Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the other side " in BNC.
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| 1 | They aimed to pass over to the other side of the stockade through the gap between one section and the other , where the bridge spanned the stream . |
| 2 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 3 | He moved over to the other side of the office and had begun searching through a well-stocked bookshelf when the phone on his desk rang close by Folly 's hand . |
| 4 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 5 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 6 | She moved around to the other side of the desk . |
| 7 | And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines . |
| 8 | As for cutting it away , it was obvious that to wander about on the other side of the rampart was to invite certain death . |
| 9 | He was about to apologize , remembered the microphone , then moved round to the other side of the desk and sat down . |
| 10 | If one of these groups were to go over to the other side — as the army did in Romania — the balance of forces would be altered . |
| 11 | ‘ Ah ! ’ she says , and then goes over to the other side of the shop . |
| 12 | The trouble was that the salt had permeated the walls and penetrated through to the other side , where beads of moisture coming through the plaster accounted for the detachment of the wallpaper , which by this time was hanging loose in a depressing and derelict manner . |
| 13 | The Peugeot was pushed on to the other side of the road and was in collision with a Sierra driven by Leslie Green , of Runcorn , Cheshire , who was travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Erm that later on , the signal box that used to be here was moved over to the other side , that 's all that 's there for . |
| 16 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 17 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
| 18 | If he hits one then he bounds about inside the unit , bouncing from foe to foe , until he spins out of the other side , leaving the enemy completely devastated . |
| 19 | But at last she came out on the other side and ran after them as before , calling out , " Hoo ! |
| 20 | They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars . |
| 21 | Society is not hostile , it passes by on the other side . |
| 22 | Raven passes by on the other side of the street , but he do n't notice us . |
| 23 | He passes by on the other side of the road and once he 's well past I pop up to watch him through the rear window . |
| 24 | I was all for passing by on the other side of the road , but Buffy would n't let it drop . |
| 25 | Yeah I know if you 'd have moved round to the other side that would have been in the shadow so you would n't have got those nice bright colours . |
| 26 | In reality this may not be the case : the explanation could simply be that the camera position for the second shot has been shifted over to the other side of the path . |
| 27 | The voice belonged to George , he had drawn up on the other side of the road , and as I walked towards him his voice was getting impatient . |
| 28 | Jim Perrin , interviewing the climber John Gill , refers to how some hypnagogic states have their parallels in situations of action and describes how , on easy routes , Gill ‘ could feel himself weaving in and out of the rock , peering out from the other side of its surface ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 30 | For instance , young and untrained sheepdogs will often spontaneously run round to the other side of a flock of sheep and try to drive them towards the shepherd . |