Example sentences of "[verb] on one [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only sometimes that I 'd wake and find Bernard snoring on one side of me and Uncle Bill giving an occasional snort on the other . |
| 2 | There were no houses in sight : the wooded mountain rose on one side of the old railway track and fell steeply away on the other . |
| 3 | The question of exactly which left handers have speech located on one side of the brain or the other and which of them have speech represented bilaterally can not yet be answered unequivocally . |
| 4 | Also , there is a 14 amino acids long putative alpha helical region at positions 328 to 341 containing 8 alanine residues , 6 of which would be located on one side of the putative alpha helix . |
| 5 | The peaks of these complexes are successively located on one side of the baseline and then on the other , and this positive then negative polarity in the frontal plane of the ECG creates the typical twisting-about-a-point appearance ( fig 1 ) . |
| 6 | What happens when you ‘ plate ’ is that you get the main yarn appearing on one side of the fabric and the plating yarn on the other side . |
| 7 | Now if you get these right , word for word you 'll be er , I do conditions of carriage quizzes on selling skills courses and the amount of people that get this right I can count on one hand in the last three years . |
| 8 | The Mamur Zapt stands on one side of you , the Man on the other . |
| 9 | In this discussion we want to concentrate on one aspect of marking : how the source file can be sent electronically to the marker and how the marker can make use of this electronic form . |
| 10 | Able to concentrate on one search at a time 1 |
| 11 | This is an acceptable solution if we expect to concentrate on one form of arithmetic for a number of instructions , but if we are using several forms ( for example , floating-point calculations with address computation in fixed-point format ) then we have to change the contents of the mode register continually . |
| 12 | That 's the bit that joins on one side of the main entrance area ? |
| 13 | We stopped on one side of the narrow road . |
| 14 | You could also concentrate on one type of client , such as those accused of crime or needing other forms of specialist advice . |
| 15 | This intake of information from several sources at once is a complex process , and the value to learners of silent viewing is that it lets them concentrate on one element at a time . |
| 16 | The two 1973 elections , i.e. for Local Government as well as the Assembly , were held immediately after the advertising campaign and the electorate could concentrate on one method of voting , but since that time two Westminster elections were conducted by means of the X-vote , and it is possible that some voters may have been confused . |
| 17 | He looked at me with his head cocked on one side like a bright-eyed bird . |
| 18 | ‘ We were caught on one foot with our fingers in our mouths , ’ said one dealer , referring to widespread expectations of a hung Parliament . |
| 19 | MANY mothers agreed with Helen Bullock that men can only focus on one thing at a time . |
| 20 | In some situations this type of abrupt and complete switch-over is necessary since it is not possible to have both old and new methods running side by side ( for example in switching over from driving on one side of the road to the other as in Sweden ) . |
| 21 | For the simple reason you know you one of the if someone starts on one person in our group all the rest of the group can get together and get them . |
| 22 | Ceramic tiles are thin slabs of fired clay decorated on one side with coloured glazes , and often with a printed or handpainted pattern too . |
| 23 | Ecstatic , the boy tried on one mask after another , roaring like a lion or mewing like a cat . |
| 24 | While faith-healing tends to work on one part of the body , Reiki treats the whole system . ’ |
| 25 | DB2 Version 3 will enable users to work on one partition of a table space or index space without locking the other partitions . |
| 26 | In mainland Europe the spacing between tracks and reversible signalling enables engineers to work on one track in complete safety while traffic continues to pass on the other . |
| 27 | All I had to do was stand around pretending to pull on one end of a tug-of war rope while a load of peers pulled on the other , as Jerry stood by attracting the tabloids ' photographers . |
| 28 | It crashed on one side of a thick hedge . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm sorry , ’ Chesarynth said automatically , trying to look as though it were normal to stand on one leg with her skirt round her knees . |
| 30 | The Muslims believe that the spot marks Adam 's punishment for disobedience and that here he was made to stand on one foot for a very long time . |