Example sentences of "[adv] at the sides " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do 20 walking jogs on the spot , raising your arms up and down at the sides . |
| 2 | Clip toenails straight across — never cut too far down at the sides as this leads to ingrowing toenails . |
| 3 | Do not file nails too far down at the sides . |
| 4 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 5 | The shape of the foam is designed to allow maximum arm and shoulder movement and so is cut narrow at the top and well down at the sides . |
| 6 | Fabrics with horizontal patterns will also give the impression of width , and curtains that are draped back will help to break the vertical line that would otherwise be formed by curtains which hang straight down at the sides . |
| 7 | I slapped gently at the sides of her face , without much success , while Miss Hinkle produced a glass of water . |
| 8 | Insects that fly in at the sides encounter a vertical baffle of netting that divides the trap along its axis , and tend to fly or clamber to the highest point of the baffle where the only way out is into a collecting jar . |
| 9 | Queen Elizabeth 's vault in Westminster Abbey was examined in 1868 by Dean Stanley : ‘ There was no disorder or decay , except that the centring wood had fallen over the head of Elizabeth 's coffin , and that the wood case had crumbled away at the sides , and had drawn away part of the decaying lid . ’ |
| 10 | Dave did n't bother to shave until the evenings , and Colin 's shoes had been coming away at the sides for weeks . |
| 11 | If fixing outside the recess , you will need to add a minimum of 10cm ( 4in ) to the width of the reveal to prevent light seeping through at the sides of the blind . |
| 12 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 13 | A hole had been dug for the coffin , next to the place where Eileen had been buried only two short years ago , and boards propped the soil up at the sides . |
| 14 | His small elbows stuck out at the sides as he cut and ate food in a frenzy . |
| 15 | ‘ Cream cakes … with all the cream oozing out at the sides . |
| 16 | It seems funny having it going out at the sides cos I always had it |
| 17 | Her hair , which looked as if it had been inexpertly permed , was pulled back at the sides but frizzed over the high forehead in the poodle-like fashion of an Edwardian . |
| 18 | The obvious window treatments in traditional dining rooms are curtains on rods , or under pelmets , or hung from various headings , tied back at the sides , and used with roller , Roman or festoon blinds if you wanted to cut a particular dash . |
| 19 | What she did see was hair the colour of rich , ruby port wine , swept up , somehow , from the forehead and hanging past her shoulders in a heavy , shining mass that curled under at the sides and bottom like a long page-boy bob . |
| 20 | Her red lipstick was smudged and she had n't bothered to pin up her hair properly at the sides . |