Example sentences of "instead [verb] it [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |