Example sentences of "[prep] the opposite direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later he breathlessly approached the car from the opposite direction , fell into his seat , and said : ‘ Well , that 's all right . |
| 2 | Today 's newcomers are as likely as not to arrive from the opposite direction : businessmen seeking to escape the pollution , water shortages , high taxes and labour costs of southern California . |
| 3 | But belief may also be threatened from the opposite direction — by too little evidence that there is a God . |
| 4 | His landlady had said that Drew had returned in a dishevelled state about 1.00am from the opposite direction from the theatre . |
| 5 | With her thoughts far away and her eyes fixed on the distant horizon , she did not notice where she was going — and as the tall , broad-shouldered man who was coming from the opposite direction was too deeply absorbed in his own reflections to be aware of his surroundings , there was a sudden abrupt collision . |
| 6 | At the same instant there was a shout from the opposite direction and the sound of running feet , and Allen melted into the bushes . |
| 7 | In April 1986 our 29-year-old son met a lorry coming from the opposite direction with a very heavy utility trailer in tow . |
| 8 | But neither of them saw Captain Meredith coming from the opposite direction on his way to visit Lawyer Loveitt , and he failed to see them as he crossed into Frog Lane seconds after they had left it . |
| 9 | Upon the approach of a porter from the opposite direction , the dog proved he could match the dimensions of a trolley by laying flat with all available limbs akimbo ; a heaving mountain of furiously barking hair the sensible porter declined to try and pass . |
| 10 | We may arrive in sight of the same conclusion , near enough to see the possibility of rooting all valuation in a single principle of awareness , by an approach from the opposite direction . |
| 11 | As for the second , we have undermined its apparent logic by approaching from the opposite direction ; what is self-evident is that a person should prefer his reaction in fullest awareness , what would require proof is a claim that the awareness should be from all spatial and temporal but only one personal viewpoint . |
| 12 | A police officer who was at the scene of the crash said , ‘ Mrs Gallagher was travelling on her own side when struck by a vehicle coming from the opposite direction on her side of the road . ’ |
| 13 | Another investigation , looking at the problem as it were from the opposite direction , compared adoptees selected for later estimates of their creativity and then examined incidences of mental illness . |
| 14 | You become very conscious in broadcasting that though you teach the same truths , you approach them from the opposite direction . |
| 15 | But how could he come from the opposite direction ? |
| 16 | At any moment she will turn round and check that her friend is not coming from the opposite direction . |
| 17 | The embassy would be coming , as you say , from the opposite direction . ’ |
| 18 | 9 The form continues with the student initiating an attack from the opposite direction : most forms in kung fu cover all directions of the compass . |
| 19 | As Dr Haidar spoke a party of sweepers appeared in the lane , coming from the opposite direction to the marriage party . |
| 20 | They took the corner in a skidding turn , and rocketed into the dark mouth of the alley only a few yards ahead of the second police car , which was racing up from the opposite direction . |
| 21 | Motorists would benefit in other ways too , eg. the difficulty of overtaking a cyclist on narrow streets when something is coming from the opposite direction . |
| 22 | Approaching this problem from the opposite direction , Gary Felsenfeld ( NIH ) described a series of experiments mapping the redistribution of nucleosomes caused by the passage of T7 RNA polymerase in vitro . |
| 23 | All afternoon he had been monitoring the progress of the Peace Demo from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square and plotting the advance of the National Front from the opposite direction . |
| 24 | Another orange goes bounding away up the corridor ahead of them , under the feet of one of Summerchild 's colleagues who is approaching from the opposite direction , coming back from lunch . |
| 25 | Instinctively I turned away , and then I realized I was walking in the opposite direction , then running , almost tripping over my own two flat feet . |
| 26 | It is seldom possible to land down wind or in the opposite direction to the take-off . |
| 27 | But even if a choreographer breaks such regularity when setting a classical ballet he usually balances the pattern made on the floor in one enchaînement by another moving in the opposite direction . |
| 28 | Although the author pays lip-service to the idea of climbing as a form of meditation and the reward lying in the process rather than the achievement , the main thrust seems to lie in the opposite direction , in the acquisition of things . |
| 29 | With the colour mask tube the horizontal definition is theoretically reduced by a factor of three but the eye is quite tolerant to small changes of detail in moving scenes in the opposite direction . |
| 30 | A balanced market , by definition , can swing surprisingly fast in the opposite direction : the chances are , for example , that Malawi will not have a drought next year . |