Example sentences of "[adv prt] towards the [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 We finally made it to the road and sped along towards the village in a cloud of dust , the three of us crouching low in the jeep .
2 Now , it was reaching out , spiralling its essence down towards the wormhole in the fabric of the Dark , ready to feed itself into the earthly plane , to become one with the Vessel .
3 You will see where the corner between the top of the nostril and the eyebrow is rounded over and the cuts are made both from the nostril up and from the eyebrow down , forming a gradual taper down towards the mouth in the process .
4 Dave 's party headed up towards the Rohtang in a fleet of hired Morris Oxford taxis .
5 He did not look up towards the guard in the watch-tower .
6 They walked back towards the lawn in a procession at the pace of Richard 's small strides until he stumbled over a tussock of grass , admitted that he was tired and accepted a ride on the detective 's shoulders .
7 Then he moved back towards the circle in the grass on the other side of the road .
8 Section 9(4) , which operates at the time of the application for an order under the Act , looks back towards the time in relation to which the witness would give evidence if an order was made and not forward to the time at which he would do so .
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