Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ever he tried to do more — to hop or semi-fly down towards them to try to catch them — they simply darted away and out of reach . |
| 2 | Continue these small heading changes until the pointer is steady or moving back towards centre . |
| 3 | Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police . |
| 4 | The second possibility is that the high-velocity masers are emitted in molecular gas flowing out from ( or flowing in towards ) the nuclear region . |
| 5 | The little boy was standing in the passage that led out towards the front garden . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was standing at the edge of the water , looking into the turgid grey-brown eddies that poured down towards Breidden with such force and in so absolute a silence . |
| 8 | And where for a moment a gap had shown between her boot-top and her heat-suit , a midnight vein swooped across the wall to form a bulge that thickened out towards the naked skin of her leg . |
| 9 | Jean-Claude had taken me along a lane that struck out towards a château it fell short of reaching . |
| 10 | Alexander took her hand and led her to the door that led out on to the path that wound down towards the beach . |
| 11 | Hold rear legs gently backwards and comb down towards the foot . |
| 12 | The beauty had disappeared below deck now and Fernando was leaning on the handrail waiting for her and gazing out towards the harbour buildings . |
| 13 | The van slewed wildly , but kept travelling , smoke appearing from its rear tyres as it swerved and skidded back towards the exit . |
| 14 | Another rustle followed before a glossy blackbird hopped out and made off towards the parkland . |
| 15 | ‘ As the Prussians came up , the coachman unhitched the horses , and made off towards Genappe . |
| 16 | He turned on his heel and made off towards his car without waiting for a reply . |
| 17 | He burst out laughing , and before she could retort he swivelled and made back towards the stables . |
| 18 | A great cry compounded of rage , sorrow , hatred and vituperation went up from the town walls as the colourful company under the Plantagenet Leopards turned and rode back towards the castle , leaving the slight jerking figure to its dance of death . |
| 19 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 20 | Lio ! rt 's dragon was already airborne and circling around towards them . |
| 21 | and hurry on towards no destination , |
| 22 | A wide semicircle of Germans and Repubblichini formed on the edge of the pianura near Parma and moved up towards the mountains , looting and burning villages ; some times shooting in the air to spread terror and sometimes hanging or deporting the inhabitants . |
| 23 | I checked the position of the pin , rather generously placed in the right centre of the green , and moved on towards the tenth hole . |
| 24 | We stopped the boat and drifted for a while , and the birds relaxed and moved back towards Bound Skerry the rock in a long line — which did the trick ! |
| 25 | When he saw Robert , he made what looked like a little , stunted bow and moved back towards the boys on the lawn . |
| 26 | Jenna snapped , spinning away and storming off towards the house . |
| 27 | The mullet pick up speed and head in towards land cleverly putting us between them and the dolphins . |
| 28 | It was a gentle pull up Lovely Seat to the cairn , but again the June winds of our English summer were too cold for anything but a brief look over to Shunner and south to Dodd Fell and the distinct hump of Ingleborough before taking a compass bearing and walking off towards Hardraw . |
| 29 | She stood for several moments in front of the altar before turning away and walking back towards the door . |
| 30 | But one grey-haired uplander disappeared into a hole below a boulder and was pulled out by the hair and carried back towards Keltney on a stretcher of cut branches . |