Example sentences of "and [verb] towards the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 2 | He turned and tottered towards the office doors . |
| 3 | Harry , galvanized by the words , sprang from his seat and lunged towards the door , but too late : an impenetrable barrier of glass and metal separated him from his quarry . |
| 4 | He made a perfect landing and taxied towards the hangars where half a dozen men waited in Luftwaffe overalls . |
| 5 | Ace , holstering her gun , brushed past her and loped towards the doorway . |
| 6 | On this hypothesis the spits both start from their respective headlands and converge towards the centre of the bay . |
| 7 | Howling a fervent execrating battlecry , Bjortson broke from the pack of cadets and sprinted towards the alien prisoner . |
| 8 | He had never forgotten the outraged eloquence of the frustrated lady as she had hitched up her pants and departed towards the town . |
| 9 | Significantly , it was also agreed that the two leaders would jointly tour the violence-affected areas , and that structures would be set up to convey the strategy to the grass-roots level , and to work towards the rehabilitation of the stricken communities . |
| 10 | Each one of those millions of evolutionary changes by means of which the single cell multiplied and diversified into the vast complexity of all living things , was either ‘ good ’ , and contributing towards the development of the human being of today , or ‘ not good ’ and was therefore continuing the development of what was , or would become , a non-human species , or lost to evolution by bringing about the extinction of a species . |
| 11 | I excused myself from Mr Cardinal and moved towards the doors . |
| 12 | A quick flick of a comb through her hair — there was no hat to accessorise this dress — she reached for the crocodile clutch bag and moved towards the doorway for Arlene to give her a quick check before she stepped out onto the catwalk again . |
| 13 | Mother looked at them , shook her head and sighed , then advising Etty to rinse herself with the warm water , she turned , stood up , and moved towards the door , unaware that her apron-strings were entangled with a handle of the zinc-tub … |
| 14 | He exposed himself in a railway carriage and moved towards the victim , inviting her to have connections with him . |
| 15 | Uncertainly Jean-Paul picked up his jacket and moved towards the door . |
| 16 | Hari straightened her shawl with trembling fingers and moved towards the door . |
| 17 | Craig shook his brother off easily and moved towards the fireplace . |
| 18 | Perhaps it is time we placed less emphasis on our role as individual therapists teaching specialist skills , and moved towards the position of educators and organizers of self-help services . |
| 19 | Sabrina shrugged and moved towards the youth . |
| 20 | He stood up and moved towards the door . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll fix it up , ’ he said , and moved towards the door . |
| 22 | Donna got to her feet , still keeping low , and moved towards the small round window close to the front door in the hall . |
| 23 | She got up and moved towards the door . |
| 24 | Charles switched off his torch with a dull click and moved towards the half-open door . |
| 25 | I asked as we picked up our overnight bags and moved towards the exit . |
| 26 | He rose , and moved towards the door . |
| 27 | " Too ghastly , I quite agree , Aunt Tossie put the empty plate back in front of Nicandra and moved towards the sideboard in a predestined kind of way . |
| 28 | As Harry watched , he slipped the book into his pocket , rose and moved towards the door . |
| 29 | He shrugged himself upright and moved towards the door . |
| 30 | Melissa stood up and moved towards the door . |