Example sentences of "[noun sg] instead [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I left it on the side instead of leaving it in the grill . |
| 2 | So for example when I 've given a pint of blood instead of giving it into a plastic bag with sodium citrate to stop it clotting I 've actually given into a plain glass bottle and when I asked what this for the erm transfusion nurse said that they 're going to let the red cells all clot together at the bottom and use the serum that was left for blood grouping purposes which of course is very important . |
| 3 | Why did I , why did I do , put them in the machine instead of dropping them on the floor then ? |
| 4 | Painting food colour directly on to icing and marzipan instead of kneading it in has a number of advantages . |
| 5 | She added that the effect had been enhanced by Miss Minoprio 's " curious mannerism of waving the club to and fro above the ball instead of addressing it in the conventional manner " . |
| 6 | the wide midfielders heading the ball instead of crossing it towards goal . |
| 7 | Of course he complained when he entered political writing instead of preparing himself for his poem . |
| 8 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 9 | The redesigned straps and shoulder pads spread the load over a much greater area instead of concentrating it under the armpits and on top of the shoulders . |
| 10 | Why is he trying to stop this Bill instead of amending it in Committee ? |
| 11 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 12 | He 'd washed his hair and piled all his plastic carrier bags into a corner instead of strewing them through the house like the clues of a treasure-hunt . |
| 13 | He had no sense of humour , and he would keep harping on his seminary training instead of thrusting it into the background and making a fresh start . |
| 14 | If the singular universal increasingly punctuates the forward movement of Sartre 's text instead of providing it with a dialectical meaning and direction , the problem that it was invoked to solve meanwhile takes its own aberrant course . |
| 15 | The universities are also concerned that in three years they may be obliged to give any available permanent position to a WIPer instead of advertising it for open competition , thereby reducing their ability to attract the best talent . |
| 16 | Jerking the trigger instead of squeezing it with a steady pressure , meant the gun muzzle being pulled slightly down and left for the first shot . |