Example sentences of "instead [prep] go to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of going to the bar , he went out for a walk down the road . |
| 2 | I 'll run in the Bath Half-marathon instead of going to the Vets Cross-Country Championships in Wales . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I can lend them money instead of going to the pawnshop . |
| 4 | GOOD for Princess Anne , waiting for her children to arrive in Barcelona instead of going to the Opening Ceremony without them . |
| 5 | The situation is rather as though instead of going to the zoo I had invited a small group of creatures to come to me . |
| 6 | And I further think you 're working all on your ownsome on this and that 's why you 've come to good old Uncle Mo instead of going to the boys at Langley . |
| 7 | Instead of going to the Club as he usually did for lunch , Owen went to Zeinab 's apartment . |
| 8 | The Communist Party Central Committee complained in February 1932 : The Minority Movement is a small self-absorbed organization of leaders who have nothing to do with the real struggle of the workers and who instead of going to the workers , working among them and fighting against the reformist leaders in the Trade Unions , simply approach the workers with the invitation to take part in a highly elaborate organisational structure . |
| 9 | A few of these mobilised larvae , instead of going to the uterus , complete the normal migration in the bitch , and the resulting adult worms produce a transient but marked increase in faecal Toxocara egg output in the weeks following parturition . |