Example sentences of "[vb base] on [adj] side " in BNC.

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1 I 'd slipped out of bed , leaving Margot the launderess and her sister Phoebe gently snoring ( they sleep on either side to keep me warm ) , and crept downstairs to my secret chamber , behind the high table in the Great Hall .
2 Remove and place on one side .
3 Die studies become even more useful when , as often happens , two coins have been struck from the same die on one side but a different one on the other side .
4 In its simplest concept a site would have an optimum width of , say , 70 metres , comprising a 6-metre road , two 2-metre footpaths and plot on either side of 30 metres .
5 And er the fire was underneath this you see in a little grate and you used to open the door and stoke it up and er more often than not it was fired by slack , which was a residue of the coal out of the coal house , you know when you broke your coal up with the lumps the the little sl bits of slack they were all put on one side for the copper fire .
6 Corbett walked over the soft rather damp clay of the cemetery , Ranulf and Maltote on either side .
7 In the main , they are an extension of the vineyards of Cramant , with a few hectares encroaching into the communal borders of Chouilly and Avize on either side .
8 The women stand on one side , in straw hats , skirts and parasols .
9 Two people stand on either side of the bed , facing the patient .
10 [ He ] sits cross-legged on a throne above a great dais while one hundred elite guards stand on either side carrying shields , swords and bows …
11 Two walls are broken by windows , a third is occupied by the fireplace ; a battered electric cooker and an old sink , which looks as if it were last used to dip sheep , stand on either side of another locked and bolted door .
12 Jim Kelly ( left ) and John Paterson ( right ) stand on either side of their workmate , David Mitchell , who retired in September after twenty-seven years as Boilerman .
13 They lie on either side of the spine above the waist .
14 The vineyards of Villers-Allerand lie on either side of the main Épernay to Reims road as it descends from the Montagne on to the plain .
15 The 11th segment is present in the adults of the lower orders where its tergum is represented by the epiproct above the anus ( often fused with the 10th tergum ) , while vestiges of its sternum are seen in the paraprocts which lie on either side of the anus ( Fig. 42 ) .
16 The Anterior Arms of the Tentorium — The invaginations which form these apodemes usually lie on either side of the frontoclypeal sulcus , when the latter is present , and just above the anterior articulations of the mandibles .
17 It was certainly used in medieval times but it is doubtful if it is prehistoric , even though traces of Bronze Age and Iron Age fields lie on either side of it .
18 Because RHS 1 and RHS 2 lie on either side of LHS , we know that the correct rm lies between 12 and 13 per cent .
19 Professor Sewell had a square building erected , open on each side , so that operations , requiring the casting of the patient , could be performed under shelter in any state of the weather' .
20 It was the size of a double garage , open on one side , built of stone and roofed with tiles .
21 It was rumpled , with the impression of their bodies clear on one side and across the middle .
22 Now canals slap on either side , brimming with garbage and dead wood , an old man sleeps in an oilcan next to a garishly decorated lorry , men in vests and wide trousers , grouped playing cards by the light of oil lamps , raise their heads as the car 's headlights sweep into their precarious privacy , and stare at her .
23 Cross road , continue on other side ( no path for 30 yds ) to reach remains of old road ( track covered with prominent strip of heather ) ; turn left on it .
24 The eggs become loosely attached to the wall of the female 's uterus and blood vessels develop on either side of the contact so that the young are able to absorb sustenance from their mother 's blood .
25 But we reckon that in actual fact if you erm do n't do the we just dis discount the billing and collection and the pensions conversions and so on that we will actually get some benefits from the , the , the things that we 've already put in place this year , we reckon we can reduce that overspend on that side of it down to about a hundred and eighty two thousand erm because it 's , it 's nominal paper er transactions in a way .
26 He sits behind a desk and you stand a few feet away with a screw facing you really close on either side .
27 Bet on one side Lu Lu Liverpool and Man U , and every other there 's two year 's time !
28 And let the Bishop Don Hieronymo go on one side of me , and my trusty Gil Diaz on the other , and he shall lead my horse .
29 It 's reversible , using Polartec 100 fleece on one side and a microfibre Pertex shell on the other .
30 Upland masses exist on either side of a central rift valley .
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