Example sentences of "pointed [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Station Chief pointed between the trousered legs and the shoes of the Greek police and security officials . |
| 2 | She pointed towards the far corner of the walled garden . |
| 3 | Britain 's transport network pointed towards the colonial past , the CBI declared : it had to be redirected to face the European future . |
| 4 | Ace half turned back to the shuttle , pointed towards the sprouting hemisphere ( like chunks of cheddar stuck all over half a grapefruit , she thought ) , and aimed the suit towards the shape that looked like the nose of an asteroid cruncher . |
| 5 | The Weasel pointed towards the burning city . |
| 6 | ‘ Well — ’ The dung-collector turned on the top step of the church and pointed towards the frozen cemetery . |
| 7 | The officer pointed towards the Hungarian frontier post and descended upon the next vehicle in the queue . |
| 8 | She pointed up the sloping corridor . |
| 9 | He pointed into the faint moonlight on the far side of the glade and Tallis felt a moment 's shock as she saw what was happening there . |
| 10 | Tagan pointed into the darkening hills , and Riven followed his finger . |
| 11 | If there was six foot four of muscle , tensed and angry in the last minutes of its life , and your only protection was some lunatic hoodlum standing to one side with a loaded pistol pointed in the general direction of the fray , would you leap in there ? |
| 12 | The arrow pointed in the right direction , but ten feet past it , without the compass , which way was north ? |
| 13 | Tip is a firm believer in fate , and in 1961 the finger pointed in the right direction for him . |
| 14 | She rubbed her eyes with one hand and pointed in the vague direction of the bathroom with the other . |
| 15 | The taller of the two took his weight off his rake and pointed in the other direction . |
| 16 | Most of our problems were due to weather and poorly functioning equipment : an extended-range Loran that never worked , an ADF that pointed in the wrong direction and a kaput old-fashioned venturi altitude indicator . |
| 17 | He pointed to the archaic foppery for Leon 's benefit . |
| 18 | Lord James said the funding would grow in subsequent years , and pointed to the constructive support and welcome the policy had received . |
| 19 | She pointed to the far side of the amber . |
| 20 | Klift pointed to the far corner . |
| 21 | Cranston touched him on the arm and pointed to the far corner , just past the huge gateway . |
| 22 | While too much emphasis should not be placed upon it , intelligence pointed to the offensive capacity of North Korea being strengthened . |
| 23 | I pointed to the great Tor . |
| 24 | We have never had a more dangerous enemy than the one who is lying out there ’ — and he pointed to the great marsh that was all round us . |
| 25 | Enfield pointed to the mysterious door . |
| 26 | He pointed to the mangled remains of the four Chelonians destroyed by the matter disrupter . |
| 27 | He also pointed to the substantive efforts being made to rectify the situation . |
| 28 | On the one hand , they proposed the creation of a press/media where no regulations restrained freedoms and , on the other hand , they pointed to the undesirable nature of regulations . |
| 29 | He pointed to the central area of the torus , where the otherwise transparent wall was a translucent pink . |
| 30 | Ranulf squatted down and pointed to the small indentation of a boot . |