Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] towards [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it swooped down towards something in the bog and vanished from sight . |
| 2 | passed down towards us , that 's right |
| 3 | Walking the floor to prove to yourself it was not rising to crush your bed as the walls slowly gathered in towards you and the ceiling lowered itself steadily downwards until it was an inch above your face . |
| 4 | Lady Mary smiled when she saw her daughter , and bent down towards her from her horse . |
| 5 | A man in a blue uniform was walking over towards them . |
| 6 | Then , en masse , they embraced and staggered off towards their waiting cars and frozen drivers . |
| 7 | After what seemed an age , Rubber Feet moved off towards what they call the Lavatory Tower ( not what it sounds like ) , Leather Feet must have figured I 'd gone inside the Cath because he pattered off up the steps , which of course meant the end of all hopes of returning to my refuge via the Crypt . |
| 8 | ‘ Aye aye , sir , ’ said Bodie glumly , watching as Cowley moved off towards his limousine . |
| 9 | Jamie is half dressed , one knee bent up towards his stomach . |
| 10 | He stood on his toes and peered up towards it . |
| 11 | And yes , yes , his hand moved up towards his eye . |
| 12 | This month sees both the UK and Italy voting for new governments , with the US winding up towards its elections in November . |
| 13 | Soon Paige could hear it too — there were people climbing up towards them and they were getting closer by the second . |
| 14 | ‘ Not very sensible , ’ he said , walking back towards her . |
| 15 | I went on , running where I could , and found him walking back towards me through the dayniter . |
| 16 | Cross ? but why as she walking back towards it ? |
| 17 | It also looks back towards his engagement with the primitive . |
| 18 | The postman was pedalling back towards them down the road . |
| 19 | Persistently , the device moved back towards them . |
| 20 | She took my arm and we moved back towards him . |
| 21 | If they witness something frightening , if they see someone messing up at school or losing friends , they 'll show concern , distance themselves from anything really threatening , enjoy a little frisson of fear and then slip back towards their old habits . |
| 22 | It did n't stop but came on towards us out of the trees . |
| 23 | But that day his mother had suddenly flown a warning flight , while his father rose into the air and swooped into the valley and back beneath the cliff edge , and suddenly a man was there with something green in his hand which rose into the sky above him and came down towards him . |
| 24 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 25 | He soared higher to lure them up and then folding his wings back stooped down towards them , gaining speed with each second and transfixing the weakest-looking one with his stare . |
| 26 | I saw Masha gliding through towards us : that unmistakable froth of brown hair , the exuberant , doll-like face ; and behind her , over-topping her , the bleak , dark face of Victor Surkov , his hair not grey as it had been when we last met some six years ago , but a brilliant yellow spreading down over his shoulders . |
| 27 | Down in the valley , a great light seemed to blaze up towards him . |
| 28 | She said it in her licence to kill voice , and Darren 's pale eyebrows wrinkled up towards her . |
| 29 | A heavier wave from the sea sent spray and water surging up towards them and they both lifted instinctively on the wind as the wave rushed under them . |
| 30 | It 's who 's facing Lawrence now , he 's in and bends off a short ball going towards Botham at leg gully , played it pretty well , in fact , the ball bouncing up towards his ribcage , angle the back down , played it very safely . |