Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from side to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few moments she stood watching him as with quick little movements he fed himself , his sharp eyes darting suspiciously from side to side . |
| 2 | The ginger tomcat glared up at her , its tail lashing furiously from side to side . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah telt ye that before , ’ he recalled , his boozed eyes gazing emptily from side to side . |
| 4 | He stood there in her crotch , weaving sinuously from side to side , hunching his shoulders , his flat little head squealing down into her face . |
| 5 | The Captain looks constantly from side to side , ready to react to anything suspicious . |
| 6 | Was it her own whispered , husky voice , unrecognisable , as her head moved feverishly from side to side in the growing , unbearable tension of desire ? |
| 7 | Looking keenly from side to side , she walked quickly along the path in the direction taken by the boys . |
| 8 | Lurching slowly from side to side , becoming faster and steadier , the Vimy rose into the air followed by cheers from the spectators and smiles from the Vickers team . |
| 9 | The exact movements vary from species to species but in a typical finch such as the chaffinch the body is turned towards the owl , the crown-feathers are raised , the legs are bent , the wings are slightly raised , and the body is jerked quickly from side to side in a crouched , bent-leg posture , while the tail flicks up and down . |
| 10 | Holograms are 3 dimensional images of scenes and events , enabling the viewer to look around from side to side , up and down to see different areas of the subject . |
| 11 | Daak spent a few minutes kicking the remains of the pilot out of the front of the cockpit , and then settled himself into the pilot 's bucket seat and swivelled lazily from side to side , waiting for the women . |
| 12 | The paper did n't flutter about from side to side ; it just went straight down . |
| 13 | She flinched , her head moving slowly from side to side , but more in denial of what was coming next than in answer to his question . |
| 14 | She glanced quickly from side to side . |
| 15 | ‘ Of … of his- ’ Her dark head swung now from side to side before she muttered , ‘ feelings , possessiveness . |
| 16 | She was swinging slowly from side to side , like a pendulum . |
| 17 | Head clasped in hands , he sprawled on the bed , gasping for air , as the room swayed crazily from side to side . |
| 18 | The lorry stands digesting , rocking gently from side to side . |
| 19 | In a second the murderer was dead , and there he hung , his body swinging gently from side to side . |
| 20 | Furthermore , those species that accidentally forged some connecting suspension for the front legs independent of the skull would be among the first to walk , otherwise the head would have to turn constantly from side to side as it did so . |
| 21 | The atmosphere of bonhomie was suddenly gone , and in the frosty silence that followed , Harry Pascoe swayed deliberately from side to side in his chair , as if he were in his cabin aboard the Russell and a gale was blowing . |
| 22 | His eyes went quickly from side to side . |
| 23 | The young man looked carefully from side to side . |
| 24 | Daak was moving again now , swinging wildly from side to side in an attempt to avoid the lasers ' targeting . |
| 25 | Fearful storms sometimes come along our way and we we wonder what is happening to us and we feel that we 're being thrown around and tossed about from side to side , there seems no way out ! |
| 26 | The basket began rocking violently from side to side . |
| 27 | The man hesitated , his eyes flicking nervously from side to side as he waited for the magic . |
| 28 | When you are kneading , move gently from side to side in time with your hands . |
| 29 | With a drawn-out screech , the pod vibrated to a standstill , rocked gently from side to side , and then rolled over . |
| 30 | He wore spectacles and behind the thick lenses his eyes were cloudy and shifted continually from side to side so you were never sure where he was looking . |