Example sentences of "set [adv prt] in the [adj] direction " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it !
2 Sandison waited for one minute and then also left , setting off in the opposite direction from Maidstone .
3 On the Iraqi side of the frontier , the town of al-Amarah , on the easternmost of the three Baghdad-Basrah roads , was seldom free of military activity , with convoys of trucks and armour pouring into it , and private cars and taxis carrying battlefield coffins on their roofs frequently setting off in the opposite direction .
4 He left by the gatehouse , openly , and took the road along the Foregate , in case anyone happened to notice and check that he set off in the appropriate direction .
5 Sandison himself set off in the opposite direction , towards his pensione .
6 He also sped off across Dartmoor in search of Tamara but , totally confused , after running wildly around , set off in the wrong direction , heading north between gently wooded hills to reach the Atlantic .
  Next page