Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the opposite direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | Well you 're measuring it in the opposite direction to the way you 're measuring X. |
| 3 | Only when some convincing reason can be adduced for believing that both employers and workers not only misread market signals , but also misread them in the opposite direction from each other , will it be plausible to infer that both the supply of and demand for labour will rise with the general rise in prices and money wages . |
| 4 | Pushing the joystick in the direction of travel results in a low , grubhunting kick , slap it in the opposite direction to give a high lob , and leave it in neutral for something between the two . |
| 5 | You become very conscious in broadcasting that though you teach the same truths , you approach them from the opposite direction . |
| 6 | Skirting the lakeside , she took a route which led her in the opposite direction from him . |
| 7 | If , spontaneously , a system passes from state A to state B , it will require energy to drive it in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | Release the joystick and he 'll carry on running — to stop him , pull it in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | Continuous eruptions created a wilderness of blast and air pockets ; they barely recovered from one sickening jolt before something hurled them in the opposite direction , or the plane stumbled into a vacuum and hit bottom fifty feet down . |