Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] [pron] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably it would be far more sensible to insist on being taken home , instead of torturing herself with his company with his nearness like this , but she could n't summon the will to argue it out , as she knew he would . |
| 2 | Artists and the artistic community must stop deluding themselves and from now onwards begin scrutinising the very structure of their thought , instead of contenting themselves with pointless posturing systematically contradicted by the way in which art is produced and distributed . |
| 3 | Instead of comparing himself with them and feeling satisfied , he compares himself with a boy who 's much better off financially . |
| 4 | Instead of showering it with bouquets for its achievements , he prefers to see it , in the words of the popular song , |
| 5 | ‘ I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh or to move their mind with tickling laxity and affect them as a stage player used to do , instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God . ’ |
| 6 | If the singular universal increasingly punctuates the forward movement of Sartre 's text instead of providing it with a dialectical meaning and direction , the problem that it was invoked to solve meanwhile takes its own aberrant course . |
| 7 | When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent . |
| 8 | It was n't fair that your grandmother left her fortune to him instead of sharing it with you just because he 's a man and she had an old-fashioned prejudice that women should n't own money . |
| 9 | Then again , they peel their apples with fancy , little knives instead of savaging them with their gnashers . |
| 10 | Why can not this Tory Government honour their pledge under the treaty to get rid of nuclear weapons , which will mean the withdrawal of Polaris — which is literally cracking up — and the saving of £10 billion on Trident , to be spent on the national health service to care for lives instead of threatening them with mass murder ? |
| 11 | Jerking the trigger instead of squeezing it with a steady pressure , meant the gun muzzle being pulled slightly down and left for the first shot . |