Object

• wind: Friday produced a veering easterly wind in Hayling Bay in excess of 12 knots allowing a triangular course with unrestricted pumping.

• round: Then, after tea, the wind veers round, and you have to pull hard in its teeth all the way home.

Preposition: on

• side: The natural skeptic in me veered on the side of caution.

Preposition: towards

• side: Yes folks, those of you whose tastes veer toward the dark side are well catered for, especially in the top-floor leather bars.

Preposition: into

• territory: While some missions occasionally veer into more linear territory, you're always free to approach the levels exactly the way you wish.

Adjective complement

• close: At their worst, they can veer dangerously close to the wrong side of self-indulgence.

Modifying Another Word

• wildly: We have only subtext, a fragile thread of thought that veers wildly from line to line.

• dangerously: Download Mi les Away Blatant pop music: a cheery song that veers dangerously close to heavy metal territory.

• sharply: Canada also veered sharply to the right during the eighties.

• away: By nature, we're like shopping trolleys - inclined to veer away from the straight line of God's revealed will.

• occasionally: At their best with these blissed-out dance numbers, NSE do occasionally veer off course.

• suddenly: Why she should have suddenly veered from her course will probably never be known.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: We don't, we veer off to the left.

• away: They will panic and veer away from your sudden move.

Followed by a transitive particle

• off: I often veer off the Holloway Road, take the pretty route.

Particle object: off_obj

• runway: For example, a passenger aircraft arriving at Heathrow airport veered off the runway onto the grass.

• road: One recent accident occured when a car veered off the road and crashed into a lorry parked in a layby.

• track: The 36-year-old had been driving a jet-powered Vampire dragster when it veered off the track at Elvington airfield, near York, in September.

Preposition: in

• direction: It never veers too far in any direction or falls back on cliche.

Preposition: from

• path: Veering from the standard recruitment path doesn't necessarily mean losing out.