Example sentences of "go in the opposite " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hips going in the opposite direction to the feet , ending in Ethel standing on one leg like a stork the other leg wrapped round Sid 's waist and he bending over backwards with his head touching the floor . |
| 2 | The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | We 'd gone miles , then saw your tracks going in the opposite direction , so we doubled back . ’ |
| 4 | He was walking very rapidly , far faster than Shiva was going in the opposite direction , from a building with long windows and white-uniformed men and girls behind them that looked like a lab , towards the main block . |
| 5 | ‘ Going in the opposite direction , but I have n't heard any lately . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't see so many people going in the opposite direction now , so I hope that 's a sign that we 've persuaded a few of them to stay in town and watch their local team . ’ |
| 7 | In Philadelphia , Thom Bell was going in the opposite direction , enveloping a romantic vocal group called the Delfonics in a jacuzzi of French horns , flugelhorns , flutes , strings , harps , tinkerbell glockenspiels and even Indian sitars . |
| 8 | Going in the opposite direction was a bomb sight which would ultimately end up on the Hampden cockpit project at East Kirkby . |
| 9 | Now those are arteries , that 's the pulmonary artery but it 's coming back to the heart okay , that 's the only time you 're going to find the rule reversed , arteries leave the heart , veins come back to the heart , and the only time that rule is reversed is when you 're linking the heart and the lungs through the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery , however , they are still carrying , the arteries are still carrying oxygen charged blood , yes , because it 's come fresh from the lungs so it 's still carrying nice red lovely oxygenated blood , yes , even though it 's coming back into the heart , that is because it 's come fresh from the lungs and the vein although it 's going in the opposite direction the way you normally expect it , is still carrying the old rotten , you know , used up blood , because it 's going back to the lungs to be recharged , do you understand it alright ? |
| 10 | And going in the opposite direction — falling — is like switching gravity off . ’ |
| 11 | There was one bad moment , when he met a car going in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 13 | She was going in the opposite direction this time . |
| 14 | We have been successful in going in the opposite direction — in increasing the number of jobs and in making British industry more competitive in the past 10 years . |
| 15 | At a time when household formation rates suggest we should be going in the opposite direction , simply to stand still . |
| 16 | Bulmers and the thousands of farmers who supply them with fruit are hoping that although the apples will continue to obey the law of gravity , profits and sales will keep going in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | But we 've not wilfully put at risk services or jobs by risking capping by going in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | As with the peak-hours curve , it tended to go in the opposite direction to TV . |
| 19 | White may be a very good player and Wilko could have ‘ fancied him ’ , but Rocky should not have been allowed to go in the opposite direction , and as for the ‘ Cantona thing ’ I think that decision will haunt Wilkinson to the grave . |
| 20 | ‘ To catch it they would need to go in the opposite direction first to Thornaby station , where parking is limited . |
| 21 | Once a note is drawn higher than that middle line the tails start to go in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | We can contrast the Government 's approach with Labour 's approach , which goes in the opposite direction , once again leading industry and the public as lambs to the militant trade unionist slaughter . |
| 23 | Some jews went in the opposite direction by expropriating a territory in Palestine ( on the grounds of an historical occupation ) to substantiate their claim to being a nation . |
| 24 | Total employment during the quarter rose 700 , but operating expenses went in the opposite direction from cost of sales , 30.3% of revenues compared with 32.5% in the year-ago quarter , as the company continued the remorseless cost-cutting drive . |
| 25 | There was a slight seasonal effect of gradually declining response to models , but this could not have biased the results because the response to crest accentuation went in the opposite direction , increasing significantly between early ( small crests ) presentations and the first accentuated crest presentations . |
| 26 | Total employment during the quarter rose 700 , but operating expenses went in the opposite direction from cost of sales , 30.3% of revenues compared with 32.5% in the year-ago quarter , as the company continued the remorseless cost-cutting drive . |
| 27 | She went in the opposite direction from the rock drawings , her planned destination when she had first conceived her scheme . |
| 28 | The two men went in the opposite direction . |
| 29 | The Kinnock conversion has gone in the opposite direction : away from ideology , towards ‘ realism ’ . |
| 30 | This country has so far gone in the opposite direction . |