Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it is a close-run thing in any one of these seats , it could make the difference between a win or a lose for one side or the other . ’ |
| 2 | One of the things that makes war so fascinating to its students and so frustrating to its participants is that in a moment of supreme crisis it is rarely given for one side , obsessed by its own difficulties , to see just how bad things are in the enemy camp . |
| 3 | If they fought for one side or the other , Standard Oil would be fighting Standard Oil . |
| 4 | In this sense , for example , the employment relationship was visualised by Goodrich ( 1975 ) in his classic study of the British mining industry in terms of a ‘ frontier of control ’ , the boundaries of which continually shift as one side or the other gains ascendancy . |
| 5 | Vine Street itself appeared to be a short cul-de-sac that was hardly more than an alley , and mostly dominated along one side by the towering rear facade of some big hotel . |
| 6 | She jumped out and ran the few feet to where a man was struggling out of his jeep , which had tipped onto one side with the two left wheels suspended above the open gully . |
| 7 | As the sermon wore on and he became more and more excited , he began to jump from one side , first to the middle and , by the time he was in full verbal flight , he managed to leap the entire length of the pulpit . |
| 8 | The profile of the street remains unchanged , but parking takes the form of stretches of right-angle and alongside parking , alternating from one side of the road to the other every 50 metres or so . |
| 9 | The area around Perry Barr Wharf has several industrial areas , alternating from one side of the canal to the other . |
| 10 | At the least they should be planted no wider than two abreast where each plant can be approached from one side . |
| 11 | From the clifftop he watched the small figure of Detective Furness in his red anorak on the saddle below , twisting from one side to another as he strained his eyes against the bright sunlight to search for his charge . |
| 12 | You would imagine Sarah does more than enough to keep herself fit by jetting from one side of the world to the other frequently . |
| 13 | 1906 is probably best remembered for the great earthquake in San Francisco , which resulted in fire and general destruction of the city ; also the Simplon tunnel through the Alps was completed , allowing railway traffic to pass from one side of that range of mountains , to the other . |
| 14 | The larger , bolder birds such as magpies , crows and jackdaws were searching for food on the fairways — on one occasion a golf ball landed near to a crow who nonchalantly moved to one side to avoid the missile . |
| 15 | Protesting , Geoffrey moved to one side as Bridget lowered herself to the ground . |
| 16 | I moved to one side with Jamie helping me and went down on my hands and knees on a comparatively clean part of the concrete where the oil stains looked old . |
| 17 | She moved to one side and so did Naylor . |
| 18 | The dispenser hummed as the null-grav units tried to compensate , and the machine juddered to one side . |
| 19 | I let my head fall to one side , my cheek against the cool damp sand . |
| 20 | An environmental health officer from Liverpool City Council visited the company 's bakery in Lorenzo Drive , West Derby , and found insects could get into the building through ‘ voids ’ around the pipework , and an insect screen had been nudged to one side . |
| 21 | It was only sometimes that I 'd wake and find Bernard snoring on one side of me and Uncle Bill giving an occasional snort on the other . |
| 22 | There were no houses in sight : the wooded mountain rose on one side of the old railway track and fell steeply away on the other . |
| 23 | The question of exactly which left handers have speech located on one side of the brain or the other and which of them have speech represented bilaterally can not yet be answered unequivocally . |
| 24 | Also , there is a 14 amino acids long putative alpha helical region at positions 328 to 341 containing 8 alanine residues , 6 of which would be located on one side of the putative alpha helix . |
| 25 | The peaks of these complexes are successively located on one side of the baseline and then on the other , and this positive then negative polarity in the frontal plane of the ECG creates the typical twisting-about-a-point appearance ( fig 1 ) . |
| 26 | What happens when you ‘ plate ’ is that you get the main yarn appearing on one side of the fabric and the plating yarn on the other side . |
| 27 | The association with a traditional barn incorporating porches has been skilfully exploited in order to broaden the width of the building at its centre so that an enclosed entrance porch and a generous ‘ dog-leg ’ staircase , giving access to the first floor , could be included on one side , while the equivalent projection on the west side houses an oriel window serving the dining-room which gives a commanding view over the Cherwell Valley . |
| 28 | In between these two extremes comes the large mass of honourable and intelligent outdoor enthusiasts who listen to the frothings and bayings back and forth between the two factions with alarm , but without the detailed information from both sides which would enable them freely and democratically to make up their own minds , and if necessary bring their concerted pressure to bear on one side or the other to desist . |
| 29 | right the royal personage stands to one side and smiles so you know we could could come in for this . |
| 30 | The Mamur Zapt stands on one side of you , the Man on the other . |