Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the same direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 2 | Other great cities went in the same direction , without any questions being asked in central government , or by the opposition , about the electoral system . |
| 3 | I looked in the same direction and saw a group of men standing and staring at us . |
| 4 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 5 | Paul-Henri Spaak even wrote a personal letter to the British prime minister , Anthony Eden , which , in appealing for discussions within WEU , pointed in the same direction . |
| 6 | The flowering of Russian opera and ballet pointed in the same direction . |
| 7 | You had this lump of rock that you dangled from a thread and people discovered that it always pointed in the same direction , so if you were on board , a ship for the first time people were able to travel in a ship without having to hug a coast all the way across or navigate to where they could see . |
| 8 | He did n't run but hurried in the same direction , and he kept him in view until Joe disappeared into the belt of woodland . |