Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] towards the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He waited for Siban to find a way to phrase the request which was so obviously his intent , but instead Siban rose to his feet and stalked away towards the door , his departure so abrupt that Alexei was taken by surprise . |
| 2 | With that , she turned and stalked away towards the exhibition stand where the photographer was waiting , camera slung over his shoulder . |
| 3 | So out of habit as much as out of duty , he turned his captured horse and rode again towards the enemy . |
| 4 | As Anna stretched out her hand and moved slowly towards the sound , Seb made another plea . |
| 5 | When they hear something that sounds like prey , they move their heads until the frequency is the same in both ears , then keep their heads exactly in position and fly straight towards the sound . |
| 6 | Ursula flicked a fragment of cigarette ash off the sleeve of her black dress and added , almost as an afterthought , ‘ Poor Maurice , ’ before turning and walking away towards the house . |
| 7 | ‘ Now , I must go and read the children that story I promised them , and then I 'll have to pack my case , ’ he added , clearly considering the subject closed as he patted her hand before rising from the couch and walking away towards the twins ' bedroom . |
| 8 | She saw , coming out of the hut and walking across towards the gate , Pete and Sammy , two of her youth volunteers . |
| 9 | There were four long rings and then it cut out , but before it stopped , Cawthorne was coming out of the farmhouse and walking quickly towards the Paddock . |
| 10 | In the qualifying stages they were drawn against Finland and Norway and staggered unconvincingly towards the finals , after only 13 members of the pool turned up for a training session at Ayr before the vital away match in Oslo . |
| 11 | Town — owned by Michael Heseltine — was a monthly , oriented inefficiently to the male equivalent of the readers of Queen , and stumbling blindly towards the market to be opened up within two years by Tony Elliott 's Time Out . |
| 12 | Back on terra firma , fifteen others bundled into an assortment of cars and drove slowly towards the unsuspecting target . |
| 13 | Immediately a dark form shot from the cover of the bushes and darted quickly towards the house . |
| 14 | Soon the youngest son emerged into the grey light of the winter land and came silently towards the totem . |
| 15 | When it did not come she breathed a little more easily , and looking upwards towards the landing , considered the advisability of progressing further . |
| 16 | Stifling her impatience , Shannon waited another half-hour , then , moving with as much stealth as she could muster , pulled on a jacket , slung the hold-all over her shoulder , and tiptoed quietly towards the door . |
| 17 | I take my combination tackle bag and seat and walk carefully towards the river , then place the seat near to the water but behind the cover of a hawthorn bush . |
| 18 | And then he had watched two men leave the Tower and walk across towards the Stones , towards his Stones , and he had clambered down from his perch and hidden himself where they would not see him but where he could watch them . |
| 19 | The middle-length waxy horns are dark at the tips and grow outwards , curving slightly downwards on the bull but spreading gracefully and turning upwards towards the ends on the cow . |
| 20 | His talons swung down and ahead of him and opened starkly towards the vulnerable hand . |
| 21 | He subsequently began to abandon Iran 's long tradition of playing off East against West and turned increasingly towards the United States for the support of his regime . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , the Shah 's 707 , with the Shah himself at the controls , climbed and turned away towards the West , the source of many of his dreams and illusions , and now the object of hatred of many of his people . |
| 23 | The blood of the wounded trickled from the bank , spilling like one of the showers that freshened the earth each day , and flowed downstream towards the sea , which was not so far that its rich scarlet could diffuse before it met the waves . |
| 24 | ( ii ) Expose the body wall by grasping the skin of the abdomen immediately above and below the midline with fingers and thumb and pulling simultaneously towards the head and feet ( this procedure can be made easier if a small midline knick is first made in the skin with a pair of scissors ) . |
| 25 | She filled Duclos ' empty glass unobtrusively and retreated silently towards the door . |
| 26 | Bozo stares up and down the road and wonders what to do before he finally fixes his bleary gaze where I hoped he would , and trudges away towards the phonebox . |
| 27 | Eases on his cap and trudges away towards the out field . |
| 28 | He got up reluctantly , put the cup down on the dressing table and walked slowly towards the bathroom . |
| 29 | He ground his cigarette underfoot and walked slowly towards the Fiat . |
| 30 | I got up from my bed and walked slowly towards the cupboard , I turned the handle and stepped back . |