Example sentences of "[noun] instead of [v-ing] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skipper headed straight for the dressing room instead of staying to shout his support from the dug-out . |
| 2 | In her view , past promotions should have focussed on individual sections of the population instead of trying to interest everyone at once . |
| 3 | I should have let you take responsibility for your actions instead of trying to protect you . |
| 4 | Installation is easier than with mains-voltage supplies too , because you can simply trail the cables across the ground instead of having to bury them . |
| 5 | Also , subscribers can use any Dialplus node instead of having to register their password on each one separately . |
| 6 | ‘ Girls come up against an obstacle or two , maybe on tour , and they tend to give way instead of trying to overcome them . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Girls come up against an obstacle or two , maybe on tour , and they tend to give way instead of trying to overcome them . ’ |
| 8 | At the same time they might even pick up a few tips from Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram instead of trying to put them down . |
| 9 | Or it may arise because we are pursuing a particular path and if we went back upstream we could avoid the problem instead of trying to solve it . |