Example sentences of "look [prep] the direction of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had anyone been looking in the direction of Miss Danziger they would have observed a faint smile gathering at the corners of her mouth and fading as quickly as it formed . |
| 2 | His head he was keeping averted , looking in the direction of the drift , at the wall of cluster pines with their black needles and their green cones . |
| 3 | He went out for a few moments and stood on the steps between the Greek pillars , looking in the direction of the Residency for any sign of movement . |
| 4 | They continued to feed , or stared out on the Zoo not looking in the direction of Minch at all ; while Creggan was so busy staring at Minch in delight and pleasure that he did not notice behind him , in the next-door cage , Slorne stare for the moment at Minch and then swing round and silently resume her vigil at the back top of her cage , looking at the trees and sky . |
| 5 | ‘ Uncle Stephen can help too ! ’ she added , looking in the direction of her brother who smiled wryly , a little out of it . |
| 6 | In fact I think the people who are looking in the direction of change in terms of parent governors and P T As etcetera are , I think looking in the wrong direction . |
| 7 | More pressure would have to be applied in that area , before the newspapers started to look in the direction of the National Socialists . |
| 8 | You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ? |
| 9 | Rather , the Commission looked in the direction of devolution of power of some sort ( though the members of it were divided as to what sort ) . |
| 10 | Just at that moment , the cats all leapt to their feet with their fur on end and looked in the direction of the door . |
| 11 | Julia looked in the direction of his waving arm and saw an equally tall man in UNRRA uniform striding along towards them . |