Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] towards the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
| 2 | Yussuf caught hold of her and propelled her towards the gate . |
| 3 | Then he took Victoria 's hand and led her towards the strange woman . |
| 4 | He made no response , but just took her hand and led her towards the stable-block . |
| 5 | He turned now and led her towards the door , but there he stopped and in a quiet voice said , ‘ Now , do what I tell you . |
| 6 | She drew him inside and led him towards the candle-light . |
| 7 | In skill training the opposite can apply , the trainee is persuaded to be flexible and to orient himself towards the end rather than the means . |
| 8 | The result is a tax designed to raise cash from better-off voters in safe Tory areas and push it towards the marginals . |
| 9 | Forming the pinch pleats Hold the centre of the single pleat and press it towards the stitching line behind , to form three separate pleats of equal size . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course you can , ’ she said , taking his arm and walking him towards the bay window , but she kept one eye on the painting in case they were tempted . |
| 11 | Rose went scuttling off to intercept Dieter ; she grabbed him by the hand and drew him towards the tea-table , her bird-like voice rising above the general chatter as she told him what had happened . |
| 12 | She picked up a knife lying on the draining board by the sink , and drove it towards the man 's hand . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll take him up to his bed , Cissie , ’ Beth told her , at the same time taking the boy by the hand and leading him towards the door . |
| 15 | And if you had no tongue , no celebrating language , you 'd do this : cross your hands at the wrist with palms facing towards you ; place your crossed wrists over your heart ( the middle of your chest , anyway ) ; then move your hands outwards a short distance , and open them towards the object of your love . |
| 16 | He put a hand upon her shoulder , which was firm and slender , and turned her towards the gate . |
| 17 | He smiled , to show her he was joking , and turned her towards the sun . |
| 18 | But she only smiled and turned him towards the door . |
| 19 | He bowed slightly from the waist , an elegant formal gesture more Teutonic than Danish , before taking Gina firmly by one hand , the bottle of aquavit in the other , and marching her towards the bar . |
| 20 | And when Jessie saw this man that she loved slide down the wall , then drop onto his side , she screamed ; but her screaming was soon checked by her father who , staggering towards her , put his hand over her mouth then twisted one of her arms behind her and thrust her towards the staircase door . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The shepherds gather their flocks and drive them towards the neighbouring woods in the hope of saving them . |
| 23 | By definition , the sponsor also has resources ( money , people , equipment ) and applies them towards the development of an idea . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Now , what you can do is try and cut it towards the middle of your line of aim . |
| 26 | He grabbed my arm and guided me towards the road . |
| 27 | Yanto curled his arm around Sheila 's waist and guided her towards the river bank . |
| 28 | With sick fear in his stomach , Cardiff took her arm and guided her towards the side door . |
| 29 | Depth is easier to convey pictorially if you avoid shooting your scenes square-on and go instead for diagonal compositions which lead the eye into the picture and direct it towards the centre of attention . |
| 30 | Ducking past Feargal , she took Terry 's arm , and urged her towards the stairs . |