Example sentences of "[verb] off towards the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenna snapped , spinning away and storming off towards the house . |
| 2 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |
| 3 | Noel Cooper was lifted aboard : he had seen nothing of Norman Teacher since the Lt-Cmdr swam off towards the shore . |
| 4 | He 'll need a lot of breath for this lengthy stint , which heads off towards the new year . |
| 5 | There 's no specific area that I can lay my finger on to explain why West Indian kids underachieve … what is inevitable is that a lot of West Indian children particularly the bright ones will do fairly well up to either the beginning or the middle of the fourth year , and for some peculiar reason their progress will fall off towards the end of the fifth year . |
| 6 | The mass of people of all classes of society , except for the Earl 's house guests , moved off towards the exits , and a sorry sight they were . |
| 7 | With a look of resignation , he removed his hand , took his glass from Donal , and , that fascinating little indent beside his mouth once more in evidence , he moved off towards the beckoning Dolores . |
| 8 | The doors slammed shut and the grey van drove off towards the exit , rejoining the northward rush of motorway traffic . |
| 9 | The car drove off towards the seafront , the same direction in which the woman 's attackers fled . |
| 10 | The railway veered off towards the mine . |
| 11 | The traveller strolled off towards the juggernaut . |
| 12 | Another rustle followed before a glossy blackbird hopped out and made off towards the parkland . |
| 13 | Arm in arm they made off towards the kitchen-garden . |
| 14 | Cornelius put his arm around his friend 's shoulder and the two gazed off towards the lands of the east , wondering once more what the fates held in store for them . |
| 15 | Satisfied , Felicity loped off towards the loo . |
| 16 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 17 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |
| 18 | I could n't wait to zoom off towards the seacat to go to France , but in 5 hours I would be . |
| 19 | He stalked off towards the camp 's edge where a huge band of his brothers waited . |
| 20 | That did n't stop my old man pocketing the money , touching his cap and then heading off towards the Black Bull . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , he shuffled off towards the tube station and Chancery Lane . |
| 22 | As we walked off towards the car park , a woman 's voice shouted my name . |
| 23 | And then with a final glance to either side he turned and walked off towards the main gate . |
| 24 | Descending the last few stairs , she turned on her elegantly shod heel , and walked off towards the kitchen . |
| 25 | After five hours ( feeling a bit over-exposed ) parked on the tarmac , flying off towards the Gulf was an appealing prospect . |
| 26 | For example writers usually form the beginnings of words reasonably well , but often this tails off towards the ends of words . |
| 27 | Taking his towelling bath robe out of his suitcase and one of the rugs from the back of the car , they set off towards the cliff . |
| 28 | After hearing pro-Yeltsin and anti-Gorbachev speeches they set off towards the Kremlin down Tverskaya ( formerly Gorky Street ) , Moscow 's main thoroughfare . |
| 29 | However , this began to trail off towards the end of June due to outside distractions — Wimbledon tennis and International cricket . |
| 30 | Above Thwaite the Pennine Way branches off towards the right , behind the intake wall , while a signpost to the left reads " Bridleway to Keld " . |