Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mountbatten 's especial qualification in Attlee 's eyes for the job of viceroy was his success in getting the Burmese nationalists to come in on the British side in the closing stages of the war ; it was Attlee 's firm belief in later life , as indeed it was Mountbatten 's , that if Mountbatten had been left in charge in Rangoon , Burma would never have left the Commonwealth . |
| 2 | They aimed to pass over to the other side of the stockade through the gap between one section and the other , where the bridge spanned the stream . |
| 3 | What you have going for you is the ability to withstand whatever is dished up and to come out on the winning side . |
| 4 | If you want to find out about the better side of cruising catamarans , phone for details . |
| 5 | As for cutting it away , it was obvious that to wander about on the other side of the rampart was to invite certain death . |
| 6 | The first filter sends a signal to the second filter telling it how much to allow to go through to the outgoing side of our personality . |
| 7 | If one of these groups were to go over to the other side — as the army did in Romania — the balance of forces would be altered . |
| 8 | Some of the stories will now appear dated , and as the years ticked by a few of his novels did tend to veer on to the wrong side of the far-fetched . |
| 9 | If the whites can only hold their form , this may allow us to sneak up on the blind side and pip them both at the death . |
| 10 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 11 | The vehicle was parked on a yellow line and so close to the Market Street junction that vehicles emerging from that road had to swing out onto the wrong side of the High Street . |
| 12 | It was a help to us because all other traffic had been halted in both directions and we were able to race along on the wrong side of the road . |
| 13 | When it goes past I want to run over to the other side of the bridge , but there 's too much traffic to cross the road , so I just watch the trail of water it leaves behind . |
| 14 | But then the skull starts to grow in a strange , asymmetrical , twisted fashion , so that one eye , for instance the left , moves over the top of the head to finish up on the other side . |
| 15 | It 's much easier to get through to the other side of the world than to the other side of London , and the lines are much clearer too . |
| 16 | WAR CLOUDS OVER EUROPE read the banner headlines at the opening of Reed 's earlier film , Bank Holiday ( 1938 ) , a picture whose setting suggests escapism but whose narrative argues for the need to face up to the dark side of life in order to find meaningful happiness . |
| 17 | Add to these two schizophrenic cats , two bears with what look like severe cases of acne , and several reindeer who are just asking to end up on the wrong side of a roast dinner . |
| 18 | A similar exercise which will only work with a low handicap golfer is one of trying to stay back on the right side a little longer , and to be slightly flat-footed with the right foot through impact . |
| 19 | ‘ My priority had always been to get back into the Irish side , and I was never prepared to look any further than that . |