Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [prep] the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I am plump — according to the ‘ Height and Weight ’ charts I am on the heavy side of OK , but my weight has stayed the same since I was fourteen , so I know it 's not true that I 'm overeating , or greedy . |
| 2 | ‘ No thanks mate , ’ came the reply , ‘ I 'm on the other side of the bar tonight . |
| 3 | I 'm on the other side . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm on the other side . |
| 5 | ‘ If a sigh is four beats too late , I 'm on the other side of the stage four beats too early and the laugh is dead and I 've lost one of the best moments in the show . ’ |
| 6 | And there 's you thinking well I 'm on the other side of this book , well past you Tracey and you had to start all over again ! |
| 7 | I 've never been into virtual reality but as I guess I 'm on the younger side of your readership at 18 I bet it will feature strongly by the time I enter the working world . |
| 8 | I 'm — I 'm from the wrong side of the tracks . ’ |
| 9 | S against T , right , then as long as you stay in the positive half , you are on the right side of the starting line , you have n't gone back and crossed over it . |
| 10 | My dear , you are on the young side — I am only stating a fact , the kind of fact the world sees — to be living in a kind of bachelor 's establishment , so naturally one asks oneself where is that mysterious lady , her mother ? |
| 11 | ‘ Well , you are on the big side and for a moment I had this vision of you … ’ |
| 12 | Are you sure you are n't treating yourself to easy self-congratulation , seeking approval , making certain you 're on the right side ? |
| 13 | I think , though , ’ the Doctor said , eyes twinkling , ‘ we 'll be able to persuade them that you 're on the same side as the rest of us . ’ |
| 14 | His reply was , ’ How are you going to close it as you 're on the wrong side of the canal ? ’ — I had n't thought of that . |
| 15 | Rugby in the mud is no fun , especially when you 're on the losing side , yet again . |
| 16 | What sort of things happen though , if you 're into the negative side . |
| 17 | There we are round the other side of the world ! |
| 18 | By the time we 're on the other side of this , I know ( I 'm experienced ) , by the time I 've become really fond of them and their pretty ways , they will start to recede , irreversibly , fading from me , with the lightest of kisses , the briefest squeeze of the hand , the brush of a stockinged calf beneath the table , a smile . |
| 19 | I mean once we 're on the other side it does n't really matter |
| 20 | We 're on the second side of this . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're on the same side . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We 're on the same side . |
| 23 | You said we 're on the same side . |
| 24 | I 'm glad we 're on the same side . |
| 25 | We 're on the same side and you know and I know that some of the troops are gon na find that , I , my opinion is that some of the troops will find that hard going for eleven weeks unless they know exactly what the hell they 're supposed to be doing in |
| 26 | We 're on the same side , that 's what I 've just said ! |
| 27 | I know that the spiritual warfare will be very real but we 're on the winning side , HALLEUJAH . |
| 28 | They are on the other side of the valley . ’ |
| 29 | Politicians can only be trusted when they think that they are on the winning side and will ignore any democratic mechanism to prove that they are ‘ right ’ . |
| 30 | And on the landward side of all the trenches ( except those between the Solomons and the New Hebrides , where they are on the seaward side ) are the island chains — Japan to New Zealand — whose birth is in whole or in part a consequence of all that colliding and jostling beneath the blue horizons . |