Example sentences of "instead [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stifled an urge to brain her son with it , and instead placed it in the sink . |
| 2 | I thought I was being taken to the prison but instead found myself outside the door of Le Coq d'Or . |
| 3 | If it is windy Tracey will not risk taking him on the roads , and instead exercises him in the school , but she never jumps him . |
| 4 | For some reason though , the evil Krip does n't have the sense to smash all the records and has instead scattered them over the island . |
| 5 | The caveman does not need to think or use blood in digestive processes , but instead needs it in the arms and legs for running and fighting . |
| 6 | When asked to hold themselves accountable to their residents , local authorities chose instead to clobber them with a 30 per cent . |
| 7 | Our negativity may have sent the fire brigade on strike , or even made them uncouple their hoses from that hydrant that gave all that lovely , cool life-giving water that would have quenched the fire and instead couple them to the nearest petrol tank . |
| 8 | In any event most sellers prefer , as a commercial issue , not to discuss such questions with their buyers , and , instead to protect themselves by the use of appropriate credit vetting procedures , or else , where possible , by requiring payment upon delivery , or even in advance of delivery . |
| 9 | In the spadefoot , the intense competition among males for females means that some over-anxious males do not wait for the females to get into the pond but instead waylay them on the way to the breeding ground ; the pair then arrive at the pond already in amplexus . |
| 10 | But he was incapable of saying more , and instead seized her in a bearlike hug , heedless of her cry that he was squashing her . |
| 11 | A very successful use for this light when knitting tuck is to use a medium thickness fluffy yarn , one which would knit over every needle on your machine , but instead use it on every other needle . |
| 12 | The north should stop tut-tutting about juridical lapses or dictatorial ways and instead do something about the low commodity prices and the debt burdens that make the poor even poorer . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times . |
| 14 | Apparently Ray still could n't bring himself to sell it , and instead donated it to a pond built by the Norwich section of the BKKS for a local Cheshire Home . |
| 15 | Mam chose instead to take us to a different hill station every year so that we travelled the length and breadth of India , from Kashmir in the far north-west , four days ' journey by train and road , to the Nilgiri near Simla , and Darjeeling . |
| 16 | The second , referred to obscurely in Helen 's last letter from Margate , was Mr Thomas 's decision that Edward should not take up a Civil Service post , but instead prepare himself for an Oxford entrance scholarship . |
| 17 | Why is it that European companies do not regard looking after their workers well in terms of hours and wages as destroying competitiveness , but instead see it as a way to obtain good work from their workers ? |
| 18 | The most obviously myopic strategy is the one that ignores the dynamic aspects of the problem but instead treats it as a sequence of eight one-period problems . |