Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep climbing up the fell side , gradually bearing right to a small cairn at the end of the ridge where several paths meet . |
| 2 | Twisting into the first side street and then a smaller street off that and along its full length he ran and ran as fast as his legs would carry him . |
| 3 | Legitimate drug rackets are after all not only lucrative — there 's gold in them there pills ( Klass 1975 ) — but they also provide the occasion for seeing oneself — if you are involved in them — as sharper , shrewder , and more powerful than those ending up the wrong side of the law . |
| 4 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 5 | But better still is the delightful Gothic cloister which opens on the southern side of the nave , an asylum all the more praiseworthy for opening on the far side on to the street , and with an admirable fig tree standing in one corner to remind you that , northern Gothic or no , you are in the south . |
| 6 | He was abreast with the lorry when I saw the oncoming small black car overtaking on the other side , and overtaking fast . |
| 7 | She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side . |
| 8 | Note that the G appearing on the right-hand side of ( 7.16 ) is the usual gravitational constant and not some contraction of a tensor . |
| 9 | Not only that , but the way the light came around the edges and through the door would enable you to perceive clearly and in three dimensions what was happening on the other side of the door ! |
| 10 | Lurking on the wrong side of a maul following a drop-out , Quins ' prop , Mullins , had his nose broken by an elbow in the face . |
| 11 | Stitch braid or fringing to the right side on the lower edge . |
| 12 | It was only by chance , returning on the other side , that she saw its brass plate . |
| 13 | I dare say a good many rabbits would have kept quiet and thought about keeping on the right side of the Chief , but I 'm afraid I 'm not much good at that . |
| 14 | He 'd hired a smart car for their visit ; he joked with Mary Rose about driving on the right side of the road . |
| 15 | Like every rule , it has means by which it is enforced ; in this case , if I break the rule of driving on the left-hand side of the road I can be prosecuted under a law of the land . |
| 16 | Three of the ‘ Dainty Dozen ’ ( as the 482nd christened them ) who had been MT drivers during the war drove the party around in a 12-seater minibus that flew Union Jacks to warn the unsuspecting American public that they were not used to driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 17 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 18 | Er , this will obviously stop people driving on the wrong side of the road but it certainly wo n't or it wo n't prevent the excessive use of this service road which is very narrow indeed . |
| 19 | It is true , causeway because of the situation that exists we do have people driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 20 | There is a local problem of some substance , the police have been there , it is a matter because of circumstances people driving on the wrong side of the road , it 's certainly dangerous conditions er and I think it 's reasonable to er take up councillor the this is the practical problem the committee could look at tonight . |
| 21 | The German mortars were exploding on the other side of the wood as I clambered out of the trench and made my way through the trees in the direction of the road . |
| 22 | And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock . |
| 23 | The girl was walking on the other side of the pavement . |
| 24 | Midland 's expertise in looking after the financial side of your family 's welfare . |
| 25 | This is a unique feeling as instead of your arms pulling on the boom , you are looking from the other side of the sail and pushing . |
| 26 | but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely . |
| 27 | But by the interval they had fallen further behind , Tom Hillier sprinting to the blind side and Ian Armstrong crossing for the try in support . |
| 28 | Jed did n't know it , but Celia was listening on the other side of the curtain , her laughter stifled by a mouthful of number 42 . |
| 29 | Rain was sure she was listening on the other side of it . |
| 30 | It 's extraordinary to be sitting in the middle and listening to the different sides of the argument . |