Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I simply wandered away in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | Fortified by a beautiful lunch of belly pork and fried onions , Yanto wandered contentedly in the general direction of the Blue Boar . |
| 3 | Harry watched it until it had turned into Emlyn Square , then began walking unsteadily in the same direction . |
| 4 | When the full length of tape has been used , the drive stops , and starts again in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | The man on the moped was already speeding away in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | I can feel behind my head the haze of reddish hair going away in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | Run away in the wrong direction — ‘ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Separate the £50 , £20 , £10 , £5 , £1 notes and stack them face upwards in the same direction . |
| 10 | By peering hard in the same direction , I could just make out the faint flicker of a distant plane . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Prison Department in England is moving tentatively in the same direction . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The measures Mr Manos introduced have at last started to get the figures moving firmly in the right direction . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A closed van was coming fast from the other direction , and the Montego was nose to tail with the car in front of it . |
| 18 | Semantic structure and context ‘ operate either in the same direction as or counter to ’ linear modification ( Firbas , 1974 : 22 ) , but both are hierarchically superior to it . |
| 19 | Or is it blinks fast in the other direction ? |
| 20 | Meredith lifted her head from her feline acquaintance , pushed back the curtain of dark brown hair which obscured her vision and looked curiously in the general direction of the voice . |
| 21 | John Major 's government gallops proudly in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | He skidded hard in the opposite direction anticipating attack , but none came . |
| 23 | A Tennent 's steam lorry , belching oily wood smoke because of the coal shortage , clanked past in the opposite direction , a rag-and-bone cart overtaking on the inside . |
| 24 | Electron scattering is anisotropic and the scattering amplitudes peak strongly in the forward direction . |
| 25 | They were all thrown forward in the same direction . |
| 26 | In retrospect , the ECSC did not seem superficially to have achieved much in the political direction . |
| 27 | But many British programmes , especially dramas , do n't travel well in the opposite direction . |
| 28 | I was glad he had n't seen me either as I hurried away in the opposite direction . |
| 29 | He was irritated by my disbelief and pointed forcefully in the same direction as before , shouting , ‘ Reggane ! ’ |