Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] both direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was broader than Ruth , used to the fast-flowing rivers of Yorkshire , had expected , and was busy with craft plying in both directions . |
| 2 | This convergence was , they claimed , occurring from both directions : ‘ conventional ’ deviants were organising politically to alter their treatment ( prisoners rights organisations , gay liberation , organised ghetto riots ) and politically marginal groups were using conventional deviant methods such as robbery and violence to achieve political goals ( black power movements , the weathermen , the angry brigade in Britain ) . |
| 3 | Philip ran into the ride , looking in both directions along it . |
| 4 | Roadworks continue on the M forty too between junctions four and five , High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , two narrow lanes will be operating in both directions with a contraflow for a short section about midway between the two junctions . |
| 5 | At the Gynn , the ravine was bridged and an elaborate tramway layout constructed , facilitating cars reversing in both directions . |
| 6 | It is now a private house , but retains the characteristic features of the Victorian toll-house , with windows facing in both directions ( see London — Hampstead ) . |
| 7 | He gazed out of the window at the jog-trotting crowds of peasants moving in both directions along the road . |
| 8 | It was touch-and-go whether she could reach the pram before it either overturned or leapt from the rocky wall at the foot of the bank on to the road , along which traffic was speeding in both directions . |
| 9 | On the M forty at junction two for Beaconsfield , there 's a contraflow in operation with two narrow lanes running in both directions and the westbound entry slip road closed . |
| 10 | On the M forty , between junctions four and five , that 's between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , there are two narrow lanes running in both directions and there 's , er added to the trouble , there 's a contraflow at Boulter End with single-line traffic running both ways . |
| 11 | Also it 's down to two lanes running in both directions between junctions five and seven , that 's between Stokenchurch and Thame , and er on the A forty one the road between Banbury and Bicester , there are temporary traffic lights , that 's between the Soldern turnoff by the Bear public house and Northampshire border , that 's going to be causing some delays . |
| 12 | After being seen whizzing out of the doors of a rink , he had to skate at speed along a footpath of the common , round a spiral pedestrian walkway , on to a road , grab the back of a passing bus , let go , cut across a main road between cars coming in both directions , go across another road — between the wheels of a moving articulated lorry — and end up in a babywear shop , somersaulting into a cot . |
| 13 | ‘ Underrecording in both directions ’ was an important factor , as Dunning and Murphy stress . |
| 14 | But I think before very long you are in fact working in both directions . |