Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , as she was heading towards the gate ( thus walking in the direction opposite to that which Agnes was to take somewhat later , followed by the gaze of her unfortunate schoolfriend ) , the secretary turned , smiled and lifted her arm out in the air in an unexpected gesture , easy and flowing . |
| 2 | Rose said she 'd seen her walking in the direction of the milking sheds , and with a little nod Ellie went out into the grounds . |
| 3 | However , as I start walking in the direction of the lake he merely steps into stride . |
| 4 | I realized that the odd muffled mumbling from the direction of my co-star before our first entrance was the sentence on the business-card . |
| 5 | ‘ Then how do you account for a statement by a witness who claims that you passed him in your van , driving in the direction of Penzance , at about 11.45 that night ? ’ |
| 6 | It shows two men wearing gloves walking from the direction of the first explosion . |
| 7 | A distinction has thus emerged between administrative and political roles , with appointed servants of the state acting under the direction of elected politicians and ultimately answerable to the people . |
| 8 | Her Black Sea fleet had by this time been destroyed , the allies had landed not only in the Crimea but also at Nikolaev to the west and Novorossiisk to the east , and the Turks retained a position at Sukhumi which gave them the chance of counter-attacking in the direction of Tiflis . |
| 9 | The House of Lords is tending in the direction of becoming a standing revision committee of the Commons . |
| 10 | associating feminism with the liberating traditions of Western thought , from Locke and Rousseau to Marx and Engels , tending in the direction of greater equality , shared decision-making and justice . |
| 11 | The only systematic disentanglement from corporatist theorizing and policy analysis of the administrative component was by R. E. Pahl and J. T. Winkler , writing at a time when it seemed that Britain had been developing in the direction of corporatism for the previous fifteen years and was experiencing sectoral planning , planning agreements and statutory or voluntary controls over prices , profit margins , dividends , wages , rents and the movement of capital . |
| 12 | Fourth , that such avant-garde formations , developing specific and distanced styles within the metropolis , at once reflect and compose kinds of consciousness and practice which become increasingly relevant to a social order itself developing in the directions of metropolitan and international significance beyond the nation-state and its provinces , and of a correspondingly high cultural mobility ( cf. the relations between the Paris of 1890–1930 and the New York of 1940–70 ) . |
| 13 | There were a few cows in the field and they were wandering in the direction of the sniper 's position . |
| 14 | No doubt there was something comic in the situation and I suppose that was what set my mind wandering in the direction of Farmer Bailes ' dog , Shep . |
| 15 | Had anyone been looking in the direction of Miss Danziger they would have observed a faint smile gathering at the corners of her mouth and fading as quickly as it formed . |
| 16 | I sat holding the mug , looking in the direction from which I had walked . |
| 17 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 18 | Looking in the direction indicated , George saw a smithy , with the blacksmith and his striker hard at work . |
| 19 | His head he was keeping averted , looking in the direction of the drift , at the wall of cluster pines with their black needles and their green cones . |
| 20 | He went out for a few moments and stood on the steps between the Greek pillars , looking in the direction of the Residency for any sign of movement . |
| 21 | They continued to feed , or stared out on the Zoo not looking in the direction of Minch at all ; while Creggan was so busy staring at Minch in delight and pleasure that he did not notice behind him , in the next-door cage , Slorne stare for the moment at Minch and then swing round and silently resume her vigil at the back top of her cage , looking at the trees and sky . |
| 22 | Tim was lying on the sand , looking in the direction the man had gone . |
| 23 | ‘ Uncle Stephen can help too ! ’ she added , looking in the direction of her brother who smiled wryly , a little out of it . |
| 24 | In fact I think the people who are looking in the direction of change in terms of parent governors and P T As etcetera are , I think looking in the wrong direction . |
| 25 | Rising from this homely disorder is ‘ the Cherry House ’ — according to the directions supplied , ‘ a big , old , red hippie building ’ . |
| 26 | Cells in Vl , in contrast , always responded according to the direction of movement of the component gratings . |
| 27 | Changes in mortality rates will result in either a decrease or increase in prevalence according to the direction of change in mortality . |
| 28 | Advice to drivers is to act according to the direction in which the wheels of the car are pointing , not trusting the signal given . |
| 29 | So we can deduce what the field of vision of our globular-eyed trilobite was , by looking at the directions in which all the lenses face . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're up in the air at the moment , ’ Bono concludes a line of conversation where we 're wondering about the direction and attitude of new music ( But can you trust it ? ) especially those current wagon hoppers such as Killing Joke ( J'accuse ! ) . |