Example sentences of "[verb] from one side " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the sermon wore on and he became more and more excited , he began to jump from one side , first to the middle and , by the time he was in full verbal flight , he managed to leap the entire length of the pulpit . |
| 2 | The profile of the street remains unchanged , but parking takes the form of stretches of right-angle and alongside parking , alternating from one side of the road to the other every 50 metres or so . |
| 3 | The area around Perry Barr Wharf has several industrial areas , alternating from one side of the canal to the other . |
| 4 | At the least they should be planted no wider than two abreast where each plant can be approached from one side . |
| 5 | From the clifftop he watched the small figure of Detective Furness in his red anorak on the saddle below , twisting from one side to another as he strained his eyes against the bright sunlight to search for his charge . |
| 6 | You would imagine Sarah does more than enough to keep herself fit by jetting from one side of the world to the other frequently . |
| 7 | 1906 is probably best remembered for the great earthquake in San Francisco , which resulted in fire and general destruction of the city ; also the Simplon tunnel through the Alps was completed , allowing railway traffic to pass from one side of that range of mountains , to the other . |
| 8 | In those words the Neath guru encapsulated the debate that has raged and lurched from one side to another while a succession of coaches have sought in vain to establish a definitive Welsh style , during the years of consistent defeat since the 1988 Triple Crown . |
| 9 | In both directions — south towards the Grand Parade and Patrick Street , and north to the quays — other horse-drawn vehicles threaded their way , wheels screaming , drivers cursing and cracking whips , the while throngs of Friday shoppers darted from one side of the unpaved road to the other , dodging between carts and traps and under horses ' necks as if they were n't there at all . |
| 10 | A mechanical analogy is the Euler strut , where a beam is stable on either side of a centre line but unstable on it , passing from one side to the other discontinuously . |
| 11 | In order for plates to behave in the manner proposed the lithosphere of which they are composed must be sufficiently rigid compared with the underlying asthenosphere for stress to be transmitted from one side to the other . |
| 12 | Hazlitt set out with Coleridge that morning on the road back to Shrewsbury , observing how his companion continually moved from one side of the footpath to the other as they walked along , though only later connecting this odd movement with ‘ any instability of purpose or involuntary change of principle ’ . |
| 13 | Its tiny head and legs project from one side but it can no longer crawl about . |
| 14 | Relationships were difficult things , to be worked at , and how could any survive when the love in it came from one side only ? |
| 15 | The noise in the Chamber tonight did not do the House great credit , but I do not think that it came from one side alone . |
| 16 | He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life ; instantly , in less than the time it took her to walk from one side of the room to the other , he knew he loved her . |
| 17 | Angry thunder cracks open like a oak splitting down the middle , to take over the horizon , cannoning from one side to another . |
| 18 | They 've now taken the ramps out , which is a breach of the planning condition again , so we intend to pursue them on that , and they are offering , believe it or not that disabled people can be taxied from one side of the station to the other side of the station . |
| 19 | For certain wavelengths the crests of the waves reflected from one side of the soap film coincide with the troughs reflected from the other side . |
| 20 | Do the messages that pass from one side of the brain to the other use symbols like the words of our ordinary language ? |
| 21 | Standing up , she walked from one side of the window to the other , her movements stiff and her legs trembly from the accumulated tension in her muscles . |
| 22 | Similarly on ridges , the rope linking a team of four can be weaved from one side of the arête to the other and threaded behind rock spikes , to create natural running belays . |
| 23 | Today it had doubled , crossed from one side of his forehead to the other , and reinforced a series of furrows rather than wrinkles , that made his broad white forehead look like a new-ploughed field covered in snow . |
| 24 | Mr Halbert told the court : ‘ The car crossed from one side of the road to the other . |
| 25 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
| 26 | A couple strolled past on clicking heels which echoed from one side of the road to the other . |
| 27 | Well we counted twenty and then we were laughing so much we thought oh we 'd better stop her you know twenty sort of goes from one side to the side when she 's lying on her stomach . |
| 28 | A : what have you got to do this afternoon B : oh I 'm * going to repair the child bar A : what do you mean CHILD bar B : uh it 's er metal bar goes acr — has to be fixed from one side of the car I mean from one side of the back seat to the other for the BABY seat to go on A : AH … |
| 29 | This means that you zig-zag from one side to the other , twisting your centre-line as you move . |
| 30 | Aggie glanced at Ben ; then her head drooped and wobbled from one side to the other before she said , ‘ Well , if you do n't mind , miss . ’ |