Example sentences of "far side " in BNC.

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1 She sort of froze for a moment , tried to smile and not smile at the same time , looked uncomprehendingly at me , turned ever so slightly towards the farther side of the road from me and walked away with quick nervous steps .
2 And yards out from the farther side of the-marsh , too far from the side to be even touched by hand , was a chestnut pony , trapped nearly up to his flanks in the quicksilver morass helpless and desperate .
3 Dolly , sitting on the floor against the wall on the farther side of the bed , reached and tugged a blanket free .
4 Something moved on the farther side of the lochan , something hulky and dirty white , caught in the bog myrtle , where it shifted and billowed in the breeze .
5 Hazel came out on the farther side of the ilexes and followed the path round a bend .
6 On the instant , a fearful commotion began on the farther side .
7 The drive was tree-lined , so they went down the farther side , only visible now and then .
8 This morning she was on the farther side of the gates raking the gravel into a pattern exact as a piece of embroidery , when Nicandra came tittupping along , her hat hanging by its elastic on the back of her head .
9 The dry-stone wall on the farther side looked solid and uncompromising .
10 He slipped from the edge nearest Nora as soon as the hounds entered at the farther side .
11 The nurse trope , I admit , shares America 's power to open human doors the further side of whimsicality , but that is because the suicide letter has only one foot in the completely flat uncomic abstract world of negation talk .
12 The Friar made for the further side of the water , skirting it to the north .
13 The Leader posted Michael and the thin man across the track on the further side , he took the middle of the track himself , and left Hugh and Marian to block the other half .
14 His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be .
15 They had reached the further side of the field during this animated discussion and Meredith hopped nimbly over the gate with twice the speed and dexterity with which she had negotiated the stile .
16 Markby joined her on the further side and they both stopped to watch as their bovine companions lumbered up and stood in a row staring at them expectantly , tossing muddy heads .
17 The moon had almost set and the night was now dark , but they could see the water faintly shining as it flowed and could just make out , on the further side , a thin belt of nut-trees and alders .
18 Whenever they reached one of these rifts the rabbits huddled together , waiting for Hazel or Bigwig to climb the further side and find a way forward .
19 In the bank on the further side of the bay the rabbit-holes were plain to see , showing dark and distinct in the bare ground .
20 This English gate into Shrewsbury was guarded less stringently than the Welsh bridge on the further side , and therefore used more freely , and the drawbridge was lowered from earliest dawn .
21 They were pursued , some into the Till , where many drowned and some swam to safety — if it was indeed safety , so far into England — on the further side , some as far north as the Tweed and the border , thirteen miles away .
22 The further side had offered a fair-sized patch of flat ground .
23 you must give way to any pedestrians on the crossing , so , otherwise you may proceed a straight pelican is one crossing even when there is a central refuge and you must wait for people crossing from the further side of the refuge , do n't harass the pedestrians for instance by revving your engine .
24 This certainty was that the Spice Islands , the Moluccas , lay at the farthest side of the Mar del Sur , or of whatever might lie beyond the waters that Balboa saw .
25 ‘ The far side .
26 He pointed at a shell on the far side of the street .
27 But the latest news was discouraging — they had met few supporters on the road down Keltney , a handful from the far side of Tummel , not a soul from Rannoch .
28 On the far side of the crater , faint plumes of steam from a hot spring drifted into the air , and dotted across the grass were weird plants called groundsels , looking like dried cabbages on poles , and clumps of bright flowers , with red poker-shaped buds .
29 A weekly list of horses to follow HUFOOF : Had her stands-side rivals beaten in a 24-runner sprint at Haydock on Saturday but was kept out of the frame by the finishers on the far side of the track .
30 Last year 's winner , Quinlan Terry , would not have beaten the second horse , the subsequent Group One race winner Ile De Chypre , had that rival not been drawn on the far side .
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