Example sentences of "instead [prep] go [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , instead of going straight on towards Alice 's farm , they turned left for The Tiger 's Head , an old pub which stood off the road behind a dusty forecourt . |
| 2 | A rumour that he was casting 100 children went round St James 's School in Church Street , so instead of going straight home the girl pupils nipped off to the audition . |
| 3 | When you did it this way you go straight across , straight across , strai , but yo your second jumps you were doing you were going there like that instead of going straight across . |
| 4 | And you instead of taking the instead of going as far as the traffic lights to come to us , you take the exit before that which is |
| 5 | Instead of retreating instead of going underground instead of accepting that the situation had become extremely difficult and it was necessary to try and rebuild their organization and their influence gradually over a period of time , they committed their shattered forces to further battles and more or less completed er their destruction . |
| 6 | She went along Duke Street , then , instead of going down Little Brittain , decided to cut through Bartholomew Close . |
| 7 | I went to Selfridge 's sale instead of going home immediately . |
| 8 | Charles flew down from Aberdeen , Diana arrived from Highgrove ; but instead of going home together , at least for the night , they went their separate ways . |
| 9 | A major step in evolution was taken when cells that had been produced by successive splittings stuck together instead of going off independently . |