Example sentences of "pointed [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Station Chief pointed between the trousered legs and the shoes of the Greek police and security officials .
2 She pointed towards the far corner of the walled garden .
3 Britain 's transport network pointed towards the colonial past , the CBI declared : it had to be redirected to face the European future .
4 Ace half turned back to the shuttle , pointed towards the sprouting hemisphere ( like chunks of cheddar stuck all over half a grapefruit , she thought ) , and aimed the suit towards the shape that looked like the nose of an asteroid cruncher .
5 The Weasel pointed towards the burning city .
6 ‘ Well — ’ The dung-collector turned on the top step of the church and pointed towards the frozen cemetery .
7 The officer pointed towards the Hungarian frontier post and descended upon the next vehicle in the queue .
8 The arm spines are thin and pointed with the ventralmost becoming elongated up to three times the length of the others and developing a rugose multipointed crown .
9 She pointed up the sloping corridor .
10 He pointed into the faint moonlight on the far side of the glade and Tallis felt a moment 's shock as she saw what was happening there .
11 Tagan pointed into the darkening hills , and Riven followed his finger .
12 If there was six foot four of muscle , tensed and angry in the last minutes of its life , and your only protection was some lunatic hoodlum standing to one side with a loaded pistol pointed in the general direction of the fray , would you leap in there ?
13 The arrow pointed in the right direction , but ten feet past it , without the compass , which way was north ?
14 Tip is a firm believer in fate , and in 1961 the finger pointed in the right direction for him .
15 She rubbed her eyes with one hand and pointed in the vague direction of the bathroom with the other .
16 The taller of the two took his weight off his rake and pointed in the other direction .
17 Paul-Henri Spaak even wrote a personal letter to the British prime minister , Anthony Eden , which , in appealing for discussions within WEU , pointed in the same direction .
18 The flowering of Russian opera and ballet pointed in the same direction .
19 You had this lump of rock that you dangled from a thread and people discovered that it always pointed in the same direction , so if you were on board , a ship for the first time people were able to travel in a ship without having to hug a coast all the way across or navigate to where they could see .
20 Most of our problems were due to weather and poorly functioning equipment : an extended-range Loran that never worked , an ADF that pointed in the wrong direction and a kaput old-fashioned venturi altitude indicator .
21 He pointed to the archaic foppery for Leon 's benefit .
22 A friendly Asian face looked through at us , gave us our tickets , and pointed to the black double doors further in .
23 Lord James said the funding would grow in subsequent years , and pointed to the constructive support and welcome the policy had received .
24 He pointed to the nine beer kegs standing in the centre of the room .
25 Almost 25,000 balls has he sent down in Test cricket , and although Sir Richard Hadlee , in an otherwise gracious radio tribute immediately after the 400th wicket had been bagged , pointed to the greater number of Tests and deliveries needed by the Indian , it is by assessing the amount of support from the other end over the years that we gain a full picture of Kapil 's place in history : he has carried India 's bowling almost throughout his career .
26 Klift pointed to the far corner .
27 She pointed to the far side of the amber .
28 Cranston touched him on the arm and pointed to the far corner , just past the huge gateway .
29 While too much emphasis should not be placed upon it , intelligence pointed to the offensive capacity of North Korea being strengthened .
30 We have never had a more dangerous enemy than the one who is lying out there ’ — and he pointed to the great marsh that was all round us .
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