Example sentences of "[verb] her towards the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes ! ’ she insisted , and to her utter alarm and astonishment he caught her arm and pulled her towards the nearby barn . |
| 4 | Penry put his arm round her to shepherd her towards the moving row of taxis . |
| 5 | Ted had pulled Katherine away , was navigating her towards the other end of the room . |
| 6 | Pulling the door open further , Rune waved her towards the outer room and the telephone . |
| 7 | Then he took Victoria 's hand and led her towards the strange woman . |
| 8 | As he led her towards the wood-and-thatch building by the roadside , Isabel contemplated another night in fitzAlan 's company . |
| 9 | As the sow came at him he allowed her to run her head into the bin then , bent double , he began to back her towards the open door . |
| 10 | Sonia Boyce ( born 1962 , London ) is a far more skilful artist : but her very accomplishment inclines her towards the illustrational and sentimental . |
| 11 | Scooping her up in his arms , he carried her towards the front door , easily unlatched it , flicked a switch , kicked the door shut behind him , and carried her into the bedroom . |
| 12 | ‘ But I am , ’ he asserted with a grin , steering her towards the long metallic midnight-blue convertible parked a little way along the road . |
| 13 | He moved with incredible speed , seizing her by the shoulders and propelling her towards the closed door , a hard violence etching the bones of his face into a mask that would have just done justice to a Viking warrior at his most rapacious . |