Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] towards " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She turns back towards her camp . |
| 2 | In fig. 122 Herakles stands three-quartered , offering the birds ' bodies ( lost ; we know the subject from Pausanias ) to Athena , who sits up on a rock on which her left hand rests , legs three-quartered away from Herakles , but she turns back towards him . |
| 3 | As she gazed intently towards the small group that was her family , a great sadness filled Beth 's heart . |
| 4 | Excited to find she could just make out traces of narrow fields with dividing banks and walls , she ventured further towards a rounded mound which could well have been an Iron Age barrow , and just beyond it she found the standing stone , where she shivered pleasurably , her imagination running riot about the monolith 's precise function in the days when the settlement had been a live , thriving community . |
| 5 | She shook her head as she moved slowly towards him . |
| 6 | She moved past towards her bedroom door , forcing him aside . |
| 7 | She moved easily towards him , and he would have backed away but for the stone wall against his shoulders . |
| 8 | Resolutely , she moved swiftly towards the kitchen . |
| 9 | ‘ Wait ! ’ called out the gentleman , as she moved swiftly towards the door . |
| 10 | Worried , she moved gently towards him as his speech grew ever faster . |
| 11 | Cross ? but why as she walking back towards it ? |
| 12 | Without really thinking where she was going , she headed blindly towards her room . |
| 13 | She was spiteful and unkind , both to Isabel and to her son — until his mother was dead , when she changed dramatically towards Benedict at least . |
| 14 | The wash of waves on the pebbled beach , the crying and calling of the wheeling gulls , the silver chain of sound from a lark above the cliff-top , and , as a final coda , the distant , breathy note of the ferry 's siren as she drew away towards the west . |
| 15 | She sidled cautiously towards the equipment , and perched on the edge of a deep mahogany box . |
| 16 | I shook my head , and with a toss of her spiky white hair she veered away towards Murphy and Hauptmann . |
| 17 | The Renault shot forward and slewed from side to side in the snow as she drove fast towards the gates . |
| 18 | She drove fast towards the clinic , her mood angry . |
| 19 | She twisted contemptuously towards the companionway . |
| 20 | As she came back towards the drawing-room , Robert was waiting in the hall . |
| 21 | Feeling Rune 's eyes on her , she turned enthusiastically towards him , making no attempt to hide her ingenuous pleasure . |
| 22 | She turned slowly towards Brien . |
| 23 | Theda 's eyes lit with sudden hope and she turned eagerly towards her . |
| 24 | She turned blindly towards the steps , running to the top , leaving him to follow on with her bag . |
| 25 | Desperately , she turned back towards the room and tried to apply her mind to more practical matters . |
| 26 | She turned back towards Léonie , with a recomposed face . |
| 27 | She turned back towards the kitchen and the dogs ' suppers . |
| 28 | Automatically she turned back towards her garden , and he followed her . |
| 29 | She turned languidly towards the sound and spoke very distinctly . |
| 30 | Something in her manner must have got through to him , for when she turned abruptly towards the sitting-room without another word he followed her , his face clouding . |