Example sentences of "instead she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead she chattered about the law and the law exams and found Davide 's last letter from Riba , and showed Tommaso the flourishing strokes of her brother 's handwriting , and asked him if he too wrote with such tails on his p's and g's and such loops on his l's and d's ? |
| 2 | Instead she gazed into the dully glowing ashes of the dying fire and remembered a wild , enchanted garden and a tender , handsome soldier who had awoken her to approaching womanhood with one gentle kiss and a rose . |
| 3 | Instead she drove to the canal and walked along the narrow path where small boys threw car tyres into the dark half-frozen water . |
| 4 | Instead she glanced about the small chamber off the hall into which she had been ushered , thanking whatever saint had been responsible that de Raimes was apparently going to keep her to himself . |
| 5 | Instead she went towards the fire , and slowly sat down on one of the corduroy sofas . |
| 6 | She did not beg her , as Cati did — Rosa had heard her — to help her be good , help her to be pure , and never have dirty thoughts or put her fingers in dirty places ; instead she fixed on the amber doe 's eyes that had gushed , above the hilt of a sword , which was studded with bright glass stones and stuck out from the statue 's brocade costume . |
| 7 | So instead she stormed into the kitchen , surveyed the two lumps of meat and the assortment of vegetables , threw them all into the largest pot she could lay her hands on , and fried them . |
| 8 | Instead she moved to the window and stood with her back towards Lucy . |
| 9 | Instead she settled for the three most applicable adjectives she could think of . |
| 10 | Instead she concentrated on the completion , launch and shakedown of her new Mike Pockock-designed short-handed racing boat Q2 , a truly innovative yacht , custom-built and designed to win her class in the 1992 single-handed transatlantic race . |
| 11 | Instead she runs in the Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket 's July meeting and , with luck , next season 's 1,000 Guineas . |