I mean, instead of collecting baseball cards I was collecting holy cards".
Instead of collecting a percentage of store revenue, Chicken Delight required franchisees to buy all supplies from the parent company.
Then we thought: instead of collecting stuff and putting it in cupboards, why don't we put everything in them?
"Instead of collecting evidence they acted way too quickly, right around the 2009 elections," Mr. Ackerman said.
Autopista Central, a Santiago highway operated by ACS, a Spanish company, bills drivers each month instead of collecting tolls.
Instead of collecting the debt, however, Last Week Tonight partnered with RIP Medical Debt charity and decided to forgive that debt.
In one early scene, he describes graduate students participating in a Department of Health rabies study, killing hundreds of bats instead of collecting them live.
Instead of collecting nectar from flowers, the bees were feeding on remnants of M&M candy shells processed by a biogas plant nearby.
"Instead of collecting taxes at the door of the factory, you would collect them at the door of the store," he says.
Yet had Zara Phillips managed a clear round, as she did later in the individual competition, instead of collecting seven penalty points, they would have won gold.
Instead of collecting paper cards and fumbling through wallets at the cash register, customers are increasingly using their cellphones to track their visits and purchases, and receive rewards.
