Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv prt] towards the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I steer her back towards the motel building , frog-marching her into Room 206 . |
| 2 | So , take your fingers from the outside and move them in towards the nose and round so that you do n't stretch the skin even more . |
| 3 | Those luggers , as Denholm said , are hopeless windward sailors but in this case it will be directly astern of them and carry them down towards the Kásos Strait to the east of the easternmost tip of Crete . ’ |
| 4 | Doctors were hurrying to him now , lifting him with careful , expert hands , speaking soothingly as they helped support him and half carry him back towards the wards . |
| 5 | Gust of warmth , beer and music rushing out to meet them and suck them in towards the bar . |
| 6 | ‘ I bet we could sling a hook up and then pull it over towards the window , and then — ’ |
| 7 | This would take the steam out of the refugee crisis and help us on towards the relaxed and variegated community of states across Europe as a whole which is likely to be the real guarantee of security . |
| 8 | We lead her back towards the Odeon Mezzanine and break the ice by saying interestingly how confusing it is that the Odeon Mezzanine , the Odeon Leicester Square and the Odeon West End are all situated within yards of each other . |