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

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1 The risks of antagonising China , if he did support such initiatives , were apparently highlighted by the Chinese side 's emphasis on " political issues " at high-level Sino-British talks on July 3-6 on Hong Kong 's disputed new airport project [ see p. 38340 ] .
2 As soon as we got there , I started yelling for I was really scared , thought I should drown , but the grown-ups just laughed and off we slid , down the steep slope to hit the water with a mighty splash , then gently floated to the other side of the pool to disembark .
3 John Heminges said they were dark , cruel plays , and that Will was only looking at the black side of people .
4 Why , her employer wished to know , were the Turkish women all accommodated on the left-hand side of the quarter-deck ?
5 The manic international campaign to prevent publication of Peter Wright 's Spycatcher advertised to the world an obsession with secrecy that seemed better suited to the other side of the Iron Curtain .
6 He was glad because — well , not having kids before , he only thought about the nice side of being a dad , he did n't think about the bad side .
7 If this advice is ignored , the torque of the seven-foot-diameter propeller , and the airflow it sends corkscrewing down the fuselage and acting on the large fin , causes the relatively light 207 to suddenly aim for the left-hand side of the runway .
8 Johnny had another couple of seasons as a player , but he retired after a nasty fractured cheekbone and broken jaw early in 1962–63 , only to turn to the commercial side of the game and build a new and successful career there .
9 I was very shaken I was only sitting on the other side of the wall .
10 If Gunnell herself has cashed in , she 's not been so blatant or obviously motivated by the financial side as other athletes .
11 As we have seen , this optimism is already justified on the theoretical side , and this is providing a fruitful stimulus to the experimentalists .
12 He just moved to the other side of the bed , and lay on his back .
13 She had desperately scrambled at the shiny sides of the toilet-bowl as she slid into the water but to no avail .
14 Excavations have been largely confined to the western side , revealing an earth rampart made up of material from at least one contemporary ditch to the west .
15 You can also see that the maria are largely confined to the near side .
16 Sunrise , which filters a wonderful golden hue upon the shell of the architecture , is perhaps best shot from the far side of the harbour , from Farm Grove , almost at the end of Mrs. Macquaries Point .
17 Sunrise , which filters a wonderful golden hue upon the shell of the architecture , is perhaps best shot from the far side of the harbour , from Farm Cove , almost at the end of Mrs Macquaries Point .
18 Since our history books are still largely written from the liberal side we are amazed to find Wordsworth on the side of the aristocracy and against the rising hopes of the people ; as he himself put it : ‘ I can not but be of opinion that the feudal power yet surviving in England is eminently serviceable in counteracting the popular tendency to reform . ’
19 The programme is largely to do with the perceptual side of thinking .
20 The term normally appears on the right-hand side in place of .
21 If we just talked about the technical side of music , it would be a very short interview .
22 I 'll just go round the other side and get the ice-cream .
23 ‘ Our family did n't exactly come from the wrong side of the tracks , but we were certainly always within sound of the train whistles . ’
24 If you 're one of those people who 'd rather err on the safe side , the best advice is to avoid meat products which use scraps from cattle bones , such as pate and some cheap sausages .
25 Venables , who freely admits he took on a huge financial burden for his 22 per cent stake , is alleged to want more say on the financial side , but Sugar prefers him to concentrate on coaching .
26 Always looks on the dark side .
27 And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock .
28 Still , always look on the bright side .
29 It was appreciated by fans who sang ‘ Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life ’ while their team was being knocked out by Germany .
30 you can ‘ Always look on the bright side of life ’ , or even on the runway for ice .
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