Example sentences of "begin [verb] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any moment Dick might begin to slide towards the quarry . |
| 2 | She saw him begin to walk towards her . |
| 3 | If the candidate seems settled in for the day stand up and help him/her with their coat , or begin to walk towards the door . |
| 4 | The body will begin to lower towards the ground . |
| 5 | Now , however , he knew the army must begin to shrink towards its battle order . |
| 6 | The police committee is asked to consider whether local government should begin to contribute towards Victim Support schemes . |
| 7 | It is in some of the drawings and sketches executed at Gosol that the facial types begin to harden towards the ‘ Iberian ’ style of the autumn . |
| 8 | Now Hungarian poetry may begin to change towards a poetry which is more autonomous , more self-subsistent with its own themes and materials , not necessarily so directly structured by our political situation . |
| 9 | The twins also began to see towards the end of the book that Piggy was very clever and started to show him some respect . |
| 10 | Johnny Marr began to slide towards potential alcoholism , drinking a bottle of Remy Martin a night , and the band began to drift apart . |
| 11 | Dunan 's group began loping towards the Rorim , leaving two bodies behind them on the moonlit ground . |
| 12 | It began to burrow towards the factory . |
| 13 | The lights came on again , and , laughing and jostling , the guests began to stream towards the door . |
| 14 | The conical roof of the summer-house showed above a high hedge about fifty yards down the bank , so forcing himself to act casually , he began to stroll towards it . |
| 15 | Enterprise zones originated in a number of ideas that began to amalgamate towards the end of the 1970s . |
| 16 | Further afield , the Indian National Congress was already beginning to grope towards a national identity , as was the Sarekat Islam in the great Dutch empire of the East Indies . |
| 17 | She began inching towards him , hugging the face of the cliff , praying that the rock beneath her would hold . |
| 18 | From the early 1940s , the Irish government began to work towards the introduction of a comprehensive health service for mothers and children in line with other legislative developments in Western countries . |
| 19 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 20 | I could n't make out what was going on so I began walking towards the image , binoculars pressed to my eyes . |
| 21 | I began walking towards what I thought was the town . |
| 22 | Scrambling down from the mound of sand , Garry began walking towards the houses , his hands and knees stained orange . |
| 23 | Maura began walking towards them like a condemned man on his way to the gallows . |
| 24 | ’ Dismissing him with a gesture , she began walking towards the door which she meant to bang closed behind him . |
| 25 | Then he began walking towards Magee . |
| 26 | He began walking towards it and she saw that he had one hand inside his jacket , as if reaching for something . |
| 27 | She began walking towards the depression , as four suited figures followed her from the ship , still arguing about the paperwork . |
| 28 | She began walking towards the door . |
| 29 | As Sara leaned over the gate , a slight figure who had been obscured behind them began walking towards her along the hedge . |
| 30 | He pulled away and began to wander towards the stairs . |