Example sentences of "pointed [prep] the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | The arrow pointed in the right direction , but ten feet past it , without the compass , which way was north ? |
| 3 | Tip is a firm believer in fate , and in 1961 the finger pointed in the right direction for him . |
| 4 | She rubbed her eyes with one hand and pointed in the vague direction of the bathroom with the other . |
| 5 | The taller of the two took his weight off his rake and pointed in the other direction . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The flowering of Russian opera and ballet pointed in the same direction . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |