Example sentences of "[conj] come towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way red-necked phalaropes at last show themselves , tame , almost friendly birds that come towards the camera . |
| 2 | The plane bumped to a halt , the engine coughed and died , and two figures in leather flying helmets swung out of the open cockpit and came towards them arm in arm . |
| 3 | As relief spread to pure pleasure she waved and came towards him across the yard like a young girl . |
| 4 | Judi gently shrugged free of her attendants , and came towards her . |
| 5 | The man rose and came towards them . |
| 6 | He got up from his crouching position slowly , as if his body was hampered by a heavy weight , and came towards her . |
| 7 | As Peter and James came in , she threw down the magazine she was reading , stood up and came towards them . |
| 8 | She rose and came towards him shyly . |
| 9 | Rupert of Hentzau was with them , and when he saw us , he turned his horse and came towards us . |
| 10 | A grey thing came out from behind the tree and came towards me . |
| 11 | She saw Alexei , paused and smiled , and then descended the few steps and came towards him . |
| 12 | As we listened a cow rounded a rocky outcrop and came towards us . |
| 13 | At five am , the harassed doctor appeared and came towards them slowly . |
| 14 | Rising to his feet , he picked up the mug and came towards her . |
| 15 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 16 | The approaching footsteps ran lightly to the top of the stairs and came towards them . |
| 17 | A figure climbed on to the roof and came towards them . |
| 18 | He stood and came towards her . |
| 19 | Detective Inspector Kersey got out of one of the cars and came towards him . |
| 20 | He shoved something into his pocket and came towards her . |
| 21 | Ruth smiled as he swept the tea-towel from his shoulder , flung it down and came towards her . |
| 22 | You must believe me when I tell you that they 're out there on the plain somewhere and coming towards us . |
| 23 | And when Rosa heard Caterina getting up next door , and coming towards the kitchen , she gave Sabina another hard pinch on the thin part of her arm , just to make sure she knew there was n't to be another word . |
| 24 | Although it 's perhaps a totally imaginary fox , he 's imagining the fox walking through the wood and coming towards his window . |
| 25 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 26 | She did not get up and come towards him as he got out , but waited until he had crossed the grass to sit down beside her on the wooden seat . |
| 27 | Despite the infectious music and Pierre Le Rue 's exhortations to the audience to rise from their seats and come towards the stage , precious few did so . |
| 28 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |