Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] on the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | I now see a certain awkwardness in the way Summerchild sits on the other side of my desk . |
| 2 | This figure lies on the high side of our initial estimate but two factors must be borne in mind . |
| 3 | Gregory works on the technical side , liaising with the sound and lighting people and drawing up set lists . |
| 4 | Freud was right , Maud thought , vigorously rubbing her white legs , desire lies on the other side of repugnance . |
| 5 | Individualizing traits are the girl 's witty use of " " fayllard " " , meaning both " unsuccessful " ( with her ) and " good-for-nothing " ( generally ) and her vulgar but effective way of telling the clerk his place lies on the other side of the door to her . |
| 6 | Danger looms on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 7 | Michael Doohan keeps on the right side of the law , though few cops would dare book the nation 's new two-wheel hero |
| 8 | Ostland lies on the far side of the Middle Mountains and a great part of it is occupied by the Forest of Shadows . |
| 9 | ‘ The burden of the evidence rests on the other side to disprove whatever it is , and not on the other side to disprove the other side 's evidence . |
| 10 | But Rainbow lives on the wrong side of the big white screen , and is a child of her time : she does n't just look before she leaps , but holds a seminar on the pros and cons . |
| 11 | The advantage of this over , say tuck or slip stitch is that the pattern appears on the right side of the garment . |
| 12 | As for the opposition , Gaselee has his eyes on Royal Athlete who finished third in the Cheltenham Gold Cup , Zeta 's Lad who has won five races this season , but is doubtful if the ground remains on the firm side and surprisingly Garrison Savannah who has been rather overlooked by the National pundits this year . |
| 13 | Climbing steep snow in a series of zigzags as in ( Fig. 2b ) , the axe is held in the uphill hand and the rope goes on the downhill side direct to the next person on the rope . |
| 14 | Although this road emerges on the eastern side of the town , attempts to trace it much further have failed . |
| 15 | Mesquite lies on the other side of miles and miles of rising desert temper . |
| 16 | That is why the man with binoculars stands on the opposite side of the road . |
| 17 | That is how Captain James T Kirk of the USS Enterprise first sees each week 's new adversary ; it is by flat-panel TV that Winston Smith keeps on the right side of Big Brother . |
| 18 | The castle looms on the other side of the river . |