Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] to 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 | But instead of crashing to the ground , I was caught , by my trousers , on a pin in her clothes . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Instead of switching to the next phases to be excited are , which enables the motor to develop maximum negative torque at that position . |
5 | Luke 's face tightened , but instead of reacting to the taunt , he pursued his earlier accusation . |
6 | Instead of aiming to the left , where his forwards were lined up , Parry attempted to deceive the Llanelli defence by taking a quick drop-out . |
7 | Next day Elspeth went to mount the horse again , but this time she was chatting to a friend instead of listening to the horse . |
8 | But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after , the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics . |
9 | But then , instead of returning to the siege of Pons , he led his army in May 1179 to the enterprise which was to establish him once and for all as an acknowledged expert in the vital art of siege warfare : the capture of Taillebourg . |
10 | Instead of returning to the dressing-room to change as she normally did , she made her way through the backstage area back into the club , determined that he should n't simply disappear without trace as he 'd done on the previous evenings . |
11 | Other strands , particularly the Evangelical , have so concentrated on ‘ the Lord Jesus ’ in their teaching and worship that they have virtually made an idol of the flesh of Christ instead of coming to the Father through him . |
12 | Instead of responding to the challenge , the Government has stifled the demand for improvements in skill levels . |
13 | This tampering is fairly extensive and becomes tiresomely predictable ; moreover , instead of adding to the impact , already well-saturated textures are clouded even more . |
14 | Instead of going to the bar , he went out for a walk down the road . |
15 | I 'll run in the Bath Half-marathon instead of going to the Vets Cross-Country Championships in Wales . ’ |
16 | ‘ I can lend them money instead of going to the pawnshop . |
17 | GOOD for Princess Anne , waiting for her children to arrive in Barcelona instead of going to the Opening Ceremony without them . |
18 | The situation is rather as though instead of going to the zoo I had invited a small group of creatures to come to me . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Instead of going to the Club as he usually did for lunch , Owen went to Zeinab 's apartment . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | To this end , Bearpark is examining the feasibility of direct sales via retail outlets or catalogues , instead of selling to the end-user as in the past . |
24 | Leonora , wishing with all her heart she 'd listened to Elise and telephoned , instead of rushing to the island uninvited , squared her shoulders . |