Example sentences of "[adv] instead [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 2 | ‘ Can I come in instead of discussing it in the corridor ? ’ |
| 3 | They even put him in the coffin and shipped him home instead of leaving it to a local undertaker . |
| 4 | It does not mean — what it all too often has become — an aid to impulse buying , ‘ immediate ’ gardening , and the idea that ‘ if we lift them and pot them up instead of leaving them in the ground , we can sell them in a couple of weeks time as ‘ container grown ’ ’ . |
| 5 | Refusing to rise to the bait , she visualised and counted ten elephants , a hangover habit from her childhood , then , her voice tightly controlled , asked , ‘ Would you please explain why you insisted on bringing me here instead of taking me to the Trevi ? ’ |