Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made my way down into the tube station and on towards the Circle Line . |
| 2 | Just beyond the church is a track which leads back out of the bay and on towards the soaring cliffs of Fair Head . |
| 3 | You dip down the drive from the Yoxford to Peasenhall road across an ornamental bridge and on towards this plain and golden Greek Revival house . |
| 4 | Through Santa Cruz and on towards San Francisco , whose sky-scraper-stacked skyline stands out as a silent rebuke to the Manhattanisation of the city , for which many residents blame ex-mayor and gubernatorial candidate Dianne Feinstein . |
| 5 | An invisible line ran past the corner , left at the second gas-lamp , straight as truth across the grass beside the upright sleepers that lined the railway track , and on towards the enemy territory of the Baltic Fleet . |
| 6 | He thought only of a water pipe , a narrow metal pipe that carried water away from the compound and under the wire and the high wooden fence and on towards the two-storey barracks and the kitchens and dormitories of the guards . |
| 7 | The drive to Templeton , her Old Westbury , Long Island mansion , sweeps through a verdant meadow dotted with horse jumps , past an avenue of linden trees ( planted by her uncle-in-law J.S. Phipps in 1906 ) , and on towards a spectacular ‘ moon gate ’ trellisage — Mrs Guest 's own invention — which frames in its circled centre a vista of kitchen gardens , cutting gardens , flamboyant topiary , and the house itself , build of old weathered brick and weather- board in the Twenties Wiltshire Queen Anne vernacular . |
| 8 | I went and stood in the corridor and watched the towns and villages flash past ; we went through Chalon-sur-Saône , Dijon and on towards Lyons . |
| 9 | With UN approval MacArthur pursued them across the parallel and on towards the Yalu River which marked the border with Communist China . |
| 10 | We walked out into the square and on towards Yardarm Street and Commercial Road without looking back . |
| 11 | She watched him ride on , past the lilacs , past the green door and on towards the main gate to the farmyard . |
| 12 | The multitude then filed past the Opera House and down towards the central station . |
| 13 | Beardmore 's loomed like a sleeping giant over the hill , and down towards Shettleston Road a break in the clouds painted a fleeting blue on the topmost windows of the tenements . |
| 14 | Wearing dark glasses and dressed in a polo-neck sweater , corduroy trousers and desert boots , with a towel round his neck , he simply strolled out of the house and down towards the harbour . |
| 15 | But , carrying baskets of buffalo dung from the pit by the cattle shed , along the road and down towards the mango tree to put it on the furthest field , my nose was burnt before I 'd walked twenty yards . |
| 16 | Afterwards , they lay silently together and as he thought of the recent conversation with Giancarlo he slowly ran his finger along her hip-bone and down towards her inner thigh . |
| 17 | Craig tucked the books inside his coat and as the door was flung open , he strode past his open-mouthed brother and down towards the drawing-room . |
| 18 | She looked out through the big picture window and across the manicured lawn and down towards the ponds and away towards the line of birches at the bottom of the garden . |
| 19 | We sat for a while by the cairn in the hot sun looking out before us , the only noise being the sound of the beck behind us falling over boulders and down towards Brackens Gill and the Dee . |
| 20 | Past the trees and down towards the gate , out of the gate and into the clown 's car , through the town and then beside the ocean … |
| 21 | They walked up Holborn , across the darkening common which stretched out before the old city walls , into the pestiferous area around Newgate and down towards Cheapside . |
| 22 | They moved stealthily , the switches in their hands grasped like weapons through the rank smell of wild rhubarb and down towards the damp growth by the stream . |
| 23 | The hub of all this activity was found in and around the market place and the Guildhall and down towards the Cathedral . |
| 24 | With a heavy sigh , and not even daring to look at her slim , almost naked form in the mirror , Laura slowly made her way out of the cottage , and down towards the ocean . |
| 25 | She clung to the front of her costume , gritting her teeth as he widened the circle of massage , smoothing the cream over her shoulders and down towards the small of her back . |
| 26 | ‘ Not at all , ’ he murmured , and reached up a strong hand to flick it out , but not before Rachel had noticed how long his fingers were , and how black hairs grew over his wrists and down towards those fingers . |
| 27 | At the back of Mary and down towards where Home Mead . |
| 28 | Confusingly at first , the trail stretched in two directions , back towards the perimeter fence and in towards the driveway . |
| 29 | The pointing finger moved on , away from the grass and over towards the pavement . |
| 30 | He could not go near the lights for the Men would see him ; so he would seek the most darkness — away from the Zoo and over towards the blackness of the Park centre . |