Example sentences of "towards us from the " in BNC.

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1 As he did this a Maltese feller started striding slowly but purposefully towards us from the back of the club .
2 There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist .
3 It came rolling towards us from the west .
4 The island was spread in front of me , outrigger canoes paddling towards us from the silver beaches lined with tall , bending palm trees and feathery casuarinas , while , behind , the green volcanic mountains rose until they seemed to meet the sky .
5 I date the present coldness of Turkey towards us from the expulsion of the Axis from North Africa .
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