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

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1 A short time later they went out to where a bay gelding and a grey mare were tethered and , after instructing her concerning the correct side to mount , he gave her a leg up .
2 This may also mean protecting us from the seamier side of Chinese life .
3 Another Greek has cut down a Trojan who falls under the handle , leading us to the other side .
4 Facing him on the other side of the arena was the current Executioner , whom Angel One had watched fighting and killing the previous holder of the office barely a week before .
5 She was just about to go inside again when over to her right , by the high stone wall that marked the boundary of the Roscarrock estate , she heard a single , high-pitched whistle , and looking round she saw a face observing her from the other side .
6 Yeah , doing it on the wrong sides .
7 I did get around this by approaching it from the other side : I added gain to the clean modes and it all came together well .
8 The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge .
9 He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror .
10 hundred quid 's putting it on the light side .
11 The others were trying to drive the protesters away , and a fight seemed likely to break out at any minute , until a pair of uniformed police constables appeared , and stood watching them from the other side of the street .
12 For a time DeVore simply watched her , following her every movement with the hidden cameras , switching from screen to screen , zooming in to focus on her face or watching her from the far side of the room .
13 Josey was watching her from the other side of the fireplace .
14 The board is steered away from the wind by initially inclining the rig forwards and then leaning it over the windward side of the board .
15 For instance , yesterday he saw a funeral in a barge , fascinating — six women wrapped in coats in the boat , which the men were dragging along the canal through the heath , and the clergyman in his three-cornered hat and his breeches trailing them on the other side .
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