Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an early church , dating from the ninth-century , which was rebuilt under the direction of San Carlo Borromeo . |
| 2 | ‘ I was getting a bit discouraged with the direction of the people I was working with on ‘ Black Sheets Of Rain' , ’ confides Bob . |
| 3 | Students have to be willing to work under the direction of the lecturer . |
| 4 | Starting from the pole the local vector is carried along the direction it points ( a line of longitude ) to the equator ( A ) . |
| 5 | Once , as she was heading towards the gate ( thus walking in the direction opposite to that which Agnes was to take somewhat later , followed by the gaze of her unfortunate schoolfriend ) , the secretary turned , smiled and lifted her arm out in the air in an unexpected gesture , easy and flowing . |
| 6 | Rose said she 'd seen her walking in the direction of the milking sheds , and with a little nod Ellie went out into the grounds . |
| 7 | However , as I start walking in the direction of the lake he merely steps into stride . |
| 8 | From the angle at which the bullet had penetrated the keg it had to have come from the direction of the shed . |
| 9 | To locate it , begin at Beta Cygni and then identify 2 Cygni ( 4.9 ) which lies in the direction of Vega . |
| 10 | First identify Alpha Apodis , which lies in the direction of a line through Alpha Centauri and Alpha Circini . |
| 11 | But the chief impediment lies in the direction . |
| 12 | The final difference lies in the direction of the hammers . |
| 13 | Robert , Herluin , Hugh and the stranger departed in the direction of the abbot 's lodging , where Radulfus had already come out to greet them . |
| 14 | I realized that the odd muffled mumbling from the direction of my co-star before our first entrance was the sentence on the business-card . |
| 15 | A strange object or sound will result in the ears being fully pricked in the direction of the stimulus , in order to pick up any relevant sounds . |
| 16 | In the nineteenth century , Beethoven and especially Wagner moved in the direction of the expansion of dissonance . |
| 17 | Doreen and Silas were still where she had left them , making two shadowy figures in the moonlight , and , even as she watched , they moved in the direction of the road that led towards the highway . |
| 18 | The trees shook , even the ground beneath me shook , as I suddenly realised that a salvo of heavy shells was passing over at tree height , and everyone — including the prisoners — scattered in the direction of the dug-outs ; the salvo hit the ground a short distance away with an almighty roar , the explosions throwing debris over a wide area . |
| 19 | Meredith waved goodbye and watched her set off back the way they had come in the direction of Pook 's stables . |
| 20 | Those with a knowledge of simple trigonometry will recognise that oscillation in any other direction perpendicular to z , say in the direction x , could be made up from a component proportional to cos u in the direction x and a component proportional to sin u in the direction y . |
| 21 | He fled in the direction of Aberystwyth Rugby Club . |
| 22 | She crouched down , holding her breath , and peered in the direction of the sound . |
| 23 | The Doctor peered in the direction she had indicated . |
| 24 | The Moi immediately climbed other trees and peered in the direction of his finger ; then they began chattering excitedly to Devraux in their own language . |
| 25 | ‘ Hope he 's had the sense to go inside , ’ he mumbled and he headed in the direction of home . |
| 26 | Hugging the blackest shadows , all five mimers headed in the direction that the amputated Blood Drinker had outlined . |
| 27 | He flung it open and shouted in the direction of the offending instrument . |
| 28 | ‘ Then how do you account for a statement by a witness who claims that you passed him in your van , driving in the direction of Penzance , at about 11.45 that night ? ’ |
| 29 | It shows two men wearing gloves walking from the direction of the first explosion . |
| 30 | It had thrown up some very challenging cross-references in its time , and she was at the moment pursuing a connection between the nature of quattrocento pigmentation and lichenology as a method of dating the antiquity of landscape : a gratifyingly pointless and therefore pure pursuit , which enabled her mind to wander in the direction of Italy and to hover about the abstraction of a particular shade of green-blue which she had noted in many a painted Italian scene as well as in the lichens of ancient English woodland . |