Example sentences of "come in the opposite [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Just at the point where we were walking , the car suddenly mounted the pavement to avoid a vehicle coming in the opposite direction . |
2 | There were few headlights coming in the opposite direction beyond the barrier , and few travelling in his direction . |
3 | This afternoon , however , she was too much perturbed in her mind to trouble about such things , and she rounded the corner at a run which would have spelt disaster had anyone been coming in the opposite direction . |
4 | For no apparent reason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction , killing the other driver instantly . |
5 | Suddenly you hear the scrabble of claws coming in the opposite direction . |
6 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
7 | As she went , she ransacked her bag for her keys , and almost bumped into Rebecca , coming in the opposite direction . |
8 | Alan Dawtrey was driving a Metro at about 80 mph on the wrong side of the road before it smashed into a lorry coming in the opposite direction , Oxford Crown Court heard . |
9 | For coming in the opposite direction was an endless flood of motor cyclists zooming home from the North West 200 . |
10 | Er , because obviously they are putting motorists coming in the opposite direction er in er great danger and I feel that before too long we 're gon na have a head on collision er which is going to end up with serious injuries . |
11 | It 's just the pressure that you feel on the road particularly when you have a large vehicle behind you — a big lorry and they ca n't overtake because there 's something coming in the opposite direction … it does make you quite nervous . |
12 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |