Example sentences of "i [verb] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was as I got towards the end that I began to look more towards his future . |
| 3 | Once core , I grow towards husk |
| 4 | Thoughts about how the spectacles would appear to me if I moved towards them leftwards must be related in the correct way to thoughts about how they would look if I moved above them to the right ; thoughts about their being artefacts must be related to thoughts about their not existing before a certain time or not coming into existence in the kitchen as the kettle boils . |
| 5 | Of course , this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen , my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table , drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner ; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary . |
| 6 | ‘ Sharpe was only about 15 yards away when I moved towards him and he started running , ’ PC Pounder told magistrates at Hebburn , Tyne and Wear . |
| 7 | In front of me I could see the dark shape of a summer-house and I moved towards it . |
| 8 | In unthinking annoyance I moved towards her , one of the Gharrgoyles saw my and pointed , and Gharr looked my way . |
| 9 | Very carefully and quietly I moved towards the house . |
| 10 | I moved towards her and sat on the bed and put an arm round her . |
| 11 | I wandered towards the open country and the hills . |
| 12 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 13 | As soon as the morning lessons were over and I had snatched a quick lunch I headed towards the village with my bag . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | First you hold your glass towards me — and I mine towards you . ’ |
| 16 | I toppled towards them and smiled . |
| 17 | I yearned towards the mystical earnestness which saw through the outer facing of existence in a oneness and blinding intensity which went direct to some essence of being . |
| 18 | Will I mellow towards the idea of marriage as I get older ? |
| 19 | It is a warm and gentle day as I walk towards the wood that beckons me , cool and friendly . |
| 20 | I walk towards the sea and never quite come to it . |
| 21 | I walk towards her with my knees trembling . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ They were shooting in all directions but as I drove towards them on my tractor they started to run . |
| 23 | I accelerated towards her , At the same moment , she saw us and darted towards an alley . |
| 24 | - I look towards these preparations for the sun , |
| 25 | When I look towards the Merchiston Castle here , I wonder what John Napier who lived here from 1550 to 1627 would have said could he see us today . |
| 26 | I nodded towards the door behind the fence . |
| 27 | I nodded towards the black murk of cloud that blocked off the valley and all but the lower slopes of the mountains . |
| 28 | I nodded towards the bedchamber which I could glimpse through a half open door . |
| 29 | ‘ I run towards Carnelian , ’ Meh'Lindi related . |
| 30 | I called over my shoulder as I trotted towards the car . |