Example sentences of "instead [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A committee of clerics and nobles meeting at Scone in 1295 persuaded the so-called King John that enough was enough , and that instead of pandering to the King of England he should seek an alliance with the King of France . |
| 2 | It felt like he was bored , like he was playing with his camera instead of getting into the thing . |
| 3 | And erm so er er if people do that And er this this businessman , this week , he he rang and he he was sending messages via the secretary , instead of getting on the phone to me and and me finding out what there was , he finally he s he said There 'll be about an hour 's work . |
| 4 | After two days , in which it had become clear that Daod was organizing a drug shipment from Lebanon via Cyprus to Bulgaria , a well-worn route through the Eastern bloc into Western Europe , he decided to go home and sleep with his wife instead of staying on the job , as instructed , in case of overnight calls . |
| 5 | punctuation that is allowed to fall outside the margins instead of staying within the measure of the text . |
| 6 | But instead of crashing to the ground , I was caught , by my trousers , on a pin in her clothes . |
| 7 | he told them he 'd stopped in the fast lane instead of moving to the hard shoulder because he did n't want to ruin his tyre by driving on after a puncture . |
| 8 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 9 | Instead of moving against the British they disappeared into the jungle and their Bogyoke announced , ‘ We are now at war ’ — at war with Japan . |
| 10 | Instead of dealing with the problem of a shrinking environment , for many years , scientists have wanted to protect the panda by taking them away and intervening with modern and more effective methods . |
| 11 | Apparently turf was a great talking point in this country , where people greeted one another with ‘ Have you got your turf in ? ’ instead of commenting on the weather . |
| 12 | When we look at each of the small group " scenes " we can accord them much higher status ; instead of commenting on the changing position of the door handle , we can discuss which moments from each of the " interviews " we will keep in the documentary ; we have an informing context in which to discuss what each of the interviewees said . |
| 13 | In the end I bullied Andy , I said , Andy there is something fishy about this fire he said well it 's possible he said that it was erm a display model and every time anybody came in and needed a replacement part instead of sending for the part they took it out of the display model ! |
| 14 | With the cold winter evenings ahead why not try out some of these differing styles as alternative self-portraits instead of trying on the Euromask ? |
| 15 | To be defeated , honourably , by the multiplicity of the unpredictable , instead of living with the power of her knowingness ? |
| 16 | He continues , ‘ Instead of reaching for the brown sauce , my book suggests deglazing the meat juice with water to rediscover the taste of real food ; the same goes for the taste of real vanilla rather than vanilla flavouring ; and the taste and simplicity of pan-fried fish with a dash of lime juice . ’ |
| 17 | But instead of ploughing through the text , their introduction to the play comes from Tilt — a new Gloucester-based company . |
| 18 | Presumably that 's to encourage people to turn up instead of piling down the pub to watch it on sky tv . |
| 19 | It is because young people of both sexes are increasingly seeking work on the mainland , instead of participating in the precarious agricultural island economy as their elders continue to do . |
| 20 | Instead of switching to the next phases to be excited are , which enables the motor to develop maximum negative torque at that position . |
| 21 | Then , instead of shaping at the extreme neck edge , or within a few stitches of a fully fashioned neck shaping , work the cable pattern , with two or so stitches between it and the neck edge and work the neck shaping within the cable pattern and the remaining stocking stitch of the shoulder edge . |
| 22 | Luke 's face tightened , but instead of reacting to the taunt , he pursued his earlier accusation . |
| 23 | Instead of reacting against the bias in their chosen paper , readers tended ( at the margin ) to defend their paper ( if it was biased against their party ) or even to glory in its bias ( if it was biased in favour of their party ) . |
| 24 | Instead of insisting on the possibility that there be no adequate translation , we should recognize what indeterminacy really means ; the different indistinguishably good translations are all as good as translations can hope to be . |
| 25 | Well he , he , they were on their way to Norwich but they stopped off at Ipswich for a lunch , you see , and er I had , I looked after them , so , so that it should n't interrupt the other girls behind the counter or , or the waiter who was looking after his regular customers in the dining room , you see , er and so I used to erm and once I had I remember there was six black doctors came in and er and I was glad because it was nice to move about and instead of sticking in the office typing and then going out all alone , you see , while the Manager was on the district , you see , I liked it and er anyway that was a long time ago . |
| 26 | Each pattern proclaims that it has the solution instead of collaborating in the search . |
| 27 | Instead of profiting from the enormous interest in gambling on football results through the ‘ pools ’ system , the FA 's puritanism led to a futile and absurd confrontation in 1936 , which involved the withholding of fixture lists to frustrate the pools companies . |
| 28 | For well over a century the design has been available whilst in 1909 the Science Museum , for example , acquired the example to be seen in the Computing Then and Now gallery , purchasing the cheaper of the two production models made by Messrs Newton and Co. and fully described in the firm 's literature Stratton 's brainchild differs from the Newton model only in having the second pendulum attached to the pen instead of hanging below the main pendulum under the table . |
| 29 | In these conditions I wanted to get rid of about a third of the original sail area and so that 's it , now I 'm sailing much more happily instead of struggling against the boat I 'm sailing in harmony again . |
| 30 | In the first place , instead of searching for the long-term consequences of early family experiences , a switch has taken place to the study of immediate effects . |