Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the direction [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an early church , dating from the ninth-century , which was rebuilt under the direction of San Carlo Borromeo . |
| 2 | ‘ I was getting a bit discouraged with the direction of the people I was working with on ‘ Black Sheets Of Rain' , ’ confides Bob . |
| 3 | Students have to be willing to work under the direction of the lecturer . |
| 4 | Rose said she 'd seen her walking in the direction of the milking sheds , and with a little nod Ellie went out into the grounds . |
| 5 | However , as I start walking in the direction of the lake he merely steps into stride . |
| 6 | From the angle at which the bullet had penetrated the keg it had to have come from the direction of the shed . |
| 7 | To locate it , begin at Beta Cygni and then identify 2 Cygni ( 4.9 ) which lies in the direction of Vega . |
| 8 | First identify Alpha Apodis , which lies in the direction of a line through Alpha Centauri and Alpha Circini . |
| 9 | The final difference lies in the direction of the hammers . |
| 10 | Robert , Herluin , Hugh and the stranger departed in the direction of the abbot 's lodging , where Radulfus had already come out to greet them . |
| 11 | I realized that the odd muffled mumbling from the direction of my co-star before our first entrance was the sentence on the business-card . |
| 12 | A strange object or sound will result in the ears being fully pricked in the direction of the stimulus , in order to pick up any relevant sounds . |
| 13 | In the nineteenth century , Beethoven and especially Wagner moved in the direction of the expansion of dissonance . |
| 14 | Doreen and Silas were still where she had left them , making two shadowy figures in the moonlight , and , even as she watched , they moved in the direction of the road that led towards the highway . |
| 15 | The trees shook , even the ground beneath me shook , as I suddenly realised that a salvo of heavy shells was passing over at tree height , and everyone — including the prisoners — scattered in the direction of the dug-outs ; the salvo hit the ground a short distance away with an almighty roar , the explosions throwing debris over a wide area . |
| 16 | Meredith waved goodbye and watched her set off back the way they had come in the direction of Pook 's stables . |
| 17 | He fled in the direction of Aberystwyth Rugby Club . |
| 18 | She crouched down , holding her breath , and peered in the direction of the sound . |
| 19 | The Moi immediately climbed other trees and peered in the direction of his finger ; then they began chattering excitedly to Devraux in their own language . |
| 20 | ‘ Hope he 's had the sense to go inside , ’ he mumbled and he headed in the direction of home . |
| 21 | He flung it open and shouted in the direction of the offending instrument . |
| 22 | ‘ Then how do you account for a statement by a witness who claims that you passed him in your van , driving in the direction of Penzance , at about 11.45 that night ? ’ |
| 23 | It shows two men wearing gloves walking from the direction of the first explosion . |
| 24 | It had thrown up some very challenging cross-references in its time , and she was at the moment pursuing a connection between the nature of quattrocento pigmentation and lichenology as a method of dating the antiquity of landscape : a gratifyingly pointless and therefore pure pursuit , which enabled her mind to wander in the direction of Italy and to hover about the abstraction of a particular shade of green-blue which she had noted in many a painted Italian scene as well as in the lichens of ancient English woodland . |
| 25 | It was crucial that Soviet leaders came to trust non-Marxist and not necessarily pro-Soviet Finnish political forces to abide by the military provisions of the 1948 Finnish-Soviet Friendship and Cooperation Treaty which met Soviet security needs in the direction of Finland comprehensively and permitted the expression of the Finnish brand of neutrality . |
| 26 | He was examining the damage to the Peugeot , and did n't even glance in the direction of the departing car . |
| 27 | In wave terms this corresponds to the direction in which the oscillations take place . |
| 28 | set up a vision group to work on the direction of future ecumenical interaction in communication ; |
| 29 | The LTE objected to the direction on the ground that it failed to have regard to the LTE 's financial duty under section 7(3) to break even so far as is practicable . |
| 30 | The sign of M depends on the convention adopted for the direction of currents in the two loops . |