Example sentences of "instead of [verb] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It felt like he was bored , like he was playing with his camera instead of getting into the thing . |
| 2 | Instead of burrowing into the foliage it makes its home in the stems of aquatic plants . |
| 3 | Whatever the way of it , Tina was a month ahead of Jean and had Stu with little trouble in her own bedroom instead of going into the hospital at Gore as she 'd done with Sandy . |
| 4 | It 's a bit like that with me , except that instead of going into the technological future I had to go back in time . |
| 5 | But instead of going into the street where mullahs , students and soldiers were desperately digging people out . |
| 6 | Instead of going into the green room , we went to the girls ' dressing room . |
| 7 | Yeah we 'll restrict it instead of going into the full year |
| 8 | Stung by the Altrincham criticisms , instead of plunging into the British middle classes , the royal household turned to dependable outsiders in the white Commonwealth . |
| 9 | Instead of plunging into the pool you simply put your head in a salad bowl . |
| 10 | Other measures would involve more combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations , which , instead of discharging into the atmosphere the 60–70 per cent of the primary energy input which ends up as waste heat , would use it to provide hot water and heating in homes and commercial and industrial buildings ; and , of course , a switch from coal — which produces more carbon dioxide per ton than any other fuel — to nuclear , gas , oil and ‘ renewables ’ such as windfalls and tidal barrages . |
| 11 | I think it 's straight from Hollywood really ; but instead of falling into the arms of Barbara Stanwyck , it would be Tyrone Power . |
| 12 | However , at the end of the film , the car driven by Mark ( Sean Connery ) drives right down to the end of the road , and instead of falling into the ( non-existent ) harbour , turns right into a previously unsuspected street or quay along its edge and disappears from view . |
| 13 | You 'll be able to get out of the car know darling , instead of climbing into the hedge wo n't you ? . |