Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun sg] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having secured seats on the saloon deck we went to look about us , and saw another large flock of sheep being driven down the quay towards our steamer . |
| 2 | Donna joined it , filing past the barriers , showing her ticket and heading down the platform towards the First Class carriages . |
| 3 | Watching his mother ride down the valley towards Cherry Tree Farm , George felt a tide of resentment rising against his father . |
| 4 | She glanced down the valley towards Rocamar . |
| 5 | He wound his way through us as we sat fascinated at the sight as Geordie tiptoed down the beach towards the sea , his top part a deep tan , from the waist down a dirty white colour . |
| 6 | But by then there was another sexbox cruising down the floor towards us , and I was too fuddled and clogged to argue . |
| 7 | Further down the hillside towards La Paz , another women 's group is meeting in the early afternoon . |
| 8 | Wycliffe turned down the alley towards the Incident Room . |
| 9 | Coming down the passage towards her was Cobalt . |
| 10 | She marched down the passage towards the staircase . |
| 11 | Several rabbits were already running down the field towards a distant hedge dappled white with great patches of maybloom . |
| 12 | As he stood watching Massingham looked up , caught his eye , and moved down the nave towards him . |
| 13 | Benjamin shouted at Santerre now walking down the nave towards us . |
| 14 | Philip saw him go down the village towards the church . |
| 15 | Rosten pointed down the passageway towards the open ground in front of the old inn and muttered something Ben could n't quite make out . |
| 16 | With enough computational skill , a contoured ‘ stained-glass ’ window in a church , say , could show a whole sequence of devotional images as someone walked down the aisle towards it . |
| 17 | The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them . |
| 18 | She turned , joining the line of boarding passengers , holding out her pass to the tiny Han stewardess , then moved down the aisle towards her seat . |
| 19 | Sue walked down the aisle towards the restroom . |
| 20 | He proceeded down the aisle towards the fallen cross , that now lay in front of the altar , before stopping over the dead German officer and continuing until he came face to face with Tommy , who was still holding a pistol pointing straight at his heart . |
| 21 | Glancing sideways I saw something strange , something anomalous : a girl , a plump little bobbysoxer , edging tremulously down the bar towards me . |
| 22 | Standing on the brake-van verandah , he looked down the line towards the signal box . |
| 23 | Rickie was literally dancing in circles around me as I walked down the dock towards his sister , but then he paused in his frenetic progress to light one cigarette from the stump of another , and I wondered just what perverted fate decreed that such a boy should receive a legacy of six million dollars . |
| 24 | Just occasionally , she caught sight of the cooking pots bustling down the wagon towards Gabriel and pinning him in a corner , and then she would laugh and heave them back to the top of the cart . |
| 25 | They drank a few refreshing mouthfuls before a slender blonde with high-heeled shoes and bright-blue eyelids swayed down the room towards them . |
| 26 | He was watching Jack and Floss go down the ride towards the feeding-ground . |
| 27 | Philip ran down the ride towards the field , shouting for Lee . |
| 28 | The fingerboard is ebony , with exquisite maple leaf inlays lacking nothing in detail as they appear to drift down the neck towards the body . |
| 29 | He pulled open his door and hurried down the landing towards the bathroom . |
| 30 | His voice was the merest whisper as he stared down the landing towards a particular door , his mind imagining the two people behind it ; two people he resented beyond words . |