Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | For in one follow-up meeting after another , in Belgrade and Madrid and finally Vienna , the human rights standards laid down at Helsinki were refined and tightened , while Romanian internal policies either stood still or moved in the other direction , that is to say downhill . |
| 2 | In Vl the cells would only respond to the double grating if one of the two moved in the preferred direction of the cell as tested with simple stimuli . |
| 3 | A man moved in front of the silver trucks , moved in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , thanks , ’ Polly said over her shoulder , mentally crossing her fingers as she headed in the opposite direction towards her own cabin in the bow . |
| 5 | She had expected him to lead her around the side of the house towards the gravelled front courtyard ; instead he headed in the opposite direction , down through the wide grass path into the garden itself . |
| 6 | As he turned towards the smokers ' seats , Loretta stopped and headed in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | The illuminated sail was reversible , so that it always sailed in the right direction to ensure authenticity . |
| 8 | Then , by what actually occurs , you will be able to confirm that you have in fact turned in the right direction to reach your track . |
| 9 | My poor little blind garden , what 's left of it , just up over here , near the top gate — and — ’ she turned in the opposite direction ’ — down by the river , in the old primary school building , which is in fairly good nick , they 're setting up a field study centre , and strips of land for school gardens . |
| 10 | I fired in the general direction of the officer 's head , and missed . |
| 11 | Some stretches of the river seemed to be racing downstream while the adjoining stretch , maybe fifty yard wide , raced in the opposite direction causing silent eddies and whirlpools . |
| 12 | So he walked in the opposite direction , and he went to the park to get away from the people he might know . |
| 13 | The German hotelier pointed the club-face the wrong way and swung in the wrong direction . |
| 14 | The police charged off after the fictitious yobs and we rushed in the opposite direction back to the track ! |
| 15 | The machine bumped up on a stony track that led in the general direction of the distant barn . |
| 16 | The Western Region , envious of the success of the London Midland Region Radio Land Cruise Trains , introduced their own on 29th June 1£954 which worked in the opposite direction to the L.M. Region turns . |
| 17 | Lindsey leaned against the rail watching the lights of a passing ship as it plied in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | Yet reality went in the reverse direction ; the world cake was sliced vertically , not horizontally . |
| 19 | The tree was so big that , if it had fallen into the clearing , it would have flattened most of the gathering , but luckily it went in the other direction , toppling over the cliffside . |
| 20 | So two-thirds of the attackers moved round , as silently as they could , under the high perimeter walling , to the front of the establishment , whilst the remainder , leaving a small guard on the horses , went in the other direction , west-about , to the area of the broken-down curtain walls , nearer at hand . |
| 21 | For the mass of the population , indeed , the shift of interest arguably went in the other direction . |
| 22 | So Gloria and Maudie set off one way , towards West Ferry Road , while Ruth and Sarah went in the other direction . |
| 23 | Instead of following Thérèse down the road that led to the centre of the village , out again , and so , eventually , to the Martin farm , she went in the other direction . |
| 24 | Some jews went in the opposite direction by expropriating a territory in Palestine ( on the grounds of an historical occupation ) to substantiate their claim to being a nation . |
| 25 | Total employment during the quarter rose 700 , but operating expenses went in the opposite direction from cost of sales , 30.3% of revenues compared with 32.5% in the year-ago quarter , as the company continued the remorseless cost-cutting drive . |
| 26 | There was a slight seasonal effect of gradually declining response to models , but this could not have biased the results because the response to crest accentuation went in the opposite direction , increasing significantly between early ( small crests ) presentations and the first accentuated crest presentations . |
| 27 | Total employment during the quarter rose 700 , but operating expenses went in the opposite direction from cost of sales , 30.3% of revenues compared with 32.5% in the year-ago quarter , as the company continued the remorseless cost-cutting drive . |
| 28 | She went in the opposite direction from the rock drawings , her planned destination when she had first conceived her scheme . |
| 29 | The two men went in the opposite direction . |
| 30 | Six armed and bombed-up B–17s took off at 1140hrs and flew southwards to seek the enemy , unfortunately they went in the wrong direction . |