Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | The yellowish horns are of medium length , growing outwards and then curving slightly forwards in the bull , and finer and well spread in the cow , whose horns grow in various directions but preferably level and turning upwards at the tips , which are black . |
| 2 | Allegations and denials about country hideaways , romantic recordings and Princess Di 's secret assignations fly in all directions . |
| 3 | When you say in two direction , I mean we there 's no way they let you interview on the main line |
| 4 | The two parties walk in opposite directions and exchange car keys as they pass midway or , better still , at a rendezvous at the conspicuous landmark of Lady 's Pillar . |
| 5 | Volunteers constantly tug in all directions while others bewail the imminent end of the organization — just as they did last week , last year and ( in a few cases ) last decade . |
| 6 | In a war , however , the two considerations arguably tug in opposite directions . |
| 7 | I count in that direction though , so minus means , minus three means count the other way . |
| 8 | In particular , why is the temperature of the microwave background radiation so nearly the same when we look in different directions ? |
| 9 | I always look in both directions when I have to cross a one-way street . |
| 10 | Return flight between UK and overseas airport ( unless a self-drive holiday or Lake Garda Discovery tour is booked , and on coach/air combinations travel in one direction will be by luxury coach ) . |
| 11 | The frontiers of chemistry lie in many directions erm the frontiers of chemistry , of course , meet the frontiers of physics and the frontiers of biology . |
| 12 | In the same way , we know that the scales of size and time extend in both directions far outside the realm of what we can visualize . |
| 13 | Terms of reference that go beyond these matters will result from discussions between the parties , and probably the expert as well , where it is convenient to have terms of reference separate from procedural directions . |
| 14 | Peasants and shepherds scatter in all directions . |
| 15 | As to the last rendering , one of the possible meanings of is " take flight " , " scatter in all directions " , with reference to the rout of an army.3 Here is a figure less immediately accessible than the apparent metaphor of " dissolving " , " melting " , yet no less consistent with the poet 's intentions . |
| 16 | If two trains pass in opposite directions , each travelling at 125 m.p.h. , a passenger in one train will hear the whistle of the other train swoop down through a particularly dramatic Doppler Shift , since the relative velocity is 250 m.p.h . |
| 17 | You try to thumb a lift from the cars as they approach from either direction , sweeping you with their headlights . |
| 18 | Loretta was about to knock on the window and ask for further directions , when she shrugged and gave up . |
| 19 | It can not necessarily be considered as isotropic because if highly draw the chains become oriented and the elastic and other ( for example optical ) properties differ between different directions . |
| 20 | If the concentration increases to the right they turn in that direction until both antennae are sensing equal concentrations : and the rule will guide them straight down the odour trail . |
| 21 | He insisted it was simple — go in that direction and plant the flags at regular intervals . |
| 22 | FACING TWO WAYS : Torvill and Dean go in separate directions after setting the ice alight in their spectacular shows ( below ) — home to their own partners , husband Phil in Jayne 's case ( inset top left ) and wife Isabelle in Chris 's ( top right ) |
| 23 | Settlement cracks go in various directions and result in a depression that collects water . |
| 24 | Although stylistics is chiefly interested in encoding variants , it is in the nature of language , as a multicoding system , that the many-one mappings go in both directions : |
| 25 | Davide , after returning from America , had lost his bump of locality for his native place ; when the plan showed a turning one way , he missed it , or found he wanted to walk back where he had come from , or go in another direction altogether . |
| 26 | Their heads and body angles even point in different directions . ’ |
| 27 | Answer : it is a mistake to ask such questions , because they lead you into the murky borderland between history and myth , where the evidence is fragmentary and the fragments point in different directions . |
| 28 | The arrows point in different directions as the field of information is enlarged at all parts of its boundary . |
| 29 | They no longer look vertical , but slant in opposite directions . |
| 30 | Wildebeest eat grass , and grass grows after rain ; they can sense where rain is falling by using their eyes and ears ( but not their noses ) : they then migrate in that direction . |