Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | From the top of the bank Yanto noticed Billy and Janet wandering off in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Creggan was watching the group of people coming along from the other direction and making a lot of noise . |
| 5 | He could hear people shouting in the distance and knew that they had gone chasing off in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | Every time I come here I begin to worry that I have somehow crossed into another stream and am sailing back in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | Sandison waited for one minute and then also left , setting off in the opposite direction from Maidstone . |
| 8 | On the Iraqi side of the frontier , the town of al-Amarah , on the easternmost of the three Baghdad-Basrah roads , was seldom free of military activity , with convoys of trucks and armour pouring into it , and private cars and taxis carrying battlefield coffins on their roofs frequently setting off in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | As the geneticists of the early twentieth century turned their backs on field studies and the role of adaptation , a very different group of biologists were striking out in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | There are , of course , specific Israeli laws to stop Damiani and Abu Khadra and Mrs Zamzam from crossing back in the other direction . |