Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] towards [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We walked out into the square and on towards Yardarm Street and Commercial Road without looking back . |
| 2 | I went and stood in the corridor and watched the towns and villages flash past ; we went through Chalon-sur-Saône , Dijon and on towards Lyons . |
| 3 | Through Santa Cruz and on towards San Francisco , whose sky-scraper-stacked skyline stands out as a silent rebuke to the Manhattanisation of the city , for which many residents blame ex-mayor and gubernatorial candidate Dianne Feinstein . |
| 4 | Beardmore 's loomed like a sleeping giant over the hill , and down towards Shettleston Road a break in the clouds painted a fleeting blue on the topmost windows of the tenements . |
| 5 | They walked up Holborn , across the darkening common which stretched out before the old city walls , into the pestiferous area around Newgate and down towards Cheapside . |
| 6 | We reached the muddy cobbles of the city , going through Bowyers Row and up towards Cripplegate . |
| 7 | At the sound of gunfire the refugee ship turned away and made off round the southern counties and up towards Liverpool , where it was finally recognised as a friendly vessel . |
| 8 | The kilometre long cutting emerges onto a longer embankment with extensive views over the Tame valley and back towards West Bromwich . |
| 9 | At the summit cairn on Shunner Fell , we paused only for a few seconds to look towards Swaledale and back towards Mallerstang before moving on . |