Example sentences of "as he [verb] towards " in BNC.
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| 31 | Vera had started to climax again as she saw Vashinov pump away at the young man , his breathing rapid as he reached towards his orgasm . |
| 32 | Bernice caught up with him as he veered towards the broad staircase . |
| 33 | ‘ Touch nothing ’ , he shouted as he sped towards the police station . |
| 34 | He yelled something as he ran/hobbled towards a parked sports car , but I just sat there hypnotized . |
| 35 | He saw a sowar hit as he spurred towards the Residency . |
| 36 | He saw Mary , standing by the doorway , looking at him directly as he rode towards her , unflinching in her look at this stranger whose jingling tackle whinnied against the soft crush of the accustomed evening sounds of the valley , the sun behind him and he , as he drew near , as intent on her . |
| 37 | I exchanged a greeting with a Frenchman of No. 4 Commando as he walked towards me . |
| 38 | Carew watched him as he walked towards the gate-lodge . |
| 39 | As he walked towards the towering ship , he mused over his good fortune . |
| 40 | She turned her head , saw him tether his horse at the edge of the wood , watched him as he walked towards her . |
| 41 | A tatami , a triple-woven rush mat , had been placed on the sand , and as he walked towards it Alexei saw that the slave had raked over his footprints as he had departed , leaving the surface smooth and even . |
| 42 | Remembering his own thoughts as he walked towards the door last night , not knowing it was Laura , thinking it was Alexandra and feeling his freewheeling lifestyle threatened , his macho image slightly dented , he realized he must be mad . |
| 43 | He walked away to the desk , collecting his key , and as he walked towards the lifts he flicked a quick glance back to the girl who 'd been brought up as his daughter . |
| 44 | A spokesman for Cleveland Fire Brigade said : ‘ The cloth over the chip pan caught fire and as he walked towards the door cold air blew the fat up his arms . ’ |
| 45 | IF TASMANIA COULD BE REGARDED as a microcosm of what to expect from the great continent of Australia , Gould 's exhilaration as he sailed towards Sydney could not , understandably , have been higher . |
| 46 | The fine lines of Cley 's face could be studied as he gazed towards the ceiling before speaking again . |
| 47 | She 's been seeing her therapist again , thought Henry , as he stumbled towards the Passat . |
| 48 | Now , as he stumbled towards the window of his room , he recognized that resentment lay behind his disbelief : resentment that his friendship with Dysart might have an origin he had never dreamed of ; that , in lending him a helping hand whenever he could , Dysart had merely been slumming . |
| 49 | A regular blood , with his fine clothes , holding his nose as he leaned towards the cocks . |
| 50 | As he leaned towards her she instinctively recoiled , colouring furiously as he smiled . |
| 51 | She shook her head slowly , her eyes closing again as he bent towards her and covered her lips with his own . |
| 52 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she whispered eagerly , as he bent towards her . |
| 53 | He lifts his head , and as he looks towards camera the light catches his monocle and he |
| 54 | Otley shouted as he raced towards the bridge . |
| 55 | ‘ And vice versa , ’ said David Arrowsmith as he scrambled towards her . |
| 56 | Thus a rider will be working against almost 300kg as he hurtles towards a corner . |
| 57 | The monster , coming forward , knocked him out of the way with one sweep of an arm as he marched towards the prone figure of his creator . |
| 58 | Increasingly during the next fifteen years the triangle formed by Swansea , Pontardulais , and Ammanford — with the fr owning eminence of Carreg Cennen Castle in the distance — provided him with a retreat and a source of healing as he faltered towards his final realization as a poet . |
| 59 | She nodded curtly as he padded towards a door on the far wall . |
| 60 | He was still going well enough , but then , as he turned towards the stands for the last time , a doubt began to nibble , and then to gnaw , Was he losing his momentum ? |