Example sentences of "[adv prt] on the other [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 She sat down on the other side of the desk .
2 A hundred yards down on the other side of the road a knot of men were gathered .
3 ‘ I 've a hunch , ’ he said , putting the heavy volume down on the other side of the board to the knives and the water .
4 By the light of the fires he could see Paul already sitting cross-legged on a buffalo skin by the pholy , and he sank gratefully down on the other side of him .
5 She dropped down on the other side of the sweetheart plant from Rain , bowed her head , rested her right hand lightly on the keys , shut her eyes tight and concentrated .
6 Clinging to this assurance , Isabel listened to the rain beating down on the other side of the wall and refused to think about her peculiar reactions to fitzAlan any longer .
7 The canoes had to be carried across and put in on the other side of the dam , then we were given , mini lesson on the art of canoeing in swift water .
8 I was standing there talking to him , and over on the other side of Lime Street , the station side , there was another mackintosh shop and they had ten shilling notes pasted in the window .
9 Over on the other side of the High Street , Saddam Hussein had straightened up .
10 Somewhere , over on the other side of the Common , a truck moved up from below the hill and , headlights hooded , started across towards Parkside .
11 Over on the other side of the Gulf , Iran had its share of misfortune when an earthquake struck the region containing the key oilfield of Gach Saran .
12 I looked at myself in the mirror on the dressing-table over on the other side of the room .
13 Once , before starting a new stage in the story , we catch up on the other branch of the family .
14 The voice belonged to George , he had drawn up on the other side of the road , and as I walked towards him his voice was getting impatient .
15 The mood of Bank Holiday reflects that of a nation knowing that war must come , but other films dealt more directly with the storm clouds building up on the other side of the Channel .
16 His Dad had pulled up on the other side of the road .
17 Fearing that Greece and Turkey would end up on the other side of that iron curtain the American President Truman declared that their security was vital to the Western powers and began a substantial programme of aid .
18 She was n't sure how she 'd got there : like someone who takes an electric shock from a kitchen implement and winds up on the other side of the room .
19 She curled up on the other side of the bed .
20 High up on the other side of the square is a sign on which words pass rapidly from right to left across a bank of lights .
21 He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack .
22 A very different response to the critical approach to the Bible was worked out on the other side of the Atlantic by Charles Hodge ( 1797 — 1878 ) of Princeton , the Presbyterian seminary which came to be a veritable bastion of Calvinist orthodoxy .
23 The doctor and the priest , stepping back on the other side of the room , murmured to each other .
24 Now Hewlett Packard , IBM , and DEC are all back on the other side of the fence .
25 Sidney Sheldon 's The Stars Shine Down ( Fontana ) is back on The Other Side of Midnight Form .
26 As opposed to the Islamic loony now prancing around on the other side of the room , thought Robert bitterly .
27 As for cutting it away , it was obvious that to wander about on the other side of the rampart was to invite certain death .
28 Hanging about on the other side of the open door , you wanted to screech then run .
29 And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines .
30 Raven passes by on the other side of the street , but he do n't notice us .
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