Example sentences of "down [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regulars , as she put it , had mostly departed and she and her husband were soon going to close down that side of the business for the winter . |
| 2 | Turn down that side bit and it 'll bring you to the swimming baths . |
| 3 | what down , all down that side ? |
| 4 | Dad , dad , the crews will be sweeping down that side passage and then coming over and then past my window again . |
| 5 | To achieve a smoother finish when painting nails , stroke carefully down each side with the brush , followed by one stroke down the middle . |
| 6 | I go down this side street where there ai n't so many big shops . |
| 7 | ‘ There were houses all down this side of the street once , ’ said Mrs Darne , ‘ but they were bombed in the war . |
| 8 | Every time I took a big breath I were getting short pains all down this side ? |
| 9 | Behind that is a straight metal piece ( lets call that the needle ) which has a metal strip running down either side , sitting snugly against the needle . |
| 10 | Her head-dress was old-fashioned , two veils of pleated lawn falling down either side of her heart-shaped face and fastened under the chin by a bejewelled gorget . |
| 11 | Although mantle plumes do not drive the rifting in this model , the surface uplift caused by underplating would assist the rifting process as diverging plates would tend to slide down either side of a hot-spot swell . |
| 12 | The place looked heart-wrenchingly familiar , yet in several respects changed too , for as they pulled up below the main steps the first things she noticed were the banks of geraniums and polyanthus cascading over the balconies and frothing down either side of the entrance . |
| 13 | And er you can just walk down either side of it . |
| 14 | It 's not a pleasant thing to be walking up and down those side streets off Soho Square and those neighbourhoods on your own on a dark night in the winter . |
| 15 | It 's getting light as we scramble down one side of a blown bridge across a river , then scramble up the other side , slipping down , and pulling each other up again until we are all assembled on a grassy bank . |
| 16 | On a Sunday , they could go down to chapel , the old girls 'd to go down one side of the aisle , they 'd go down the other , the old men , tried to put his hand out , touch the old lady … |
| 17 | I had to climb off and lead him out , and he was covered in mud all down one side . ’ |
| 18 | But seated half-way down one side of the table and with no one opposite her sat an old lady . |
| 19 | ‘ The field was illuminated by lights fixed to five standards running down one side behind the spectators . |
| 20 | ‘ Then I saw my wife , drenched and burned all down one side , and we were together again . |
| 21 | She reached over and balanced the candle , which was dripping wax down one side . |
| 22 | An open clay channel runs down one side of the labyrinthine staircase . |
| 23 | A recommended route is to walk down one side of Lake Rotoiti and catch a water-taxi back , a stroll of about seven miles . |
| 24 | Taking a deep breath , he than walked slowly and sedately down one side of the lane , keeping to the shadows , praying that none of the neighbours would report a suspicious man creeping along the back of the houses . |
| 25 | At this point it might well happen that blocks of shops and houses would be built down one side of the market place , taking the place of a number of stalls , and so creating the plan , described above , where the original open space is reduced to a broad main street , with a detached block of buildings down one side , behind which is a narrow back street , as at St Albans , or Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire , to speak of only two examples . |
| 26 | Instead he was halfway down one side . |
| 27 | And er we 'd have to clear all those away , and the chairs would be put into rows as I say , the boys 'd sit down one side , the girls would sit down the other . |
| 28 | Nylon cord to equal the length of each vertical row of tape plus enough to thread across the top of the blind and out to one side , and then down one side . |
| 29 | The miners ' ladder-way in Bonsor East Shaft ran down one side of the shaft in the usual manner — highly risky to the climber rubbing shoulders with the up-and-down moving pump rods , and the iron rising water-main . |
| 30 | ‘ Mm , and if we do n't move I 'm going to be burned all down one side . ’ |