Example sentences of "[coord] instead [prep] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And instead of rolling over and playing dead as the script demanded , the amateurs got up with a cheerful smile , went to their polling booth and ad-libbed . |
| 2 | Erm so really and truly i i you know with what we 'd got it was sort of carrying the business on in a very sort of low way and instead of going round collecting the work it was all done through the post . |
| 3 | And instead of going up the jetty they went down and they were going to go right back to Rousay again . |
| 4 | Their sense of tradition is also very strong and instead of dying out in 1951 when enthusiasm was beginning to wane a little , it was revitalised when Stanley Robshaw took it in hand and set it firmly on its feet again . |
| 5 | But instead of getting on with the revolution , which Lowe believed was Wilson 's historic duty , Harold had immediately ‘ sold out ’ to the capitalists by adopting right-wing policies approved by NATO and the International Monetary Fund . |
| 6 | She caught her usual bus , but instead of getting off at Frankfurter Allee and catching the S-Bahn to Biesdorf , she stayed on it , all the way to Ostkreuz where , like Herr Nordern once before her , she made her way to Ostkreuz Police Station . |
| 7 | His original partner had been killed in a shoot-out four years earlier but instead of taking on a new partner Mauer now worked with the rookies , showing them the ropes and generally helping them to settle into the daily routine at the Mozartstrasse precinct as quickly as possible after their graduation from the Police Academy in Vienna . |
| 8 | The oceanic crust of the East Pacific Plate does collide with the continental mass of South America but instead of piling up in a heap , it ducks down , and dives under the continent ; the site of the ‘ bend ’ being below the 7,500 metre deep Chile-Peru Trench , while the zone of actual sliding contact between oceanic and continental crust is defined by the 60 degree dipping earthquake belt , the Benioff zone . |
| 9 | Fold the second strip of paper in exactly the same way as the first , but instead of pencilling down the folds , cut down only the folds shown with a black line in the diagram below . |