Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | The risks of antagonising China , if he did support such initiatives , were apparently highlighted by the Chinese side 's emphasis on " political issues " at high-level Sino-British talks on July 3-6 on Hong Kong 's disputed new airport project [ see p. 38340 ] . |
| 2 | As soon as we got there , I started yelling for I was really scared , thought I should drown , but the grown-ups just laughed and off we slid , down the steep slope to hit the water with a mighty splash , then gently floated to the other side of the pool to disembark . |
| 3 | John Heminges said they were dark , cruel plays , and that Will was only looking at the black side of people . |
| 4 | Unless she 's been fiddling the books — and my accountant does n't think so — the profits your Miss Philimore has been turning in seem on the low side for a site like that . |
| 5 | Why , her employer wished to know , were the Turkish women all accommodated on the left-hand side of the quarter-deck ? |
| 6 | The manic international campaign to prevent publication of Peter Wright 's Spycatcher advertised to the world an obsession with secrecy that seemed better suited to the other side of the Iron Curtain . |
| 7 | He was glad because — well , not having kids before , he only thought about the nice side of being a dad , he did n't think about the bad side . |
| 8 | If this advice is ignored , the torque of the seven-foot-diameter propeller , and the airflow it sends corkscrewing down the fuselage and acting on the large fin , causes the relatively light 207 to suddenly aim for the left-hand side of the runway . |
| 9 | Johnny had another couple of seasons as a player , but he retired after a nasty fractured cheekbone and broken jaw early in 1962–63 , only to turn to the commercial side of the game and build a new and successful career there . |
| 10 | I was very shaken I was only sitting on the other side of the wall . |
| 11 | Ronan 's portrayal of a faintly mad Irish family is just barbed enough to stay on the tougher side of sentimental , his narrative of a friendship 's slow demise uncomfortably convincing . |
| 12 | If Gunnell herself has cashed in , she 's not been so blatant or obviously motivated by the financial side as other athletes . |
| 13 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 14 | As we have seen , this optimism is already justified on the theoretical side , and this is providing a fruitful stimulus to the experimentalists . |
| 15 | I also think it 's important that people have this sort of emotional side of it taught to them as well , you 're often taught like the straight , you know , the wee sperm and the wee egg come together and you get a baby , but you do n't , not taught about the emotional side of it a lot |
| 16 | He just moved to the other side of the bed , and lay on his back . |
| 17 | She had desperately scrambled at the shiny sides of the toilet-bowl as she slid into the water but to no avail . |
| 18 | Excavations have been largely confined to the western side , revealing an earth rampart made up of material from at least one contemporary ditch to the west . |
| 19 | You can also see that the maria are largely confined to the near side . |
| 20 | Lord Boyd-Carpenter said that criticism was unhappily ‘ not confined to the other side ’ and it would be many years before the scheme would bear fruit . |
| 21 | It is like a large hemming stitch and must not show on the right side ( fig. 17 ) . |
| 22 | Sunrise , which filters a wonderful golden hue upon the shell of the architecture , is perhaps best shot from the far side of the harbour , from Farm Grove , almost at the end of Mrs. Macquaries Point . |
| 23 | Sunrise , which filters a wonderful golden hue upon the shell of the architecture , is perhaps best shot from the far side of the harbour , from Farm Cove , almost at the end of Mrs Macquaries Point . |
| 24 | Since our history books are still largely written from the liberal side we are amazed to find Wordsworth on the side of the aristocracy and against the rising hopes of the people ; as he himself put it : ‘ I can not but be of opinion that the feudal power yet surviving in England is eminently serviceable in counteracting the popular tendency to reform . ’ |
| 25 | The programme is largely to do with the perceptual side of thinking . |
| 26 | Normally , the owner must take the cassette out of the machine by hand , and flip it over to record on the other side . |
| 27 | Hirst , who scored in his second appearance on the 1991 tour of Australasia , has not played for the senior side since that Wembley game . |
| 28 | The term normally appears on the right-hand side in place of . |
| 29 | If we just talked about the technical side of music , it would be a very short interview . |
| 30 | A public fuss about sovereignty , the government reckons , might inflame feelings even more and touch off really ugly incidents , maybe bloodshed , in an area already smarting from the harsher side of unity , collapsing firms and soaring unemployment . |