Example sentences of "going [prep] the opposite [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hips going in the opposite direction to the feet , ending in Ethel standing on one leg like a stork the other leg wrapped round Sid 's waist and he bending over backwards with his head touching the floor . |
| 2 | The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | We 'd gone miles , then saw your tracks going in the opposite direction , so we doubled back . ’ |
| 4 | He was walking very rapidly , far faster than Shiva was going in the opposite direction , from a building with long windows and white-uniformed men and girls behind them that looked like a lab , towards the main block . |
| 5 | ‘ Going in the opposite direction , but I have n't heard any lately . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't see so many people going in the opposite direction now , so I hope that 's a sign that we 've persuaded a few of them to stay in town and watch their local team . ’ |
| 7 | In Philadelphia , Thom Bell was going in the opposite direction , enveloping a romantic vocal group called the Delfonics in a jacuzzi of French horns , flugelhorns , flutes , strings , harps , tinkerbell glockenspiels and even Indian sitars . |
| 8 | Going in the opposite direction was a bomb sight which would ultimately end up on the Hampden cockpit project at East Kirkby . |
| 9 | Now those are arteries , that 's the pulmonary artery but it 's coming back to the heart okay , that 's the only time you 're going to find the rule reversed , arteries leave the heart , veins come back to the heart , and the only time that rule is reversed is when you 're linking the heart and the lungs through the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery , however , they are still carrying , the arteries are still carrying oxygen charged blood , yes , because it 's come fresh from the lungs so it 's still carrying nice red lovely oxygenated blood , yes , even though it 's coming back into the heart , that is because it 's come fresh from the lungs and the vein although it 's going in the opposite direction the way you normally expect it , is still carrying the old rotten , you know , used up blood , because it 's going back to the lungs to be recharged , do you understand it alright ? |
| 10 | And going in the opposite direction — falling — is like switching gravity off . ’ |
| 11 | There was one bad moment , when he met a car going in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 13 | She was going in the opposite direction this time . |
| 14 | We have been successful in going in the opposite direction — in increasing the number of jobs and in making British industry more competitive in the past 10 years . |
| 15 | At a time when household formation rates suggest we should be going in the opposite direction , simply to stand still . |
| 16 | Bulmers and the thousands of farmers who supply them with fruit are hoping that although the apples will continue to obey the law of gravity , profits and sales will keep going in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | But we 've not wilfully put at risk services or jobs by risking capping by going in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | So she was going to the opposite direction actually , and I insisted that I do n't want to take her that long she would have to walk back again . |
| 19 | Other would-be reformers are going to the opposite extreme , trying to concoct complicated ways for people in one district to subsidise those in another . |