Example sentences of "instead of [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 2 | Why did I , why did I do , put them in the machine instead of dropping them on the floor then ? |
| 3 | Refusing to rise to the bait , she visualised and counted ten elephants , a hangover habit from her childhood , then , her voice tightly controlled , asked , ‘ Would you please explain why you insisted on bringing me here instead of taking me to the Trevi ? ’ |
| 4 | And instead of taking them to the operating room for a T U R , instead we took them to the urodynamics lab . |
| 5 | Instead of taking it over a thirty five year period , what you would then have is that you go up very steeply let's say by putting lump sums or er regular capital premiums erm which you 'll receive a tax refund and then it stops but the benefits of the fund keep going so at age sixty they would have the same effect of reaching your pension there with no contributions |
| 6 | Jill thought a moment then announced her decision , which was that she agreed to keep the secret provided Jennifer riddled out the cinders every morning from then on , instead of taking it in turns . |
| 7 | Instead of telephoning him at work to blame or to demand attention for herself , she responded to the emergency and visited the office with soup and sandwiches to keep them all going through the evening . |
| 8 | ‘ Instead of setting it in type we got the original manuscript and made zinc plates ’ , recalls Miles . |
| 9 | Instead of ordering her off the boat , he was now beginning a more subtle campaign . |
| 10 | Probably it would be far more sensible to insist on being taken home , instead of torturing herself with his company with his nearness like this , but she could n't summon the will to argue it out , as she knew he would . |
| 11 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 12 | In which case it would make more sense to elect proven adulterers instead of discouraging them from public life . |
| 13 | The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin . |
| 14 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 15 | instead of sending it through the post at Christmas I thought I 'd bring it . |
| 16 | She added that the effect had been enhanced by Miss Minoprio 's " curious mannerism of waving the club to and fro above the ball instead of addressing it in the conventional manner " . |
| 17 | Artists and the artistic community must stop deluding themselves and from now onwards begin scrutinising the very structure of their thought , instead of contenting themselves with pointless posturing systematically contradicted by the way in which art is produced and distributed . |
| 18 | Instead of comparing himself with them and feeling satisfied , he compares himself with a boy who 's much better off financially . |
| 19 | Do n't too , because it 's a very difficult thing to do , attractive though it looks when , instead of producing anything of between sixty and eighty thousand words , all you have got to do is to produce , say , as few as one thousand . |
| 20 | Instead of showering it with bouquets for its achievements , he prefers to see it , in the words of the popular song , |
| 21 | He 'd washed his hair and piled all his plastic carrier bags into a corner instead of strewing them through the house like the clues of a treasure-hunt . |
| 22 | He lifted her bag out but , instead of handing it to her , he kept a firm grip on it and began to walk towards the house . |
| 23 | And instead of distancing herself from her subject with the language of ‘ scientific ’ detachment , her message is one of passionate commitment to the primates she has studied for almost the whole of her adult life . |
| 24 | It does not mean — what it all too often has become — an aid to impulse buying , ‘ immediate ’ gardening , and the idea that ‘ if we lift them and pot them up instead of leaving them in the ground , we can sell them in a couple of weeks time as ‘ container grown ’ ’ . |
| 25 | Examples would be the abandonment in the later eighteenth century of figured bass and of optional parts in favour of completely written-out orchestral scores ; and the writing out of vocal ornamentation by Rossini , followed by other nineteenth-century Italian opera composers , instead of leaving it to be improvised — though this did not necessarily mean that singers followed their instructions ! |
| 26 | They even put him in the coffin and shipped him home instead of leaving it to a local undertaker . |
| 27 | This needs appropriate institutions , similar to Marshall Aid after the war , instead of leaving it to the World Bank and the IMF and various ad hoc advisers . |
| 28 | So it was that in indicating my reasons for preferring the West Country for my motoring , instead of leaving it at mentioning several of the alluring details as conveyed by Mrs Symons 's volume , I made the error of declaring that a former housekeeper of Darlington Hall was resident in that region . |
| 29 | And I left it on the side instead of leaving it in the grill . |
| 30 | Erm so , so I mean and then , you know , he describes various examples where you know if you get hit by your best mate you basically , you know , instead of telling him to F off you say down with imperialism type of thing . |