Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] on the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn right into er what is a very busy er road in any event at that time but that the dangers is that many drivers are becoming impatient with waiting their turn in the queue and what they 're doing is driving down on the wrong side of the road in order to utilise a little back road that 's a service road which runs alongside road and leads into Nightingale avenue . |
| 2 | For members of the nobility the struggles of Lancaster and York could have drastic results , particularly for those who incurred forfeiture through ending up on the losing side ; although attainders could be reversed and lands restored , this might take a long time ( 130 , Ch.5 ) . |
| 3 | Playing the fringes of the metropolis , Lily had used to hope that one day , looking up on the prompt side , she would see one of George Edwardes 's scouts . |
| 4 | I was all for passing by on the other side of the road , but Buffy would n't let it drop . |
| 5 | The mood of Bank Holiday reflects that of a nation knowing that war must come , but other films dealt more directly with the storm clouds building up on the other side of the Channel . |
| 6 | As opposed to the Islamic loony now prancing around on the other side of the room , thought Robert bitterly . |
| 7 | The doctor and the priest , stepping back on the other side of the room , murmured to each other . |
| 8 | Looking up at the north-facing slope ahead you would see snow and ice and you would tremble , but you would know that coming down on the other side , you would walk in sunshine , through green grass and sweet-smelling flowers . |
| 9 | When you come to doing along on the other side make sure they 're beautiful parallel |
| 10 | This error is like climbing below a col , and coming up on the wrong side of it . |
| 11 | Although striking an important psychological blow by coming out on the winning side against his main challenger , Wasps ' Steve Bates , he admitted : ‘ Even though I am the man in possession , it would be just as easy for the selectors to pick Steve . ’ |
| 12 | Hanging about on the other side of the open door , you wanted to screech then run . |
| 13 | The other had turned and was waiting for the Genoese , standing off on the landward side with her crossbowmen and hackbutters lining her port rail , fore and aft . |
| 14 | With everyone that counts stacking up on the same side , only an optimist would fight for honesty . |
| 15 | Clinging to this assurance , Isabel listened to the rain beating down on the other side of the wall and refused to think about her peculiar reactions to fitzAlan any longer . |