Example sentences of "[vb past] towards the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Phoenix King staggered towards the towering form of the Great Unclean One . |
| 2 | So blackly venomous was his expression that Perdita fled towards the next pitch , scattering the polo balls which lay like a hatch of goose eggs near the goal posts . |
| 3 | Then without a backward glance he fled towards the French windows , clutching the offending animal under his arm . |
| 4 | The ensuing tension between popular and legal norms concerning a married daughter 's rights was an important cause of land disputes , and also contributed towards the increased fragmentation of shares . |
| 5 | It does not require a great deal of imagination to accept that the unit of physical matter could be the product of a ‘ good ’ event if it contributed towards the desired end of a happy human race , but it does require a measure of mental effort to accept that each unit of ‘ good ’ produced a corresponding unit contributing towards God , that is , a unit of Godliness . |
| 6 | Maidstone turned and shouted towards the far end of the bar : ‘ Franco ! ’ |
| 7 | His eyes continually flickered towards the rear view mirror as he monitored the Mercedes ' progress with mounting apprehension . |
| 8 | Luciano Bartocci 's office was tall and narrow , with shelves of books that seemed to lean inwards like the sides of a chimney as they rose towards the distant ceiling . |
| 9 | Luke and Sonny headed towards the wide square of open ground which lay at the end of the lane . |
| 10 | Her eyes peered towards the deep end , where Nails was holding his brother down and the lifeguard was getting worried . |
| 11 | We camped about five kilometres north of Låddejåkkåstugan on the open moors by a stream that thundered towards the distant watershed from Virihaure . |
| 12 | I wandered towards the open country and the hills . |
| 13 | He wandered towards the old harbour , now little more than a quiet backwater . |
| 14 | He moved towards the inner door by which he had entered , no long time ago . |
| 15 | Donna got to her feet , still keeping low , and moved towards the small round window close to the front door in the hall . |
| 16 | He moved towards the first Apache , holding his drink , his elbow sliding along the edge of the bar until he was right next to the Apache . |
| 17 | As he moved towards the two men , Harry savoured the moments of secret observation that preceded their awareness of his presence . |
| 18 | Slowly , slowly , Ruth moved towards the pink cot by the wall . |
| 19 | As they moved towards the green baize door he added as an afterthought , ‘ Oh , and Elsa , if anyone asks you what nationality you are , say you 're Swiss . ’ |
| 20 | Charles switched off his torch with a dull click and moved towards the half-open door . |
| 21 | As they moved towards the next tee she nodded towards her niece . |
| 22 | He seized the candelabrum , and , lifting it high , moved towards the pale face . |
| 23 | They moved towards the left-hand urn , sliding through the crowd of their superiors as smoothly as serpents in the garden . |
| 24 | Seurat 's Dimanche après-midi à l'île de La Grande Jatte moved towards the abstract and uniform in form as it did in content , thereby making class distinctions between the figures on a Sunday outing that he drew difficult to see . |
| 25 | For the same reason these last two chairs are not turned to face the rest of the group : they have been set at an angle , obliquely oriented towards the open-work balustrade and the hillside opposite . |
| 26 | The dissolution of CENTO left ASEAN as the primary multilateral body of states in Asia predominantly oriented towards the Western powers in its security outlook and ties . |
| 27 | She crept towards the shattered front window and peered out . |
| 28 | I cursed , crept towards the front hall , then stopped dead as I heard voices . |
| 29 | She nodded in agreement and with Yanto 's assisting arm around her waist , tottered towards the grassy patch with a series of short restricted steps . |
| 30 | I shrank back while the fortune teller tottered towards the main street . |