Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And company cars are to be taxed according to price instead of engine size . |
| 2 | But you can achieve specific aims , and making people think about going to church instead of B & Q is a measurable objective . ’ |
| 3 | I am pleased that when it came to the crunch I tried to help the people calling for help instead of thinking about what might happen . |
| 4 | Index which was started by Littlewoods , as a rival to the immensely successful Argos stores , is moving into profit ahead of time |
| 5 | Index which was started in 1986 as a rival to the immensely successful Argos stores , is moving into profit ahead of time . |
| 6 | His coach had been parked out of sight while his white saddle horse had been tethered to a post at the roadside so that the passing soldiers would think their Emperor was riding to war instead of being carried in upholstered comfort . |
| 7 | He already knew most of the city 's different districts and its short cuts , its sudden changes of place and people ; it was just that now he would see the shop windows shining at night instead of by day , see them gliding past from a car or taxi window as he was driven home for the night . |
| 8 | Perhaps she should be reading about infidelity instead of impiety . |
| 9 | Tonson took a risk , swinging into production ahead of the event ; and this time he was caught out . |
| 10 | Wallowing in self-pity instead of fighting back . |
| 11 | But the the the railway stock was in such a bad state , that that 's when people started the real activists of the Labour movement really started talking about confiscation instead of compensation . |
| 12 | It was his strongly expressed desire to annex the Grand Duchy of Tuscany to the hereditary provinces of the monarchy which at least in part prevented the putting into force there of the constitution of 1782 . |
| 13 | She really ought to be thinking of work instead of calling Fernando Serra 's bluff . |