Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] from side to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of being at the controls , he was desperately clinging on while the engines , at full throttle , thrust the boat violently from side to side as a host of faction fighters wrestled to grab the wheel — or in most cases to avoid touching it . |
| 2 | As it does so , it swings its body slightly from side to side , like a machine-gunner raking the enemy ranks . |
| 3 | He wagged his head slowly from side to side . |
| 4 | He moved his head slowly from side to side . |
| 5 | He shook his head slowly from side to side . |
| 6 | His father looked at him with a disappointed expression , shaking his head slowly from side to side . |
| 7 | They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed . |
| 8 | Pete , the new boy , stood shaking his head slowly from side to side , |
| 9 | Forty years later , I sat in the drawing-room of his home at Sevenoaks in Kent , watching him shake his head vigorously from side to side as he contemplated the ruins of his own efforts to resolve the Palestine problem . |
| 10 | Images kept on coming at me which , like a crazy horse , I tried to resist , defiantly tossing my head high , but each new picture flashing into my mind enraged me more and more and I shook my head frantically from side to side . |
| 11 | Finally she fought , trying to escape that devastating possession , twisting her head frantically from side to side until Luke 's hands came up to still her struggles . |
| 12 | I noticed as he moved forwards , that he swung his head slightly from side to side . |
| 13 | She began to struggle , tossing her head wildly from side to side in an effort to avoid his marauding lips . |
| 14 | With her face still hidden , Eleanor began shaking her head violently from side to side . |
| 15 | Sammy was already sitting waiting for them , his tail thumping the ground impatiently from side to side . |