Example sentences of "[vb past] towards the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not require a great deal of imagination to accept that the unit of physical matter could be the product of a ‘ good ’ event if it contributed towards the desired end of a happy human race , but it does require a measure of mental effort to accept that each unit of ‘ good ’ produced a corresponding unit contributing towards God , that is , a unit of Godliness . |
| 2 | Maidstone turned and shouted towards the far end of the bar : ‘ Franco ! ’ |
| 3 | Her eyes peered towards the deep end , where Nails was holding his brother down and the lifeguard was getting worried . |
| 4 | She nodded towards the far end of the table and then turned her back on them , pouring the milk into two big cauldrons by the fire . |
| 5 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
| 6 | Juliet left the office and hurried towards the far end of the ward . |