Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] side of " in BNC.

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1 The other hand , also in a clenched fist position , is tucked in against the opposite side of the body , with the thumb and fingers facing upwards .
2 He sat down on the far side of the room and I caught only a brief view of him through the dancers , but it was undoubtedly Ralph Pike still at large .
3 She sat down on the other side of the desk .
4 A hundred yards down on the other side of the road a knot of men were gathered .
5 ‘ I 've a hunch , ’ he said , putting the heavy volume down on the other side of the board to the knives and the water .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Turn right into er what is a very busy er road in any event at that time but that the dangers is that many drivers are becoming impatient with waiting their turn in the queue and what they 're doing is driving down on the wrong side of the road in order to utilise a little back road that 's a service road which runs alongside road and leads into Nightingale avenue .
10 He went back to the girl , sat down on the opposite side of the desk and gave a brisk nod .
11 Six weeks later , CT scanning showed a bulky pancreas and a large pseudocyst of the lesser sac , with fluid tracked down on the left side of the retroperitoneum in the anterior compartment , anterior to Gerota 's fascia as far as the left iliac dossa .
12 Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to .
13 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 .
14 When his telling cross arrived in the danger area , Stainrod stole in on the blind side of the Perth defence to power the ball home first time from 12 yards .
15 Stephen pulled in on the opposite side of the road .
16 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 .
17 He could hear her barking and looked down over the steep side of the embankment to the bottom of the trees .
18 Rafiq followed him , and for a moment Robert thought he was going to hit him , but , instead , he ran across the road and over towards the far side of the Common .
19 A WOMAN died when her car crossed over onto the wrong side of the road , hit a Transit van and overturned yesterday .
20 Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself .
21 One after another , men failed in their attempts to drive the nails , usually succeeding in bending them , so I was proud when Dad , using the skill gained over so many years at the anvil , gave his nail an almighty thump sending it through to the other side of the board .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Alina was over on the far side of the room , sitting at her table with the lamp angled to spill across the pages of the scrapbook that lay open in front of her .
25 Now he sat out on the porch with his chair tilted back and his feet up on the rail , and he sipped at his beer as he watched the patterns of sunlight on the forest over on the far side of the track .
26 Quiss came back to the table by way of another small , though taller , table over on the far side of the room , where a few dirty cups and cracked glasses stood in a small tin basin under a dripping tap .
27 He meets us over on the far side of the town at nine thirty P.M. ’
28 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 .
29 Over on the other side of the High Street , Saddam Hussein had straightened up .
30 Somewhere , over on the other side of the Common , a truck moved up from below the hill and , headlights hooded , started across towards Parkside .
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