Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] towards the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a simple , but amusing , sequence with a stick-man player flicking the ball up , chesting it down , etc , before shooting/heading it towards the unseen net — a ‘ goal ’ or ‘ saved ’ caption then appears . |
| 2 | The hound wakes , growls , shakes itself , and with a show of haste begins to pull us towards the four corners of the great morning . |
| 3 | The mathematician propelled himself towards the prone figure some yards away . |
| 4 | When Laura complained at breaktime that Peter had done the same again , pushing her towards the broken tiles which had recently been blown off the junior hall roof , Janice felt that Peter needed to be shown that what he had done was dangerous and unacceptable . |
| 5 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 6 | I snatched my miniature of whisky and lifted it towards the raised glasses at home , before stepping outside to watch those stars to the left of Polaris which would be blinking over Manchester . |
| 7 | If you want to impress your friends , you can nonchalantly steer them towards the small plaque on the side of the bonnet . |
| 8 | But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary . |
| 9 | He did not , as he said on 9 December 1958 , when as owner of Be Careful he spoke at the Gimcrack dinner , object to bookmakers paying something towards the racing industry 's expenses . |
| 10 | Padding the streets and prying into the window of a man 's life , and the trail turned him towards the second-floor flat of Mrs Angela Holly ( née Wells ) , two miles from the home of her former husband and parents-in-law . |
| 11 | One frail , thin hand went up to pull at his wispy grey goatee , the other moved slightly on the staff , inclining it towards the distant line of men . |
| 12 | The shepherds gather their flocks and drive them towards the neighbouring woods in the hope of saving them . |
| 13 | It all swung him towards the burning reality of Kee . |
| 14 | With a heavy heart , Robert followed her towards the smooth , mysterious features of the house , whose windows , on this side , he could now see , were blacked out from the inside . |
| 15 | And if he 'd come across any other married woman who kept on buying her husband horses and dogs and fishing tackle and pointing him towards the open countryside while she stayed in town , then he 'd have known exactly what to think . |
| 16 | The ultimate ‘ aim ’ of beauty , if there can be said to be such a thing , is to point us towards the spiritual realm . |
| 17 | They say if they are barred from Skinnergate and High Row in Darlington it will force them towards the hazardous roundabouts on the inner ring road . |
| 18 | I feel sure he will guide you towards the right medical channel and explain what pica is all about . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes ! ’ she insisted , and to her utter alarm and astonishment he caught her arm and pulled her towards the nearby barn . |
| 20 | Penry put his arm round her to shepherd her towards the moving row of taxis . |
| 21 | Ted had pulled Katherine away , was navigating her towards the other end of the room . |
| 22 | Pulling the door open further , Rune waved her towards the outer room and the telephone . |
| 23 | Maisie grabbed his arm and steered him towards the next gallery . |
| 24 | But I 'm actually using more and more of this cream , as I realize that er if you direct it towards the right part of the body in the right people , |
| 25 | Can I take it towards the wrong one ? |
| 26 | Caroline , in her Souvenirs intimes , remarks that ‘ Fëlicitë and her parrot really lived ’ and directs us towards the first Trouville parrot , that of Captain Barbey , as the true ancestor of Loulou . |
| 27 | in another review of the criminal statistics , F. H. McClintock and N. H. Avison also direct us towards the relative stability in recorded crime levels between 1900 and 1914 which , they suggest , ‘ might be described as the stable but carefree Edwardian era ’ . |
| 28 | Then he took Victoria 's hand and led her towards the strange woman . |
| 29 | As he led her towards the wood-and-thatch building by the roadside , Isabel contemplated another night in fitzAlan 's company . |
| 30 | In Zimbabwe today , education must fundamentally orient itself towards the revolutionary transformation now taking place in many spheres of our society . |