Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction . |
| 2 | Several other nuees swept harmlessly down the valley of the Riviere Blanche during the next couple of months , but on 30 August death came again to Martinique , where a powerful nuee blasted out from Mt Pelee and rolled down in a new direction , engulfing the small village of Morne Rouge . |
| 3 | Here the skilled operator establishes in her own consciousness a network of alarm signals which go off when the train of thought starts chugging along in a dangerous direction . |
| 4 | He knew roughly where he was , or he knew in theory , and he stumbled slowly along in a westerly direction , sometimes holding onto the trunk of a birch tree . |
| 5 | 18 If you are on Antigua facing North , what angle do you have to turn through in a clockwise direction to face Bermuda ? |
| 6 | They do not usually break out suddenly from their traditional framework and veer off in a new direction . |
| 7 | I lapsed into a semi-coma , only vaguely conscious that we came round again to the familiar spot and waited , then headed off in a new direction . |
| 8 | Marshall set off in a new direction . |
| 9 | They clambered down the cliff-path from Sea House and set off in a western direction along the beach to Badstoneleigh . |
| 10 | However , when Franca found herself so suddenly , for two days and in such a new way , alone in the house , her vast restless self-awareness , her life energy , set her off in a fresh direction . |
| 11 | As Patricia Monahan says ‘ oil-painting should be a journey of exploration and pleasure ’ , adding that ‘ the artist sets off in a particular direction but ends up somewhere else . ’ |
| 12 | Since this issue of the NI is devoted to language we thought we might join them for once , but give our own particular slant and maybe set you off in a different direction . |
| 13 | ‘ Sun is going off on a separate direction . |
| 14 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 15 | Any swing will be increased by the inertia of the glider because the mass is behind the wheel , trying to move on in a steady direction . |
| 16 | I 'd have to strike out in a poorer direction . |