Example sentences of "instead [prep] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of walking to school as we always used to do in the olden days , even if it was a three mile journey , nearly every child of today gets taken there in a car . |
| 2 | Prisoners were to be made to perform productive work within the prison in a consistent and regular manner in order that they should acquire rational work habits which they would continue after release instead of returning to crime . |
| 3 | And she told me about her relations , of one young cousin in particular , who had never thrived but sat by the fire instead of going to school with the other children , not growing an inch . |
| 4 | Some parents may be encouraging their children to help at home or even take up work instead of going to school . |
| 5 | I know : instead of going to sleep , let's go to Tunisia . ’ |
| 6 | Instead of going to court he paid six hundred and fifty pounds for the damage and apologized to the shop 's owner . |
| 7 | And you 're not working Saturday morning , instead of going to work late we can go a bit early and do a bit of shopping ourselves . |
| 8 | Course I hung around in the park instead of going to clarinet lessons . |