Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] side " in BNC.

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1 When Sal and Kitty first set eyes on my prize , they could n't stop jumping up and down with excitement and even helped me to paint down one side , ‘ Charlie Trumper , the honest trader , founded in 1823 ’ .
2 Yes , and I , and I wiped down one side
3 As I walked down one side of the hall , keeping close to the sides , and scurrying past the classroom doors , I felt my face grow hot .
4 I Dreamed up two sides of beef , fresh butchered and dripping pink and red .
5 I go down this side street where there ai n't so many big shops .
6 I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing .
7 The storage and preparation of food took place on the north side , where the Eastons have made a studio out of the old pentice , called the tempting shed , which ran along that side .
8 It 's getting light as we scramble down one side of a blown bridge across a river , then scramble up the other side , slipping down , and pulling each other up again until we are all assembled on a grassy bank .
9 So they switched off one side of their brains in order to purge fatigue poisons from their systems while the other cerebral hemisphere remained alert for intruders …
10 They took up opposite sides of the room , approaching the concealing curtain with extreme caution , the stubby barrels of the Uzi submachine gun ready to blast anything that leapt forward .
11 It hung off all sides of his hand like a lump of uncooked dough .
12 He sliced round one side , then the other , removed two saucer-shaped pieces of rind from either end , made a transverse cut across the middle and gradually lifted the fruit from the peel , put it down and held up a pair of spectacles to Caterina 's face , two owl eyes of orange peel on a single stem .
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