Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No this make things a lot easier , instead of taking it all up to the full council . |
| 2 | ‘ You wonder why I am warning you , instead of rounding you all up ? |
| 3 | But instead of leaving them shut up and prey to vandals and arson , they can be sold off separately and , of course , realize much-needed capital for the health authority . |
| 4 | So , instead of leaving it idle , I sold the machine and donated the money to a charity for the disabled , as I had a mentally disabled sister who died when I was 13 . |
| 5 | The other men were standing well to one side expecting violence and the soldier finished his cigarette and put his hands into his pockets instead of holding them high . |
| 6 | It will be a complete change to report these facts instead of keeping them secret . |
| 7 | If , instead of following them that way you follow them a bit further north and follow them north of the Himalayas , then get smaller and greyer and paler , and the two ends of the loop meet in China and behave as distinct species . |
| 8 | I wished I could have screens put round my bed like the really sick people had , so that instead of giving me sidelong glances of pity because I had no visitors , people would drop their voices and whisper sepulchrally to interested outsiders , " Poor little thing — she 's dying , you know . " |
| 9 | Why not view that skinhead ideology from a new perspective , for I think it brings us closer to understanding what motivates their hate instead of pumping us full of the old clichés about how inhuman they are … |
| 10 | And instead of finding it miserable and increasing the fear , we found that taking vigorous action to make the best of what we had made us feel proud . |
| 11 | And the next time it happens I remember this , but instead of making me determined to do better , I freeze again . |
| 12 | Instead of making me happy , |
| 13 | The phrase " factory system " was already entering the language when , in 1807 , Davies Gilbert MP , a distinguished scientist , declared : However specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor , it would in effect be prejudicial to their morals and happiness : it would teach them to despise their lot in life , instead of making them good servants to agriculture and other laborious employments to which their rank in society had destined them ; instead of teaching them subordination , it would render them factious and refractory , as was evident in the manufacturing counties . |
| 14 | Some lyricists manage to keep themselves apart from the song , suggesting things instead of making them obvious , and that approach is maybe better because the listeners have to use their imagination … |
| 15 | And when we see these attempts as themselves social processes , we can continue the inquiry , instead of cutting it short . |