Example sentences of "down [prep] the [adj] side of " in BNC.

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1 He sat down on the far side of the room and I caught only a brief view of him through the dancers , but it was undoubtedly Ralph Pike still at large .
2 She sat down on the other side of the desk .
3 A hundred yards down on the other side of the road a knot of men were gathered .
4 ‘ I 've a hunch , ’ he said , putting the heavy volume down on the other side of the board to the knives and the water .
5 By the light of the fires he could see Paul already sitting cross-legged on a buffalo skin by the pholy , and he sank gratefully down on the other side of him .
6 She dropped down on the other side of the sweetheart plant from Rain , bowed her head , rested her right hand lightly on the keys , shut her eyes tight and concentrated .
7 Clinging to this assurance , Isabel listened to the rain beating down on the other side of the wall and refused to think about her peculiar reactions to fitzAlan any longer .
8 Turn right into er what is a very busy er road in any event at that time but that the dangers is that many drivers are becoming impatient with waiting their turn in the queue and what they 're doing is driving down on the wrong side of the road in order to utilise a little back road that 's a service road which runs alongside road and leads into Nightingale avenue .
9 He went back to the girl , sat down on the opposite side of the desk and gave a brisk nod .
10 Six weeks later , CT scanning showed a bulky pancreas and a large pseudocyst of the lesser sac , with fluid tracked down on the left side of the retroperitoneum in the anterior compartment , anterior to Gerota 's fascia as far as the left iliac dossa .
11 Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to .
12 He could hear her barking and looked down over the steep side of the embankment to the bottom of the trees .
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