Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] in the opposite " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were early for band call and , except for a gap-toothed , long-haired hippie groping along in the opposite direction , seemed to be alone . |
| 2 | The man on the moped was already speeding away in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | From the top of the bank Yanto noticed Billy and Janet wandering off in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | I can feel behind my head the haze of reddish hair going away in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way . |
| 6 | A heavy bank of clouds , very dark and tinged with deep red and purple , was creeping across the sky , while at the same time a lower bank was moving rapidly in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | And the only way she could possibly avoid it was by swerving blindly in the opposite direction , while at the same time slamming down hard on the brake . |
| 8 | He could hear people shouting in the distance and knew that they had gone chasing off in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | Every time I come here I begin to worry that I have somehow crossed into another stream and am sailing back in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | Sandison waited for one minute and then also left , setting off in the opposite direction from Maidstone . |
| 11 | On the Iraqi side of the frontier , the town of al-Amarah , on the easternmost of the three Baghdad-Basrah roads , was seldom free of military activity , with convoys of trucks and armour pouring into it , and private cars and taxis carrying battlefield coffins on their roofs frequently setting off in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | As the geneticists of the early twentieth century turned their backs on field studies and the role of adaptation , a very different group of biologists were striking out in the opposite direction . |