Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thunder rolled over and round them from every direction so that Trent had the sense of being in the interior of an enormous drum on which giants beat from all sides . |
| 2 | Furthermore , ’ he went on , drawing me in the direction of pool Valley , ‘ one is insistently aware that all of these actors are the meanest of impostors . |
| 3 | Terry Dicks , not so well known , was crushing beer cans and tossing them in the direction of France . |
| 4 | He had begun to coax her in the direction of her room now , the drinks tray left forgotten on the counter-top , and she went along helplessly , carried by the tide of his will and of her own incurable need to be with him . |
| 5 | In his view , therefore , the ‘ crisis ’ facing capitalism is the result of an independent technology driving it in a direction which runs counter to the declared ideology of the technostructure who control it . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're pushing me in the direction of flattery again , ’ he said softly . |
| 7 | As he shouted his order he spurred the horse forward suddenly the front ranks of the coolies , scattering them in the direction of the rubber groves . |
| 8 | A throw forward occurs when a player carrying the ball throws or passes it in the direction of his opponents ' dead-ball line ’ . |
| 9 | He was bigger than I and he grabbed me by my Sidcot collar and hauled me in the direction of the CFI 's office , I did not even have time to shake off my parachute before we burst into the " Holiest of Holies " . |
| 10 | It 's pulling it against the direction we 're measuring S |
| 11 | They are leading us in the direction of a central truth about life on Earth , the truth that I alluded to in my opening paragraph about willow seeds . |
| 12 | But it will prove to be a necessary and worthwhile one if it leads us in the direction of a less doctrinaire and therefore more properly educational form of antiracism . |
| 13 | He said that he will be continuing with Mary 's work of dealing with residents ' worries and complaints — ‘ pointing them in the direction of the right person to help them ’ — and assisting them with official forms , etc . |
| 14 | But getting a job after years spent bringing up a family is n't necessarily an end in itself For many women , it 's all part of changing their lives and pointing them in the direction they want to go in-of being in charge of their own destiny . |
| 15 | Future Perfect aims to help people approaching or over the age of 50 deal with the transition from their main career by pointing them in the direction of new opportunities . |
| 16 | The Holiday Property Bond aims to point you in the direction of a vacation . |
| 17 | On the marker posts that you see , the next time you , you travel past them at ninety miles an hour if you get time to see them , there is actually , a picture of the telephone headset and a number under that headset there will be an arrow pointing you in the direction of the nearest emergency telephone . |
| 18 | A running calendar is simply a tool to guide you in the direction you want to go . |
| 19 | She followed him in the direction of the flight deck . |
| 20 | All she needed was someone to accept her cheque and issue a receipt , but there was no sign to point her in the direction of the accounts department , and the staff of Woodline Design were conspicuously absent . |
| 21 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 22 | Erm , but I personally think there 's a lot of other things that the doctors could be offering , er , pointing us in the direction of er relaxation techniques and , all sorts of things . |
| 23 | During the summer and early autumn she helped me with Government aid and guided me in the direction of private aid . |
| 24 | Putting a companionable arm round her shoulders that made her shiver with awareness , he urged her in the direction of the village . |
| 25 | Fred Titmus bowled the right sort of ball and I smashed it in the direction of the pavilion . |
| 26 | Hooks of meat , barrows of vegetables , trays of pies , urns of tea passed him in every direction . |
| 27 | I suspect Fender would say the market is just not there , and point you in the direction of their Custom Shop , who would build whatever you wanted ( phone Tom Nolan on : 071 602 6351 ) . |
| 28 | Smallfry was smiling sweetly as she reached for Frankie 's sleeve and eased him in the direction of the door . |
| 29 | He slipped out and went to his tent , got his revolver , and emptied it in the direction of Woolley 's tent . |
| 30 | ‘ Could you point me in the direction of a bathroom please ? ’ |