Example sentences of "and [vb past] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 2 | But still it 's an important paper that sort of broke away from a lot of the traditional thinking and led towards a lot more feminist stuff . |
| 3 | He turned and tottered towards the office doors . |
| 4 | ‘ Fucking bitch , ’ he hissed and lunged towards her . |
| 5 | Harry , galvanized by the words , sprang from his seat and lunged towards the door , but too late : an impenetrable barrier of glass and metal separated him from his quarry . |
| 6 | He made a perfect landing and taxied towards the hangars where half a dozen men waited in Luftwaffe overalls . |
| 7 | Curiosity aroused , the rider turned his horse and rode towards them . |
| 8 | Fearon turned his horse 's head and rode towards her . |
| 9 | When he had n't moved , one of the humans had fetched a box out of the back of the truck and crept towards him as if expecting Masklin to explode . |
| 10 | He rose obediently and lolloped towards them . |
| 11 | These all use an architecture based on stacks and segmentation , and oriented towards high-level language usage ; its fully-developed form is described in Hauck and Dent ( 1968 ) , Creech ( 1970 ) , and Organick ( 1973 ) . |
| 12 | Howling a fervent execrating battlecry , Bjortson broke from the pack of cadets and sprinted towards the alien prisoner . |
| 13 | His point was that a war in peacetime would have to be fought against unemployment , as it persistently remained above one million in the 1920s , and rose towards three million during the severe cyclical depression between 1929 and 1932 . |
| 14 | One of the ducks , who had taken shelter nearby , heard Uncle Alfred and swam towards them . |
| 15 | ‘ Come on in , funky , ’ he called and swam towards her , a slow , lazy breast stroke . |
| 16 | As she drew closer , a burly , red-faced police sergeant detached himself from the crowd and moved towards her , notebook in hand . |
| 17 | I excused myself from Mr Cardinal and moved towards the doors . |
| 18 | A quick flick of a comb through her hair — there was no hat to accessorise this dress — she reached for the crocodile clutch bag and moved towards the doorway for Arlene to give her a quick check before she stepped out onto the catwalk again . |
| 19 | Mother looked at them , shook her head and sighed , then advising Etty to rinse herself with the warm water , she turned , stood up , and moved towards the door , unaware that her apron-strings were entangled with a handle of the zinc-tub … |
| 20 | Slowly he put down his glass and moved towards her . |
| 21 | Willie got up from the table excitedly and moved towards them . |
| 22 | Shock made her cry out , and he closed the door and moved towards her in quick strides , putting his hand across her mouth to stop-her scream . |
| 23 | He exposed himself in a railway carriage and moved towards the victim , inviting her to have connections with him . |
| 24 | Uncertainly Jean-Paul picked up his jacket and moved towards the door . |
| 25 | Hari straightened her shawl with trembling fingers and moved towards the door . |
| 26 | Craig shook his brother off easily and moved towards the fireplace . |
| 27 | Perhaps it is time we placed less emphasis on our role as individual therapists teaching specialist skills , and moved towards the position of educators and organizers of self-help services . |
| 28 | Sabrina shrugged and moved towards the youth . |
| 29 | She saw it , a paperback Margery Allingham , on the shadowy sofa and moved towards it . |
| 30 | He stood up and moved towards the door . |