Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] towards the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 2 | He told them briefly what had happened and , satisfied that they had packed everything , led them out towards the Galilee Gate . |
| 3 | To begin with er I could n't find the light switch because my , my gaze was directed er at the people in the bed but then er I asked the man in the bed , where was the light switch and er he helped me back towards the area where the switch was and we eventually succeeded in getting the light on . |
| 4 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 5 | Edward moved forward , moved her back towards the bed , but Hannele sidestepped , turning him around instead . |
| 6 | I steer her back towards the motel building , frog-marching her into Room 206 . |
| 7 | He came up off the floor in one swift , powerful lunge , slamming the full force of his body into Boisson and driving him back towards the dungeon before the man could gather himself for another swing . |
| 8 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 9 | About to lead them back towards the stables , he lowered his voice and said to Luke , ‘ Did you get it ? ’ |
| 10 | Then , making their apologies to the professor and his wife , he was whisking her off towards the dance-floor . |
| 11 | The terrified Frankie skidded round the corner wall of the end house and raced as fast as his legs would carry him down towards the walkway gate . |
| 12 | Total panic clenching her insides , her mind squirrelling uselessly , she allowed Leo to urge her back towards the shop . |
| 13 | It 's a throw-in to David of Blackburn , down the right hand side , that one 's headed on by Stewart , the clearance from , is picked up by David who nipped in there ahead of and now here 's once more down the inside left channel , pushing it up towards the edge of the penalty area where holds it up well , they 're working well at the moment down that left hand side as gets it across , a snatched header comes in and it 's pushed behind by Chris for a corner kick , and we 're at the midway point of the second half , with Shrewsbury leading three two , Alan will describe it for you . |
| 14 | This ensures that , if you suddenly pull the throttle stick hard back and drop the model onto the ground very hard , the blades will still be lifting and not pushing themselves down towards the tailboom . |
| 15 | The two sailors took Paddy by his elbows , pulling him back towards the warehouse . |
| 16 | The cycle of death leads us on towards the urban landscape that follows . |
| 17 | He put an arm round my shoulder and walked me back towards the church door . |
| 18 | Taking the bag and holding it up towards the window , Bodie peered at the two slugs . |
| 19 | Smoothly , he worked the action of the Winchester , and swung it up towards the centre of the windscreen . |
| 20 | The hand pulled me up towards the ceiling . |
| 21 | Street converted the penalty for the third , before Malshanger pulled one back towards the end . |
| 22 | And slowly , luring him with the chocolate wrapping , he led him back towards the feeding-place . |
| 23 | Corbett wanted to leave Kinghorn quickly before the captain or Alexander began to question him , so , once he had finished his meal , he went to the stable and , saddling the garron , led him out towards the main gate . |
| 24 | No matter how carefully he sliced each shovelful in an arc out on the wind , there were certain unpredictable gusts that lifted the grains and blew them back towards the tractor so that by evening his clothes were filthy with lime , his face and hands as white as chalk , accentuating the inflamed red round his eyes . |
| 25 | In an instant he had vaulted over the side of their car and had begun swinging himself along towards the head of the train and the car occupied by Lord Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan . |
| 26 | Leo ! ’ she exclaimed in shock as he caught hold of her and manoeuvred her back towards the fork . |
| 27 | She heard the door close behind her , but not before the sound of laughter had followed her down towards the lift . |
| 28 | So , take your fingers from the outside and move them in towards the nose and round so that you do n't stretch the skin even more . |
| 29 | Those luggers , as Denholm said , are hopeless windward sailors but in this case it will be directly astern of them and carry them down towards the Kásos Strait to the east of the easternmost tip of Crete . ’ |
| 30 | But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . |