Example sentences of "instead he [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Instead he chose a foreigner — a girl with no background — no class . ’ |
| 2 | Instead he took a sheaf of glossy photographs from his portmanteau and pushed them across the table towards the Corsican . |
| 3 | Instead he took a curtain call , and at the last minute before he was to slide behind the curtains behind the bar , he reached for the flowers thrown to him earlier and broke off some of the roses , swaggering round the circle of admirers handing out the roses to the women . |
| 4 | Instead he describes a crisis which he sees as spreading throughout the entire penal system , affecting other penal disposals such as probation , community service , fines and so on . |
| 5 | Instead he proposes an approach that asks the question ‘ How do these people deal with certain basic human predicaments ? ’ and makes the pertinent point that ‘ the problem is not the quality we have isolated , e.g. , aggression , but how far we can get with an adequate description of what we have found ’ . |
| 6 | Instead he became a pupil of Robert Stephenson [ q.v. ] and was engaged on the construction of railway lines in central Scotland and elsewhere . |
| 7 | Instead he became an alcoholic ( a ‘ half-alcoholic ’ he preferred to call it ) who required to dry-out in hospital about 50 times over a 25-year period . |
| 8 | Instead he read a paper he 'd bought in Trieste and forgotten to throw away , immersing himself in a debate over the council 's delay in resurfacing the streets in an outlying zone of the city until it was time to go to work . |
| 9 | Instead he explores a number of aspects that all inhere in a state of contemplative awareness of a reality beyond time . |
| 10 | Instead he did a couple more fortysomething things . |
| 11 | She thought he was going to read it , but instead he tore a piece off the corner . |