Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] off towards the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another rustle followed before a glossy blackbird hopped out and made off towards the parkland . |
| 2 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 3 | Jenna snapped , spinning away and storming off towards the house . |
| 4 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |
| 5 | And then with a final glance to either side he turned and walked off towards the main gate . |
| 6 | Descending the last few stairs , she turned on her elegantly shod heel , and walked off towards the kitchen . |
| 7 | She watched as he walked through the branches of the apple tree and strode off towards the house . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He flipped just one of the bolts in a casual way and strode off towards the farmhouse across the Paddock . |
| 11 | She hops out , bangs the door shut only slightly too energetically , and strolls off towards the shops without a backward glance . |
| 12 | Then he jumped off , grabbed Caspar who was trailing his lead , and ran off towards the gate . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll wait , ’ I said , and headed off towards the postroom . |
| 14 | Before he could close it the crowd swarmed past him in their hundreds and set off towards the castle at a trot . |
| 15 | Alec slipped by me and set off towards the changing room at a sprint . |
| 16 | Eventually the little bus was summoned again , and we jumped in thankfully and set off towards the plane , only to grind to a halt at Operations again . |
| 17 | By the time we had driven to Port Eynon , the wind had really picked up but not easily deterred , we abandoned the car and set off towards the cliffs . |
| 18 | He chuckled quietly and set off towards the feeding animals . |
| 19 | But He hummed a little tune , cheery as a plague pit , and — pausing only to extract the life from a passing mayfly , and one-ninth of the lives from a cat cowering under the fish stall ( all cats can see into the octarine ) — Death turned on His heel and set off towards the Broken Drum . |