Example sentences of "[verb] off towards [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenna snapped , spinning away and storming off towards the house . |
| 2 | Noel Cooper was lifted aboard : he had seen nothing of Norman Teacher since the Lt-Cmdr swam off towards the shore . |
| 3 | There 's no specific area that I can lay my finger on to explain why West Indian kids underachieve … what is inevitable is that a lot of West Indian children particularly the bright ones will do fairly well up to either the beginning or the middle of the fourth year , and for some peculiar reason their progress will fall off towards the end of the fifth year . |
| 4 | The doors slammed shut and the grey van drove off towards the exit , rejoining the northward rush of motorway traffic . |
| 5 | The car drove off towards the seafront , the same direction in which the woman 's attackers fled . |
| 6 | The railway veered off towards the mine . |
| 7 | It twisted into an origami boat and sailed off towards a sewer inlet . |
| 8 | The traveller strolled off towards the juggernaut . |
| 9 | Another rustle followed before a glossy blackbird hopped out and made off towards the parkland . |
| 10 | Arm in arm they made off towards the kitchen-garden . |
| 11 | Satisfied , Felicity loped off towards the loo . |
| 12 | I could n't wait to zoom off towards the seacat to go to France , but in 5 hours I would be . |
| 13 | He stalked off towards the camp 's edge where a huge band of his brothers waited . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , he shuffled off towards the tube station and Chancery Lane . |
| 15 | Descending the last few stairs , she turned on her elegantly shod heel , and walked off towards the kitchen . |
| 16 | As we walked off towards the car park , a woman 's voice shouted my name . |
| 17 | Taking his towelling bath robe out of his suitcase and one of the rugs from the back of the car , they set off towards the cliff . |
| 18 | However , this began to trail off towards the end of June due to outside distractions — Wimbledon tennis and International cricket . |
| 19 | Above Thwaite the Pennine Way branches off towards the right , behind the intake wall , while a signpost to the left reads " Bridleway to Keld " . |
| 20 | Without further ado , he started off towards the school buildings . |
| 21 | Dressed in silk and ablaze with jewellery , apparently to prove that Donna 's inheritance was no myth , Mavis Bricknell stumbled off towards the toilet room at the dome car 's entrance saying she must repair the ravages to her face , and presently she came back , screaming loudly . |
| 22 | He had watched all four go off towards the tower with the rain beating down on them . |
| 23 | Now I 'm stuck , she thought in panic , as they sped off towards the horizon . |
| 24 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 25 | Before either of his listeners could reply to these curt instructions , fitzAlan shoved his reins into the other man 's hands and strode off towards the forebuilding without another word . |
| 26 | She tucked in her brown silk blouse , tossed her red hair free and strode off towards the editor 's office , Mitch behind her admiring her slender figure and keeping his thoughts strictly to himself . |
| 27 | He flipped just one of the bolts in a casual way and strode off towards the farmhouse across the Paddock . |
| 28 | She watched as he walked through the branches of the apple tree and strode off towards the house . |
| 29 | She seemed to be more pleased with that , and flashing me a grin from over her shoulder went off towards the Clubhouse entrance . |
| 30 | The rain at this end of the island tends to die off towards the end of March , but it has certainly damaged pitches including that at the Government Stadium , which Paterson reckoned would be deemed unplayable by most clubs in Scotland . |