Sentence examples for instead after I from inspiring English sources

"Instead, after I told him that I'd like to work for him, he said, 'Wow, that's great, you're hired.' " Cynthia Kuker, Ms. Goldman's boss, says the hot economy has forced her company's executives to soften their old hiring requirements.

Instead, after I had listened quietly to my son, I asked him to listen to me.

Instead, after school I moved to Pretoria to study art.

Instead, after much thought, I turned to another way of telling, language that I hoped would bring both myself and the reader very close to events in another way; bring us to that moment just before one turns away; a moment of intense thought and feeling.

Now instead, after so long, I'm starting to miss my country and be worried for my family, my daughter and husband.

Watching I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! from the comfort of my hand-crafted velvet sofa with my snout in a tub of Strawberry Cheesecake Haagen-Dazs and a glass of something lively in my chubby little fist, I was curious as to who they got "instead" of me after I turned the gig down for the second year in a row.

Instead, after years of use, I began to depend on the drug.

Instead, after my surprisingly satisfying walk, I gaze at the sea; enjoy a massage; take in a concert of folksy, home-grown talent.

But I enjoyed it so much that I came back 13 years later instead, after playing for Barnsley, Wigan, Portsmouth and Coventry.

I say the Observer will need a photograph to go with this interview and he asks with boyish mischief: "Couldn't we use her instead?" It is only after I get home that I realise I failed to ask him how he intends to spend his birthday.

But I wish his wife would run instead, after leaving him in the dust.