Example sentences of "[verb] on the other side " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , an ex gratia payment to an older man who has no full-time employment in prospect could fall on the other side of the line . |
| 2 | Surely , it is at that age that interest has to be aroused because later those subjects will fall on the other side of the divide . |
| 3 | He was abreast with the lorry when I saw the oncoming small black car overtaking on the other side , and overtaking fast . |
| 4 | Not only that , but the way the light came around the edges and through the door would enable you to perceive clearly and in three dimensions what was happening on the other side of the door ! |
| 5 | that , that is included on the other side in the three hundred pounds that went out . |
| 6 | It was only by chance , returning on the other side , that she saw its brass plate . |
| 7 | And he would sit and wait on the other side for someone to come and pick him up when he was coming home . ’ |
| 8 | The German mortars were exploding on the other side of the wood as I clambered out of the trench and made my way through the trees in the direction of the road . |
| 9 | Freud was right , Maud thought , vigorously rubbing her white legs , desire lies on the other side of repugnance . |
| 10 | He had broken through the terror barrier , perhaps , and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side . |
| 11 | Mesquite lies on the other side of miles and miles of rising desert temper . |
| 12 | Individualizing traits are the girl 's witty use of " " fayllard " " , meaning both " unsuccessful " ( with her ) and " good-for-nothing " ( generally ) and her vulgar but effective way of telling the clerk his place lies on the other side of the door to her . |
| 13 | ‘ and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence ’ |
| 14 | Unable to return to his seat , too scared even to hide in the toilets , he had hovered in the shadows by the door for a long time until he spotted Sweetheart climbing from a car parked on the other side of the street . |
| 15 | Not surprisingly , we can trace this same arms race on the other side . |
| 16 | Roll over and repeat both exercises on the other side : Hip and Thigh Extender x 15 ; Front Thigh Stretch x 5 |
| 17 | The girl was walking on the other side of the pavement . |
| 18 | When Jos moved round to work on the other side of the gate , he handed Mungo a sheet of sandpaper , telling him to use plenty of ‘ elbow grease ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ The way we sex a grape , or vineyard , in New Zealand , ’ he began , ‘ to ensure that there is the right amount of grape exposed to the sunlight , is to ask a friend to stand on the other side of the vine . |
| 20 | Although European railway executives see British rail traffic as important , it is quite clear that it is not crucial to plans for the development of a European network which will proceed whatever happens on the other side of the Channel . |
| 21 | Jed did n't know it , but Celia was listening on the other side of the curtain , her laughter stifled by a mouthful of number 42 . |
| 22 | Rain was sure she was listening on the other side of it . |
| 23 | ‘ Its distinctive feature is the outer wall facing what was for some time the running lines of the railway , though these tracks are now wholly within the works area , the main lines passing on the other side of the canal . |
| 24 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 25 | They 'd want to be sure the items had been reported stolen and the person who owns this suitcase for example , would need to know what was written on the other side . |
| 26 | On 28 December 1879 SIR Thomas Bouch 's fine example of engineering , the Tay Railway Bridge — over which Queen Victoria had so graciously travelled , pausing on the other side to bestow a knighthood on the brilliant engineer — was overwhelmed by a violent storm , high winds causing the structure to collapse into the foaming river below . |
| 27 | I clambered over the wall and dropped on the other side and made my way quickly across the field in the direction of the cottage . |
| 28 | She was actually in the house when the bomb dropped on the other side of the road and she was flung down two flights of stairs and the piano on the other side of the room here bears the scars of the bombing . |
| 29 | The coin looked as if the minter struck it on a single die , punching the image in the metal in repoussé , so hard that the inverted ear on the reverse would appear on the other side , and could be read the right way round in shallow relief when the coin was turned over . |
| 30 | A shape moved on the other side of the room . |