Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [adj] sides " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a clear day there are magnificent views from all along this road as well as from the summit , and you can look down on all sides of the island , even to Porto Santo . |
| 2 | Press the rice into the tin , cover it with foil and press down on all sides until it is compressed . |
| 3 | The whole mountain chain originated from this cleft as lava surged up and spilled down on both sides . |
| 4 | This leaves a nice little ladder which I zig zag down on both sides with my sewing machine , then cut up the centre of the ladder . |
| 5 | And then my father would be standing on on top and throwing one of these er straw ropes up then he 'd let er an er end down on both sides . |
| 6 | When that happened , he could imagine the pines closing in on all sides , sealing the locomotive and the carriages in a green tomb ; invisible even from the air . |
| 7 | Turning on Mungo , Mr Cottle paused to blow his nose , a signal for the trees to edge in on all sides , shutting out the sky . |
| 8 | They were hemmed in on all sides by thick heavy stone , but still the wind managed to snake in through innumerable cracks and crannies . |
| 9 | Then it became darker , the trees denser , thicker , hemming them in on all sides as Thomas guided their horses along some secret path known only to him . |
| 10 | A minute later Sabrina swung the Renault into a narrow alleyway beside the house and emerged into a cobbled courtyard closed in on all sides by faded white walls , the paint peeling off in unsightly flakes to reveal greyish plaster underneath . |
| 11 | But within minutes , confirmation was coming in on all sides : from our headquarters in London , from the teleprinter flashes , from national newspaper reporters stunned like us and now eager to hear what we thought about it . |
| 12 | When , after five or six miles [ 8–10 km ] , his men reached another defile , between Loch Lochy and a steeply sloping mountain to the east , they found the Highlanders had arrived before them , and after a brisk action , in which he eventually found himself hemmed in on three sides , Scott , himself wounded , and with two men dead , accepted terms of surrender . |
| 13 | The main spar booms and other main structural members were sizable pieces of laminated wood , several inches square , and were generally boxed in on three sides by the plywood skin and shear webs . |
| 14 | The old man 's chair was placed in a dormer window that was glassed in on three sides . |
| 15 | Somewhere , affection had crept in on both sides . |
| 16 | Hedges closed in on both sides , brushing the side mirrors and sending up a cloud of small white moths into the bracken scented air . |
| 17 | The nineteenth-century physiologist , physicist and psychologist , von Helmholtz , who contributed substantially to every discipline that he engaged in , described the process thus : It was always necessary , first of all , that I should have turned my problem over on all sides to such an extent that I had all its angles and complexities " in my head " and could run through them freely without writing … |
| 18 | A long corridor ran down the length of the building with doors leading off on both sides . |
| 19 | The Empire is crumbling into civil war , Daemons are popping up on all sides , and who 's to say that the Great Enchanter does n't have a hand in it somewhere ? |
| 20 | Suddenly , too , I was back in wine country with terraced hillsides stretching up on both sides of the road . |
| 21 | If you approach the village from the north , however , along the D9 or D33 , you see that at the northern edge of the village , the vineyards bank up on both sides to form a hollow where the vines dip down to 120 metres , giving east and west-facing exposures on either side . |
| 22 | I looked through the window and there were people lined up on both sides of the street , the women with black aprons and the men with their caps and hats off , bared heads bowed as we passed . |
| 23 | However , the conflict between modern farming practice and environmental conservation is by no means an irreconcilable one and , although entrenched positions have been taken up on both sides , there are now a few signs of a more sophisticated awareness of the Problems involved and a more constructive desire on the part of both farming organizations and the environmental lobby to overcome them . |
| 24 | They invariably end up on opposite sides in the Argentine Open . |
| 25 | Meanwhile the boys stood on the pavements with their bicycles nearby , admiring the girls and commenting on their looks ; greetings to friends rang out on all sides . |
| 26 | But now that the truth is out on both sides , they are surely singularly out of place . |
| 27 | A screen of black-clad riders was spreading out on both sides . |
| 28 | If SR is to remain a relevant magazine it has to continue to attract new young readers — with outlets for feminist and particularly lesbian thought being cut back on all sides SR could well be a first line in this battle for the foreseeable future . |
| 29 | Mr Jenks marched along the corridor , glaring wrathfully about him , and the children fell back on both sides without a murmur . |
| 30 | Life has to be going on on both sides of it , I told her . |