Example sentences of "[v-ing] towards [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the side of the road , he raised an arm as if to hail a taxi , but it was the sleek black BMW they had travelled in the night before that came pulling towards them out of the traffic . |
| 2 | Quiss heard rapid footsteps approaching through the racket , and ahead of him he saw two small scullions running towards him out of the mist . |
| 3 | When I saw the awful shape that was coming towards us out of the fog , my blood turned cold . |
| 4 | It came moaning towards them out of the blackness . |
| 5 | I lay on my back and tiredness came spinning towards me in widening circles as the white beach and whiskery grasses had come spinning towards me out of the night . |