federal Railway main line from Luzern , Basel , Zurich and the Gotthard line . |
| 6 | To save time , I determined to cut straight across the desert to Afdam instead of returning by the longer route we had come by . |
| 7 | Instead of returning by the old fence , however , ( which looked much worse from the top ) , I continued down the main ridge until the final spur , but this was just as steep . |