Example sentences of "[conj] instead [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And instead of distancing herself from her subject with the language of ‘ scientific ’ detachment , her message is one of passionate commitment to the primates she has studied for almost the whole of her adult life . |
| 2 | And instead of taking them to the operating room for a T U R , instead we took them to the urodynamics lab . |
| 3 | He suddenly swung her into his arms , his tortured breathing the only sound in the darkened barn , and instead of carrying her down the stairs he turned and lowered her to the soft hay that was spread thickly on the floor behind them . |
| 4 | But instead of allowing himself to be weaned off the drug , he went ‘ cold turkey ’ . |
| 5 | The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin . |
| 6 | But instead of basing it in Northallerton , where he runs the Sundial Hotel and founded the now defunct York Trailers , it will be in Shildon , near Darlington . |
| 7 | But instead of protecting her from attack , this mask forced the gas at her , rushing it up into her face with a sinister hissing . |