Example sentences of "[prep] side to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | The first glimpse of Montserrat is always deeply moving as it begins to rise like a vast ragged curtain on the evening horizon , mysterious and slightly sinister in its grandeur as it looms ever nearer in Goya-like menace , shifting from side to side of the bus until it vanishes behind us . |
2 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |
3 | The tall slender piers support a high vault and there is no triforium or clerestory wall to obstruct the vista from end to end and from side to side of the church , only a forest of delicate piers . |
4 | From side to side of the field , the army buzzed , like a harp strung with horse-hair , and the sun rose higher ahead above the black forest of pine mixed with alder and birch that closed the battleground at its far end , and within which the Northumbrian army was waiting . |
5 | It is characterised by a tightly controlled method of weaving , where a shuttle passing from side to side of the loom between the warp threads creates loop pile or fine velvet carpeting that has a high density with a very smooth regular surface . |