Example sentences of "[verb] off towards [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After hearing pro-Yeltsin and anti-Gorbachev speeches they set off towards the Kremlin down Tverskaya ( formerly Gorky Street ) , Moscow 's main thoroughfare . |
| 32 | However , this began to trail off towards the end of June due to outside distractions — Wimbledon tennis and International cricket . |
| 33 | Above Thwaite the Pennine Way branches off towards the right , behind the intake wall , while a signpost to the left reads " Bridleway to Keld " . |
| 34 | However , it is not unusual to see pilots take off towards a heavy rain shower on a good soaring day instead of waiting until it has passed . |
| 35 | Without further ado , he started off towards the school buildings . |
| 36 | Dressed in silk and ablaze with jewellery , apparently to prove that Donna 's inheritance was no myth , Mavis Bricknell stumbled off towards the toilet room at the dome car 's entrance saying she must repair the ravages to her face , and presently she came back , screaming loudly . |
| 37 | Assailed from both sides , the masher decided that the game was not worth the candle , and , dodging by Neil , to the latter 's great relief , he scuttled off towards the Haymarket . |
| 38 | Perhaps the most telling of such echoes is that between the stallion 's ecstatic animal cry of " " wehee " " as it races off towards the mares ( 4066 ) and Alisons 's gleeful cry of " " tehee " " after making such a fool , in her way , of Absolon ( 3740 ) . |
| 39 | He had watched all four go off towards the tower with the rain beating down on them . |
| 40 | ‘ See yah around , ’ Billy bawled over his shoulder and waved as the bike took off towards the main Bristol road . |
| 41 | He turned and rushed back towards the cage ; but finding the gate barred , he skittered off towards the nearest group of spectators , hotly pursued by his enemy . |
| 42 | The guerrillas duly launched the missile north across the bay of Beirut at Jounieh , the first stage of the projectile falling into the Mediterranean as the warhead sped off towards the sleepy Christian harbour and its unsuspecting inhabitants . |
| 43 | Now I 'm stuck , she thought in panic , as they sped off towards the horizon . |
| 44 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 45 | He ambled off towards the nearest tray . |
| 46 | There was also mild throat-clearing as Mr Major strode off towards the largest car ferry in Europe with the words : ‘ Let's go and look at this boat ! ’ |
| 47 | She watched as he walked through the branches of the apple tree and strode off towards the house . |
| 48 | She tucked in her brown silk blouse , tossed her red hair free and strode off towards the editor 's office , Mitch behind her admiring her slender figure and keeping his thoughts strictly to himself . |
| 49 | Before either of his listeners could reply to these curt instructions , fitzAlan shoved his reins into the other man 's hands and strode off towards the forebuilding without another word . |
| 50 | He flipped just one of the bolts in a casual way and strode off towards the farmhouse across the Paddock . |
| 51 | She seemed to be more pleased with that , and flashing me a grin from over her shoulder went off towards the Clubhouse entrance . |
| 52 | The rain at this end of the island tends to die off towards the end of March , but it has certainly damaged pitches including that at the Government Stadium , which Paterson reckoned would be deemed unplayable by most clubs in Scotland . |
| 53 | A faint smell of gunpowder still hung in the air and a trail of bluish smoke drifted off towards the forest . |
| 54 | ‘ Desperately , desperately ill ! ’ she said , over her shoulder , then swooped down to the dishwasher , picked up a handful of plates , and marched off towards a cupboard . |
| 55 | She hops out , bangs the door shut only slightly too energetically , and strolls off towards the shops without a backward glance . |
| 56 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 57 | Thérèse had stormed off towards the village . |
| 58 | Cleo tore off towards a fold-up dining-room table on which a hairy brown cat I had n't noticed until now had begun to stir and stretch . |
| 59 | Absently , she saw Celia , her morning 's enjoyment no longer threatened , wander off towards a rock pool . |
| 60 | Had it been a real train the sound would have faded off towards the west — away from the hostel instead , and we could now hear the engine as well ; it came towards the hostel over the non-existent harbour branch and clattered to a stop , perhaps at one of the wharves . |