Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] on the [adj] side " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There was one of them on the other side of the street . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I would leave a few of you on the G'bai side of the mountains with the pack beasts . |
| 8 | Father Poole pointed to the chair opposite him on the other side of the fireplace . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We had lunch on the side of the valley as a polar bear lay sleeping opposite us on the other side ! |
| 12 | Beneath me on the other side of the hill was a circle of old stone huts . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But then there were the terns getting away with it on the other side of the window . ’ |
| 19 | So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’ |
| 20 | A young woman sat with her back to me on the far side of the great fourposter bed . |
| 21 | It was a Madonna one and it had a bit of other stuff on it on the other side . |
| 22 | He would pass Syl 's house on the way , since it stood close to ours on the same side of the private road , behind hedges of cypress and box , flanked by lawns garnished with birch and all manner of ornamental trees . |
| 23 | Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door . |
| 24 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
| 25 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |