Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] same direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the figures , some of them cloaked like witches , were facing in the same direction — away from Maisie and Robert . |
| 2 | Thus , although non-Muslim monotheists , like the Christians and the Jews , had not travelled as far along the road to truth as the Muslims , they were travelling in the same direction . |
| 3 | He was going in the same direction , empty . |
| 4 | The longstanding quota of 14 per cent on foreign imports was still in place , but Channel 4 was buying a quarter of its programmes from independent companies , and the BBC was moving in the same direction . |
| 5 | Whereas in much of eastern Europe , which was moving in the same direction , enserfment seems to have been the response of a very powerful nobility to a labour shortage ( made more acute in areas responding to the growing Western market for grain ) , in Russia the State clearly played a greater role . |