Example sentences of "[verb] from one side to " in BNC.

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1 From the clifftop he watched the small figure of Detective Furness in his red anorak on the saddle below , twisting from one side to another as he strained his eyes against the bright sunlight to search for his charge .
2 In those words the Neath guru encapsulated the debate that has raged and lurched from one side to another while a succession of coaches have sought in vain to establish a definitive Welsh style , during the years of consistent defeat since the 1988 Triple Crown .
3 A mechanical analogy is the Euler strut , where a beam is stable on either side of a centre line but unstable on it , passing from one side to the other discontinuously .
4 In order for plates to behave in the manner proposed the lithosphere of which they are composed must be sufficiently rigid compared with the underlying asthenosphere for stress to be transmitted from one side to the other .
5 Angry thunder cracks open like a oak splitting down the middle , to take over the horizon , cannoning from one side to another .
6 Well we counted twenty and then we were laughing so much we thought oh we 'd better stop her you know twenty sort of goes from one side to the side when she 's lying on her stomach .
7 This means that you zig-zag from one side to the other , twisting your centre-line as you move .
8 Aggie glanced at Ben ; then her head drooped and wobbled from one side to the other before she said , ‘ Well , if you do n't mind , miss . ’
9 Joseph replied with a renewed bid , this time of £43 million , Watney 's came back again with £47 million , and so the battle swayed from one side to the other for eight weeks .
10 It covers an area of some 150 acres and is very shallow ; indeed , prior to mass-afforestation , it was possible to wade from one side to the other , without danger , because the water was so clear .
11 But we could tell that it was longer because of the extra tape measures it would take to get from one side to the other . ’
12 Porter peered over the landing rail , through the steel netting that was strung from one side to the other , and noticed that , on the landing below , prisoners who had finished slopping out had not in fact returned to their cells but were standing outside , their attempts at entry barred by warders .
13 The results might have been worse : a number of cattle lost from one side to the other , some barns and carts burned , and half a dozen women held hostage and returned in other than mint condition .
14 Each day , in my duties , I got ferried from one side to the other .
15 The hatch in front of them flew open and the frame , tilted from one side to the other , gave them a sight of the wild sky outside .
16 He begins to shake , she 's rocked from one side to the other as she feels the tail thrash at the sea and Manjiku rear and toss .
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