Example sentences of "[verb] up on [adj] side " in BNC.

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1 A trained work elephant then moved up on either side , rather like tugs docking a ship .
2 I understand that other roads built up on one side only have been granted 30 mph speed limits .
3 There was not a great deal to see , as he was curled up on one side with his thumb jammed in his mouth , and four chubby fingers obscured that part of his face not pressed deep into the bolster .
4 This section of the road is continuously built up on one side and contains ten residential access points .
5 When Russell pulled up , the two White Mountain Apaches with him slowed to a walk and came up on either side of him .
6 Lining up on one side is the Baker Street pub in appropriately , Baker street .
7 Then , after a whispered word with one of the cousins , Angel and he galloped up on either side of her and neatly lifted her off the little black mare .
8 There are toothless beak-like premaxillae at the front of the skull , and the lower jaws curve up on either side to a high point .
9 A few hundred yards further on , though , venerable stone walls sprang up on either side and we were suddenly in a picture-book Cotswold village tucked away out of sight in the ignoble fringes of the city .
10 All the local army was ranged up on either side and in front , the chiefs a mass of colour , with their gold-embroidered robes and jewelled crowns and shields , the lesser chiefs in lion- or leopard-skins or sheep-skins dyed in brilliant colours .
11 Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt , which she 'd pulled up on that side .
12 If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind .
13 They found Faltour 's Lane and turned into the dirty refuse-filled alleyway , the daylight almost blocked out by the overhanging gables of the houses which reared up on either side .
14 There seemed to be crowds of people lined up on each side of the door and lots were already seated inside the church waiting for the coffin to enter .
15 These consist of solidified fragments of lava which are piled up on either side of a flow by the hotter lava moving more rapidly in the centre of the flow .
16 The ground was a mush of litter banked up on either side , and overhead the sky was blanked out by the narrow crowding of the strap-iron ladders and landings of fire escapes .
17 A photograph of the man could be flashed up on one side of the screen with a contrasting picture of his frail victim on the other side .
18 The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot .
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