Example sentences of "[adv prt] towards [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 're still continuing to monitor the situation we 're still carrying on inquiries at er at schools we 're going further afield now in case there is some suggestion that she she might be living further afield er towards Worksop or even in towards Derbyshire . |
| 2 | However , the weather is very different to the west of a sinuous line that curves down from a point off the east coast of Japan and then very roughly parallels , a thousand miles out , the outline of Asia — curving in towards Borneo , out over New Guinea , down around the Solomons . |
| 3 | Floats it in towards Kennedy the chance must be here for Ray it 's there and it 's Kennedy . |
| 4 | After a short respite in the lee of Lundy ( one of Phil 's minor ambitions ) we fought our way in towards Clovelly against the rising sea and wind . |
| 5 | The mullet pick up speed and head in towards land cleverly putting us between them and the dolphins . |
| 6 | Needs some help and gets it from Thomson who started this move off and lifted in towards Agnew , Cooper clears it still has n't gone out and er Phillips just prevented it I think going for a corner , yes it 's a throw . |
| 7 | As they entered the kitchen Christopher let out a wail , ducking his head in towards Alan 's body . |
| 8 | If these depressions ( or low pressure areas ) are tracking in towards Ireland rather than taking a more northerly route , then the circulation of wind flowing clockwise ( as it must ) round the depression means that south-easterly winds will be blowing over Shetland from the North Sea and pushing any birds unfortunate enough to be flying to ( or from ) Scandinavia at the time in a westerly direction . |
| 9 | And if you 're coming in towards Oxford City Centre on the A40 , coming in towards the Headington roundabout , you 'll find at the moment that it 's er about a mile and a half to two miles of very slow moving traffic approaching the roundabout itself . |
| 10 | Collimore in the middle do n't forget to take the ball and finally whips it in towards Collimore and Lewis heads it back in that direction and Ormanroyd with an awkward clearance . |
| 11 | Count along towards whoops . |
| 12 | He walked slowly down towards Oxford Street , as if he were walking aimlessly . |
| 13 | Yes ; she had definitely walked down towards Oxford Street ; of course she had . |
| 14 | Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another . |
| 15 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 16 | During each summer 's rainy season , the lake 's waters would spill over its southern rim and slide down towards Florida Bay . |
| 17 | ‘ If ye hold one end o' the skipping-rope ye 'll be able tae stop me from slipping when I work down towards Dick . |
| 18 | Morton maliciously kept silent , watching the photographer 's face fall as they trotted down towards Trafalgar Square and away from Marlborough House . |
| 19 | A crowd gathered and shouted at the police , provoking another baton charge which forced them down towards Butcher Gate and the Bogside . |
| 20 | The geese arrived with a bow wave that surged over the nomes ' feet , and arched their necks down towards Shrub . |
| 21 | As we dropped down towards Gunnerside , rabbits exploded in all directions and Bill had so many to choose from he lay down confused , unable to make his mind up , looking at us pitifully as though we could make up his mind for him . |
| 22 | I strolled down towards Greenwich Village , sat in the dismal gray square outside the university . |
| 23 | And I was talking , cos I walked along , I walked down towards Twickenham , but I walked to way you go to when I went straight down to Twickenham . |
| 24 | It swooped down towards Risborough and he managed to control it enough to bring it into a field |
| 25 | On a hill looking down towards Spain Roland meets his end ; and , although his death is not the end of the poem , it is its climax , and it enshrines almost all that is really great in it . |
| 26 | Down towards Poole ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ( a ) Preston Capes An ironstone village , with its church on the hill looking down towards Fawsley . |
| 29 | And these this is er a private car going along the road about fifty miles an hour going down towards Dover . |
| 30 | The partisans showed great courage , but some of them had to withdraw from the Parma Apennines down towards Tuscany . |