Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [num] side " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was only sometimes that I 'd wake and find Bernard snoring on one side of me and Uncle Bill giving an occasional snort on the other . |
| 2 | She turned and Cameron saw , under her arm , old Donald 's face , eyes staring fixedly , his mouth drooping at one side , a shine of saliva on his chin . |
| 3 | It looked simple , a low white building with a shady arcade around it , and a couple of cars parked to one side . |
| 4 | She began to landscape the fantasy garden in her mind and had soon forgotten about the slight ache in her hips that came from having her legs curled to one side , and the uncomfortable weave of the wickerwork pressing into the soft skin on the underside of her forearms . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Its tiny head and legs project from one side but it can no longer crawl about . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mr Halbert told the court : ‘ The car crossed from one side of the road to the other . |
| 9 | Lay the bricks starting from one side almost up to the centre , checking each one for position against a string line attached to the centre of the arch former , and against the marks on the circumference . |
| 10 | Frankie leaped to one side with a cry of alarm , jolting and almost dropping the bunch of flowers . |
| 11 | Though he can not be more than five or six , he wears a man 's anorak , badly zipped and uneven , a heap of purple fabric tilted to one side and a small freckled shoulder bare on the other . |
| 12 | With a sigh I went on a few steps further to George 's office and found him as I 'd expected , fully dressed , lightly napping , with worked-on forms pushed to one side beside an empty coffee cup . |
| 13 | The Welsh boyo looks to one side . |
| 14 | Mr Wilson 's further suggestion that all of the blame lies on one side , namely the Protestants and to suggest they leave what is rightfully theirs , shows a contemptuous disregard for these people . |
| 15 | The dispenser hummed as the null-grav units tried to compensate , and the machine juddered to one side . |
| 16 | Note that the Middlesex Crown Court case of Langham v Crisp [ 1975 ] Crim LR 652 where a motorist parked on one side of the road and an obstruction was caused by the subsequent parking of cars opposite . |
| 17 | As he hesitated the door opened and Gilbert Forbes came out in a rush , his make-up smudged on one side of his face , his toupee not quite straight . |
| 18 | A flame roared under a black bucket , clean blue like a blowtorch clinging to one side . |
| 19 | Joseph replied with a renewed bid , this time of £43 million , Watney 's came back again with £47 million , and so the battle swayed from one side to the other for eight weeks . |
| 20 | an original term for work printed on one side of a large sheet of paper . |
| 21 | The headlights of the Fiat swept from one side of the narrow winding road to the other , picking out an area of ploughed field , a thicket of scrub oaks with last year 's brown leaves still clinging to the branches , an ancient wooden cart fitted with modern lorry tyres , an abandoned barn covered with posters for a dance band called ‘ The Lads of the Adriatic ’ , a dirt track leading off into the hills . |
| 22 | The constable stood to one side to allow the detectives to file past him , Norman Pinder slouching between them . |
| 23 | The boy stood to one side . |
| 24 | Many of the houses stand in two side roads on either side of this road , sometimes referred to as King Street . |
| 25 | He let the mattress sag to one side and clutched his scalp , swaying dizzily for a moment . |
| 26 | The curtain moved to one side , and a woman 's hand touched my shoulder . |
| 27 | Another crumpled , broken body lay to one side . |
| 28 | Any tendency for a distribution to lean to one side , i.e. to deviate from normality , leads to differences between the median and mean values . |
| 29 | And drowsy with the wine dozed on one side . |
| 30 | Kozyrev highlighted the spirit of co-operation between the two sides : " We worked as friends and allies standing on one side of the barricade of all the problems that beset us on the other . " |