Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he just carried on in the same direction . |
| 2 | We were early for band call and , except for a gap-toothed , long-haired hippie groping along in the opposite direction , seemed to be alone . |
| 3 | Of course I simply wandered away in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | We needed a compass bearing to ensure we headed off in the right direction , a reminder that even a ‘ valley ’ walk can land the unwary in difficulties . |
| 5 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | Storey moved off in the general direction of young Lindy . |
| 7 | Fortified by a beautiful lunch of belly pork and fried onions , Yanto wandered contentedly in the general direction of the Blue Boar . |
| 8 | Harry watched it until it had turned into Emlyn Square , then began walking unsteadily in the same direction . |
| 9 | When the full length of tape has been used , the drive stops , and starts again in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | The man on the moped was already speeding away in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | They had organized a decoy system whereby Carolyn drove Diana 's car to entice her press pursuers away and then Diana would emerge from Coleherne Court and walk off in the other direction . |
| 12 | But when Neill rows to investigate , he is astonished to see his yacht , complete with his wife and dog , sail off in the opposite direction with the unhinged Zane at the wheel . |
| 13 | From the top of the bank Yanto noticed Billy and Janet wandering off in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction . |
| 15 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 16 | With a winning smile at a rather bemused young man , she dragged him up to dance , and every time she saw Feargal she made off in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | I can feel behind my head the haze of reddish hair going away in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | Run away in the wrong direction — ‘ |
| 19 | He dodged away and took the opportunity to walk rapidly in the opposite direction from the one in which Stair 's lot might be , towards Pall Mall , passing the narrow courts and alleys which led from the brilliantly lit main street . |
| 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 | Separate the £50 , £20 , £10 , £5 , £1 notes and stack them face upwards in the same direction . |
| 22 | By peering hard in the same direction , I could just make out the faint flicker of a distant plane . |
| 23 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 24 | We are all used to thinking of the Earth as some kind of large magnet , with two magnetic poles located quite near the geographic North and South Poles , so that the needle of a compass always lines up in the same direction . |
| 25 | The tramp tossed the empty cup away and shuffled off in the other direction . |
| 26 | A heavy bank of clouds , very dark and tinged with deep red and purple , was creeping across the sky , while at the same time a lower bank was moving rapidly in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | The Prison Department in England is moving tentatively in the same direction . |
| 28 | It 's very heartening that the A T C are actually looking to us to do some work with them , and that they actually think that Oxford is moving forward in the right direction , and that they actually want to come and share some of our knowledge . |
| 29 | The measures Mr Manos introduced have at last started to get the figures moving firmly in the right direction . |
| 30 | And the only way she could possibly avoid it was by swerving blindly in the opposite direction , while at the same time slamming down hard on the brake . |