Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | And working at the Shakespeare School of English does n't exactly hinder me in that direction . |
| 2 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 3 | Suddenly Holden turned his machine-gun on the onlookers and fired , scattering them in all directions and scaring them to death even though he was only firing blanks . |
| 4 | I know she is going to need permanent care very soon — everyone 's urging me in that direction . |
| 5 | This is a statement of law as it should be , rather than as it is , but there is nothing to stop the courts developing it in this direction . |
| 6 | These two lines will never meet , no matter how much you extend them in either direction . |
| 7 | The pool was large for a private one , lying at the bottom of a vast expanse of immaculate lawn and surrounded by a high yew hedge which effectively hid it from all directions ( unless you were on a horse or a double-decker bus ) . |
| 8 | You can tilt it in any direction , and measure the genetic distance , and hence the minimum evolution time , between any point on the plane and any other ( annoyingly , that is not quite true on the page , because the computer 's printer distorts proportions , but this effect is too trivial to make a fuss about , although it does mean that you will get slightly the wrong answer if you simply count blips on the scale ) . |
| 9 | Carl had no time for these , or possibly our parents failed him by not encouraging him in that direction . |
| 10 | But what if your wishful purpose is not taking you in this direction ? |
| 11 | This is n't the way that the current system reasons , and I would certainly like to take the current system and push it in this direction of being more expert in a human sense . |
| 12 | During Frankfurt , which ATP like to call the World Championships , even though to call the winner there the world champion would instantly devalue the status of the top player in their world rankings , ( irrespective of whether the ITF 's official World Champion Panel makes the same choice or not ) signs were bombarding us from all directions . |
| 13 | Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction . |
| 14 | As she did one of the English players danced across the screen and up the sideline , outwitting several of the Moroccan side who tackled him from all directions . |
| 15 | Its seven thousand spines then defend it in all directions . |