Example sentences of "from the side " in BNC.

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1 After a minute or two the Asian suddenly slid out from the side of the big curtains and then stopped , a tray of drinks and ice creams round his neck .
2 Some boards had been torn from the side and its black paint of tar had turned pale .
3 for just that reason Seljalandsfoss is best viewed from the side , unlike most other waterfalls .
4 The smaller bridges offered just a single plank of wood , too narrow to cycle across and too narrow to push the bike from the side .
5 There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him .
6 I can see this light shining from the side , so I squeeze through a couple of trolleys to see if I can get out that way .
7 In addition to this , stores may be dropped as ‘ door bundles ’ from the side doors .
8 From the side the construction resembles a first world war tank .
9 The Midlands will make one change against the South-West at Bath , recalling the England hooker Brian Moore , who has twice withdrawn from the side late on with a twisted knee .
10 Altogether the England manager has made four changes from the side that drew with Italy at Wembley a month ago .
11 Vehicles started up again and a familiar voice shouted to him from the side of the truck .
12 It is perfectly clear that long before the procession came into sight , long before the procession had formed , these people in the Markets in their desire to be offended had come down from the side streets and had taken great trouble to he offended , and not only were prepared to be offended but were prepared to throw missiles , stones and other weapons …
13 We ‘ flew ’ huge flags and posters one metre in from the side walls , reaching to some two metres above the ground .
14 Luton ( 20th ) should be unchanged from the side who beat Wimbledon last week , with Kamara recovered from a back injury .
15 Without warning , a huge biplane burst from the side of a cloud-mountain , scattering castles and crags in puffs and wisps of smoke , its shadow gliding ahead , rising and falling as it sped across the wide landscape of cloud .
16 The view shown is from the side .
17 ‘ He told me it would be easier to get to the underground railway from the side street .
18 There is a very large spinning loft here and there was a spinning gallery projecting from the side of it .
19 ‘ Not in November , ’ Robert growled from the side table where he liked to carve the meat himself .
20 Only a few feet from the side of the ship a sucking swirl dimpled the water ominously .
21 It was not unusual for a direct appeal to be made in a memorial text to casual passers-by , or for visually impressive and even amusing monuments to command attention from the side of a road .
22 The lower arms , seen from the side , are straight .
23 The group to jump , known as a stick , hooked up and shuffled in a line to exit from the side door .
24 When the patient is lying on his back , his hemiplegic side should be away from the side wall .
25 If he drools or loses food from the side of his mouth , you should help him to dab his mouth firmly with a folded napkin or handkerchief .
26 This was as elementary as his lesson to Hoomey : from the side of the bath he put his foot on the back of Jazz 's head as he came to the side , and stepped in , taking Jazz 's head with him , forcing in abrupt and most accomplished somersault .
27 Psst ! ’ then , ‘ Miss ! ’ and to see a young man stepping from the side of the coalhouse where he had evidently been waiting .
28 ‘ How do you know it was n't , Liam ? ’ called out Tim from the side bar .
29 And yards out from the farther side of the-marsh , too far from the side to be even touched by hand , was a chestnut pony , trapped nearly up to his flanks in the quicksilver morass helpless and desperate .
30 Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks .
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