Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | I smile at Ma and my sister as I totter towards the compost heap beyond the garden shed . |
| 2 | As I looked towards the right , however , along the other widespread arm of the building , something materialized there like a stain : light towards the dead dull end of the electromagnetic spectrum . |
| 3 | Bear with me for a moment more as I come towards it , while I read you yet more lines from another moment of the portrait , and keep in mind , if you will , from a moment ago , Stephen 's contemptuous review of the holders of wealth and power in Ireland . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ They were shooting in all directions but as I drove towards them on my tractor they started to run . |
| 5 | As I proceeded towards the doors , I realized M. Dupont was following me . |
| 6 | The voice belonged to George , he had drawn up on the other side of the road , and as I walked towards him his voice was getting impatient . |
| 7 | Pavements gleamed , as I walked towards the sunset , along a narrow street of dark , shabby houses . |
| 8 | I had n't even noticed the pickets and I can only presume that they had parted before me as I walked towards them as they still do today . |
| 9 | I mused on Toby 's story as I walked towards the clubhouse and so intent was I on my thoughts that I nearly knocked over Sally Drayton as I passed the PGA hut . |
| 10 | As I walked towards it , I glanced at the leader board and saw that his client was doing his stuff too — he was two under after five holes . |
| 11 | One of them came to see me , and as I walked towards him across the table , he put on his glasses . |
| 12 | As I walked towards the hut , I saw that someone had certainly been using it . |
| 13 | Very little had changed in the village street but , as I walked towards her door , I saw smoke coming from the garden . |
| 14 | It was as I got towards the end that I began to look more towards his future . |
| 15 | As I ran towards him , Mr Broadhurst smiled . |
| 16 | It is a warm and gentle day as I walk towards the wood that beckons me , cool and friendly . |
| 17 | I soon noticed myself rapidly approaching a fallen tree over the surface of the river and as I rushed towards it I clung on to it for dear life . |
| 18 | They must have been watching from a hill-top as I rode towards them because suddenly I was surrounded by a company of about 40 soldiers , all aged between 17 and 18 years . |
| 19 | The soft , sweet sounds of the piano dropped round me , intoxicating me and compelling me to follow as I drifted towards the sound like a child of Hamelin . |
| 20 | I called over my shoulder as I trotted towards the car . |
| 21 | As I headed towards shelter , I glanced south , where the broad shoulders of a mountain — its name is Mont Salève — stood against the troubled sky . |
| 22 | And in the dark , when we lay beneath a single sheet and I gave off a Calabrian sweat , when the middle stretch of the night was shorter but still hard to get through — then , as I turned towards that loose S beside me , she would , with a soft murmur , try to lift the lost hair from the back of her neck . |
| 23 | Reciprocity of movement recognises that as I move towards A , A moves towards me . |
| 24 | But I had to recognise that there have only been a couple of traumas in ten years and the trouble rate is likely to hot up as I move towards 40 . |
| 25 | Another sensor high in one corner glows red as I move towards the foot of the stairs . |
| 26 | A glorious red butterfly with sapphire blue eyes on its wingtips fluttered and curtsied in front of me , moorland sheep scuttled reluctantly off the track as I ploughed towards them and a group of walkers cursed as they struggled up the bank . |
| 27 | The tension of the piece is based on its difference in elevation ; on the fact that one element reads as a horizontal volume , its top plane clearly below eye level , whereas the other rises vertically above your eye level as you walk towards it . |
| 28 | You hold the log out in front of you as you walk towards the bed . |
| 29 | On your right as you go towards the gate , is a curiosity . |
| 30 | Mine does n't have Lace Sensors on it , although I do have one guitar with those on ; my model has pickups just like on the Stevie Ray Vaughan one , and they become a little more powerful as you go towards the bridge . |