Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on [num] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gardens extend on three sides of the city in a straight line for twelve thousand paces . ’ |
| 2 | Kozyrev highlighted the spirit of co-operation between the two sides : " We worked as friends and allies standing on one side of the barricade of all the problems that beset us on the other . " |
| 3 | Also , it 's not simply a garrison , it 's a fortified city ; with damned great walls and ditches and bastions built on three sides of it , and the sea to defend it on the fourth . ’ |
| 4 | It was rumpled , with the impression of their bodies clear on one side and across the middle . |
| 5 | If all plausible values fall on one side of this point , this result may clarify the issues and thus assist decision-making . |
| 6 | The women stand on one side , in straw hats , skirts and parasols . |
| 7 | Then there were the unwritten rules : girls travelling by train were not to travel in carriages with boys , and walking to school in the mornings , boys walked on one side of the road , girls on the other . |
| 8 | He invented the radiometer , a perplexing scientific toy in which a small propeller contained in an evacuated bulb has its vanes blackened on one side ; when light falls on it , the propeller turns . |
| 9 | The handlers stood on one side , each holding his bird in a double grip , one arm underneath for support , the fingers of the other hand loosely grasping the crop . |