Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] side " in BNC.

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1 Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side .
2 Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent .
3 I was saying the single biggest difference for me between the two sides has A been the passing but also the movement .
4 ‘ Oh , ’ he says , then smashes the ball off the 15th tee , up over the hill and goes running after it down the other side .
5 They crossed the road to face the oncoming traffic and had just passed a 40 mph speed limit sign when he looked over his shoulder and saw a car heading towards them on the wrong side of the road .
6 The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side .
7 The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them .
8 There was one of them on the other side of the street .
9 There have been before the present application which was approved , there have been applications refused because the Oxford City Planning Committee were concerned particularly about er access and parking arrangements , and the effects of the extensions er on the front of the building , er very close to Sandy Lane , by the impact of those buildings in particular on residential amenity , on the houses and the occupants of them on the other side of Sandy Lane .
10 She lay on her back on the grass within the avenue made by the great standing stones , between the ninth and tenth of them on the northern side .
11 I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them onto the other side of the hall .
12 ‘ I thought I would leave a few of you on the G'bai side of the mountains with the pack beasts .
13 Father Poole pointed to the chair opposite him on the other side of the fireplace .
14 Things , however , came to a head one day when a veterinary surgeon on his rounds , in a regulation Volvo estate , was alarmed to see Noddy tearing towards him on the wrong side of the road , in hot pursuit of a Transit van .
15 And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side .
16 They both took lookout positions on opposite sides of the roof , and although Charlie could still hear the sound of the battle , he was quite unable to make out who was getting the better of it on the other side of the forest .
17 There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist .
18 We had lunch on the side of the valley as a polar bear lay sleeping opposite us on the other side !
19 As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ?
20 Beneath me on the other side of the hill was a circle of old stone huts .
21 Luckily I had a friend who had run the photo lab at Time magazine who was working with me on the technical side and we came up with this idea of trying to use Fujichrome 1600 .
22 Its appropriateness for the Foreign Office area was on grounds of association and sentiment , rather than visual harmony , as on one side there were buildings of ‘ predominating importance ’ , and no local association to conflict with them on the other side .
23 That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side .
24 He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only .
25 She felt as though she were standing on the edge of a great chasm , with him on the other side urging her to jump across to him .
26 But then there were the terns getting away with it on the other side of the window . ’
27 In fact once submerged they had to find a red rod and drag themselves along it to the other side of the stage ; more than one mother screamed in fear when she saw the show .
28 So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’
29 A young woman sat with her back to me on the far side of the great fourposter bed .
30 He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay .
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