Example sentences of "[adv] of going [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But equally you can create suspense out of going to the very edge . |
| 2 | His first triumph in Europe ramins the No 1 aim once he can keep his game together for all four rounds , instead of going off the rails at a crucial stage . |
| 3 | Spurs play their possesion futba which looks good but is not at all dangerous — when they had chances for breaks they just kept passing the ball instead of going for the fast break . |
| 4 | It also gives a ready answer to anyone asking why you do n't get a job instead of going down the pub . |
| 5 | Whatever the way of it , Tina was a month ahead of Jean and had Stu with little trouble in her own bedroom instead of going into the hospital at Gore as she 'd done with Sandy . |
| 6 | It 's a bit like that with me , except that instead of going into the technological future I had to go back in time . |
| 7 | But instead of going into the street where mullahs , students and soldiers were desperately digging people out . |
| 8 | Instead of going into the green room , we went to the girls ' dressing room . |
| 9 | Yeah we 'll restrict it instead of going into the full year |
| 10 | Instead of going through the state appellate process , the ACLU filed a test case appealing against a Philadelphia court 's decision to uphold a Pennsylvania anti-abortion law . |
| 11 | The World Cup triple jump bronze medallist has decided to run in the 100 metres at the Cleveland County Stadium on Saturday instead of going through the motions in what would have been a practice trial in his specialist event . |
| 12 | Cos she saw me putting the corn in and she decided she 'd try and get it by diving through the black net instead of going through the gate , like with a normal hen , you know , this one 's obviously brain dead or |
| 13 | Instead of going through the Dartford tunnel . |
| 14 | Instead of going to the bar , he went out for a walk down the road . |
| 15 | I 'll run in the Bath Half-marathon instead of going to the Vets Cross-Country Championships in Wales . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I can lend them money instead of going to the pawnshop . |
| 17 | GOOD for Princess Anne , waiting for her children to arrive in Barcelona instead of going to the Opening Ceremony without them . |
| 18 | The situation is rather as though instead of going to the zoo I had invited a small group of creatures to come to me . |
| 19 | And I further think you 're working all on your ownsome on this and that 's why you 've come to good old Uncle Mo instead of going to the boys at Langley . |
| 20 | Instead of going to the Club as he usually did for lunch , Owen went to Zeinab 's apartment . |
| 21 | The Communist Party Central Committee complained in February 1932 : The Minority Movement is a small self-absorbed organization of leaders who have nothing to do with the real struggle of the workers and who instead of going to the workers , working among them and fighting against the reformist leaders in the Trade Unions , simply approach the workers with the invitation to take part in a highly elaborate organisational structure . |
| 22 | A few of these mobilised larvae , instead of going to the uterus , complete the normal migration in the bitch , and the resulting adult worms produce a transient but marked increase in faecal Toxocara egg output in the weeks following parturition . |
| 23 | But instead of going at the end of the process of building the new Europe , the Wall has gone at the beginning . |
| 24 | If they lose their jobs , instead of going on the dole they have to leave the country . |
| 25 | You must remember that , when we were gon na go , we were gon na over the fences instead of going round the close . |
| 26 | This morning she had started out late for Pack Meeting , so instead of going by the woodland path , which was a long way round , she 'd taken the direct route by road and arrived in time . |
| 27 | So I picked him up and I carried him , Dorothy had gone out the wrong door , instead of going out the door at that end she 'd gone right along this long corridor |