Example sentences of "[pron] on the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why am I on the wrong side of this stone ? ’ she whispered . |
| 2 | Someone on the far side of the cloisters made a joke in Dutch and another gaggle of European youths burst into laughter . |
| 3 | Even though she 'd been dead for so long it could sometimes seem that she was still with him , a presence in the next room , someone on the other side of a door who waited and listened but who never stepped through , except when he dreamed . |
| 4 | ‘ Someone on the Coptic side wants to keep things on the boil , wants to stop agreement from being reached . |
| 5 | ‘ You think there 's someone on the Moslem side who 's got an interest in keeping things on the boil ? ’ asked Georgiades . |
| 6 | Either someone on the German side understood English or the TARDIS 's telepathic circuits were at work again , because the Germans also began dashing for the exits on their side of the cavern . |
| 7 | Close to it at a March meeting in 1585 accusations of a theft of some Scottish spurs and counter-accusations of ‘ a pretended matter beforehand ’ began to fly to and fro , until without warning someone on the Scottish side shot and killed Russell . |
| 8 | That they were left to themselves is evident , for Eusebius of Nicomedia , who was close to Constantine , found himself on the losing side in the debate about the relationship between Father and Son , defeated by a group led by a mere deacon ( though soon to be a bishop ) , Athanasius of Alexandria . |
| 9 | ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard . |
| 10 | Somebody on the other side of the curtain brushed against my knees . |
| 11 | They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise ! |
| 12 | Well perhaps you or somebody on the other side might care to tell us how you 're gon na take it from three to three and half , cos I 'll quite happily tell you then how we 'll take it from three and half to four percent , so we welcome that as a step in the right direction . |
| 13 | Its on the left-hand side , and er some people named lived there . |
| 14 | I applied for leave , and departed from Victoria Station on 15 September 1946 , on the famous Golden Arrow train , which on the other side of the Channel became the Flèche d'or . |
| 15 | The disk is round , covered with plates which on the dorsal side of the disk are surrounded by a single row of rounded granules . |
| 16 | See ye on the other side of the bend , if ye make it . ’ |
| 17 | Who on the allied side was the equal of any one of them ? |
| 18 | See you on the other side , we called . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought I would leave a few of you on the G'bai side of the mountains with the pack beasts . |
| 20 | From Ainhoa the only road that will keep you on the French side of the Pyrenees runs more or less north-east , back towards Espelette . |
| 21 | He [ Chang ] said that the fact Korea found itself on the other side of that line as defined in Acheson 's address , combined with the House action yesterday , appeared to raise the serious question as to whether the United States might now be considered as having abandoned Korea . |
| 22 | we 'll sor we 'll find you something something on the mellow side , June . |
| 23 | He was wrestling with something on the other side of that landing door , pushing open the door with one foot and shouting : ‘ Come on , then ! |
| 24 | Something on the other side of the room exploded , and kept on exploding . |
| 25 | Because if you will have a had to get a recorder to listen to this side so you might as well put something on the other side and send it to me but of course there is no rush and in return you 'd be showing you take off anything or any part that you care to use . |
| 26 | We are very sorry the train at number eleven platform eleven , when you get to Lemington on it , get out if you 're going to Banbury , there will be a coach , because there 's a fire at Banbury , well I thought it meant there was something on the other side of the railway , it was , a factory near there so , so then er they get you in |
| 27 | There 's something on the other side . |
| 28 | There the post is something on the erratic side , which explains the delay . |
| 29 | Perhaps that 's because being a larger lady I prefer to have something on the large side rather than the small ! |
| 30 | Moreover , a romantic feeling persists that to smoke puts one on the correct side of the political divide , along with the exploited rather than the exploiters . |