Example sentences of "instead [pers pn] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead I wedged a chair under the door handle so he could n't get in . |
| 2 | I should have been really happy , but instead I felt a depression come over me . |
| 3 | ‘ So instead you got a job in the City ? ’ |
| 4 | Instead she advocated a return to elegance … dressing-up in the widest , and often wildest , sense . |
| 5 | Instead she took a tram to the Pier Head and walked about until the hands of the Cunard clock stood at half past ten . |
| 6 | ‘ Instead we see a defending , retreating side rewarded with possession if they can stop the attacking side with the ball and prevent that ball from emerging . |
| 7 | Instead we have a mixture of measures that will not be enough to bring about recovery . ’ |
| 8 | Instead they had a disaster . |
| 9 | It 's like this people th they 're deep sea divers and they discover , they 're stuck in the crevice , a big erm nuclear submarine and what it 's for is an experiment that 's gone wrong and it it 's to make and instead they make an abomination you know , incredibly powerful and intelligent but really nasty you know , murderous and killer and so they take they take him to these people . |
| 10 | Instead they sent a message to Chaman , who used to visit the village every so often . |
| 11 | Instead they received a delegation of government officials , scientists , economists and businessmen . |
| 12 | The government did not agree with these proposals , Instead they introduced a requirement to appoint one officer responsible for reviewing the propriety and legality of council business ( the ‘ monitoring officer ’ ) and another responsible for the management of council services ( Local Government and Housing Act 1989 : clauses 4 and 5 ) . |
| 13 | The East German guards had no preparation , no time to adjust to a psychological fall-out — instead they faced a void , ’ she says . |
| 14 | Gone was the slow talking , up-state sheriff , instead they caught a glimpse of the real sharpness and authority that lay underneath . |
| 15 | Instead they face a rationing problem , where priority is awarded according to assessment of ‘ need ’ . |
| 16 | Sometimes loan agreements do not state a specific amount for the payments : instead they include a formula to be used for their calculation . |
| 17 | Instead it involves a shift in function in an interactional category , and it is exactly here — in the interactions between individuals — that we would expect to see most clearly the results of inter-ethnic contact . |
| 18 | Instead it became a nightmare . |
| 19 | Instead it sought an equilibrium , a labour — consumption balance between its economic , social and cultural necessities on the one side and the output of labour by the family on the other . |
| 20 | Instead it switched a light on inside my head that enabled me to see things , which at the time , were away beyond my full understanding . |
| 21 | ‘ Instead he chose a foreigner — a girl with no background — no class . ’ |
| 22 | Instead he took a sheaf of glossy photographs from his portmanteau and pushed them across the table towards the Corsican . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Instead he became a pupil of Robert Stephenson [ q.v. ] and was engaged on the construction of railway lines in central Scotland and elsewhere . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Instead he explores a number of aspects that all inhere in a state of contemplative awareness of a reality beyond time . |
| 30 | Instead he did a couple more fortysomething things . |