Example sentences of "at the side " in BNC.
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1 | Your partner holds the pad at the side of the shin of the flexed leg . |
2 | The wheel he had mounted on a bit of rod from Stewart 's smithy still turned freely in the burn at the side of the kail-yard . |
3 | And he was — a small figure in a drab coat , lurking at the side of the crowd , speaking to nobody . |
4 | Just now the autumnal coolth was tonic and he breathed it in like drinking draughts of fresh milk , then took dippersful of water from the butt at the side of the house and sluiced his head into activity . |
5 | Once a dark toad clambered away towards the little burn at the side of the field . |
6 | I let my gaze wander to the open grassy strip at the side of the block , which was almost completely empty of life , and then on to the red buses and cars hurrying along the main road . |
7 | With the overall dimensions I had been given , it worked out easily that there could be three arches along the front to one at the side . |
8 | The body is laid out on the back with hands at the side , the eyes are closed ( coins or cotton wool on the eyelids will help ) the jaw supported by a pillow , and all the natural outlets of the body plugged with cotton wool . |
9 | The Franklin philosophy was learnt in the US leveraged buyout business at the side of Sir James Goldsmith . |
10 | The setting is the tea-room of the Ritz and the dress is slinky — a tight black jersey number , split at the side to allow a long , black-stockinged leg to be flourished with full drama . |
11 | Lack of space , for instance , has prevented Ford from building locker facilities — meaning that some shop-floor workers still have to change their clothes at the side of the production line . |
12 | Nor is there enough space at the side of the production lines to stock components . |
13 | We were escorting him to the door when there was a loud explosion at the side of the house . |
14 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
15 | We arrived at the weapon pit at the side of the road and close to a low wall . |
16 | I left them as I approached No. 6 Commando positions and stood at the side of the road and watched them all pass by . |
17 | Outside in the cobbled farmyard I glanced at the side of the barn . |
18 | As I drew nearer I noticed that half of the roof had gone and there was a large gaping hole in the wall at the side of the cottage . |
19 | Stopping the pipes and stepping out on the footpath at the side of the river I walked towards the Green Berets . |
20 | One of the French Commandos had been wounded ; he was lying close to the ditch at the side of the road , obviously in pain , his face the characteristic colour of the soldier who has been hit . |
21 | After he had eaten , they had their own dinner at the side table . |
22 | ‘ Mink are unnecessary killers and have a habit of decimating fish stocks if left to breed at the side of fisheries , so I will help the local clubs to get rid of them as soon as I can , ’ he added . |
23 | The immediate impression of directed dominance did not come from the man 's physique , impressive though that was , McLeish decided as he accepted the offered chair and placed Catherine at the side of the room . |
24 | The buttons of her cardigan were correctly done up and the collar flattened neatly , the zip of the skirt was in its proper place at the side and her tattered bedroom slippers had been replaced with a tidy pair of court shoes , the wrong colour for the skirt . |
25 | She then admits she does n't know the difference between the head line and the heart line , although she 's able to identify the little crinkle at the side of the hand that tells you how many children you 're going to have . |
26 | He came in at the side door as though he knew his own way . |
27 | They left the wooden sleepers for the steel path at the side of the structure . |
28 | At the side of the house , across a cobbled yard , lay an L-shaped stable block . |
29 | Emily guided Mungo through a gate at the side which led to a long , overgrown garden with a large , unsteady-looking wooden shed at the bottom . |
30 | He had reached the flatter section of land at the side of the house where vegetables had once grown in neatly fenced patches . |