Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] in the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | For in one follow-up meeting after another , in Belgrade and Madrid and finally Vienna , the human rights standards laid down at Helsinki were refined and tightened , while Romanian internal policies either stood still or moved in the other direction , that is to say downhill . |
| 2 | The individual must be able to convince himself that the next step is up to him and , no matter where he is staying or going , he always has the choice of leaving or turning in the opposite direction if he chooses to do so . |
| 3 | As he turned towards the smokers ' seats , Loretta stopped and headed in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | So while Philip made tentative approaches to Elizabeth , families like the Raleighs , Grenvilles and Drakes put their shoulders to the door and pushed in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | She seems to thrive on heretical statements and swimming against the tide : ‘ I look at what the cosmetic trade is doing and walk in the opposite direction , ’ she declares with the kind of outspoken defiance that has made her a retailing legend in the decade it took her to turn The Body Shop into a worldwide phenomenon . |
| 6 | And going in the other direction , what do you have inside atoms ? |
| 7 | And going in the opposite direction — falling — is like switching gravity off . ’ |
| 8 | The plane was too far away and going in the wrong direction . |
| 9 | Acceleration can only fake gravity when the gravity is the same everywhere — equally strong and pulling in the same direction — like it is in this room , more or less . |
| 10 | The German hotelier pointed the club-face the wrong way and swung in the wrong direction . |
| 11 | This neat orderliness has been attacked by Le Page and Tabouret-Keller , who write ( 1985 : 198 ) : Such a model necessarily implies a linear sequence of varieties within " a language " , with the implication that all innovation starts from the same source and travels in the same direction ; and that innovation in phonology is paralleled by a similar sequence of innovation in different parts of the grammar and lexicon . |
| 12 | er , and moving in the right direction , a whole nest of things , when you think about , if you 're going to try and influence something that are influenced , but influence is actually very varied in terms of science . |
| 13 | Defries turned and looked in the other direction . |
| 14 | He grabbed her arm as she tried to run past him , but she shook it off and spun in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | Eventually Bligh had to turn round and run in the other direction , right round the earth , into the Pacific . |
| 16 | If a car does approach you and you are threatened — scream as loud as you can and run in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | Spread on lather evenly and shave first with downward strokes , then relather and shave in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | The constellation has a distinctive shape , and there are lines of stars extending from Castor and Pollux in the general direction of Betelgeux . |
| 19 | He was but stopped and stared at me , then turned and ran in the opposite direction . |
| 20 | However , he also takes on players ( and runs in the right direction ) , and has excellent ball control . |
| 21 | She rubbed her eyes with one hand and pointed in the vague direction of the bathroom with the other . |
| 22 | The taller of the two took his weight off his rake and pointed in the other direction . |
| 23 | Saint-Exupéry said that ‘ loving someone does not mean looking into each other 's eyes , but looking in the same direction together . ’ |
| 24 | In fact love has been defined as not looking at each other , but looking in the same direction . |
| 25 | TNC is presented in the professional sequence but constructed in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | Jogs occur when , over small number of monomer units , the linear chain is displaced laterally but continues in the same direction as before . |
| 27 | He did n't run but hurried in the same direction , and he kept him in view until Joe disappeared into the belt of woodland . |