Example sentences of "[adv] of [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a correspondent of The Graphic , these 19th-century visitors must have been little different from today's-instead of gasping at the 70-kilometre vista spread before them , their first reaction on arrival at the top was to write commemorative postcards . |
| 2 | He had also paid a substantial price for the pleasure , not merely of looking at the corpse of the idea of a centre party , but of stamping upon it several times over . |
| 3 | Last year 's holiday was great , last year , and I might get a bit of enjoyment out of looking at the photographs , but I 'm still paying for one again this year ! |
| 4 | Now , however a new layout has been agreed by the course bookmakers association and the racecourse executive which could take much of the hassle out of betting at the track . |
| 5 | Then , instead of shaping at the extreme neck edge , or within a few stitches of a fully fashioned neck shaping , work the cable pattern , with two or so stitches between it and the neck edge and work the neck shaping within the cable pattern and the remaining stocking stitch of the shoulder edge . |
| 6 | Instead of looking at the brochure why not come down right now and have a look at the surgery and building ? ’ |
| 7 | This is the ice-cream tent and this is the Ladies and changing rooms for some of the performers and instead of looking at the back of the bar during the interval , the audience can look out over the rolling Oxfordshire countryside . |
| 8 | Thus , from a letter of 1867 : " most philologists lack that elevating total view of antiquity , because they stand too close to the picture and investigate a patch of paint , instead of gazing at the big , bold brushstrokes of the whole painting and — what 's more — enjoying them … " ; and " … our whole mode of working is quite horrible . |
| 9 | But instead of working at the Sun Valley factory in Hereford , they 're on a production line at Orleans in France . |
| 10 | But instead of going at the end of the process of building the new Europe , the Wall has gone at the beginning . |
| 11 | Because they frolicked at the temple of Bootsy Collins and Hot Chocolate instead of worshipping at the shrine of Marvin Gaye . |
| 12 | The bending of the light is sharper than the curvature of Venus , and the impression is therefore of standing at the bottom of a shallow bowl . |