Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] from side to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He rushed forward to the battery box , loosened the terminal caps and moved them from side to side . |
2 | He was heading straight into the wind and the force of it buffeted him from side to side until his sense of direction became totally confused . |
3 | nodding his head , bobbing it from side to side , achingly conscious of how stupid he must look , " Yup , looks like wine to me . " |
4 | A change of position may help to minimise this , such as raising the head or turning them from side to side . |
5 | A man had his arm around her , rocking her from side to side as the singers swayed with their patriotic song . |
6 | ‘ Hit it , ’ he said , seizing el grip with a painful vice and swinging it from side to side . |
7 | ‘ Oh God , it 's going to be a terrible place ! ’ cries Howard to his fellow-guests around the Chases ' dinner table , holding his head and rocking it from side to side in humorous despair . |
8 | They feed with their heads upside-down , sweeping them from side to side . |
9 | Antoinette 's legs and feet twitched under the covers , would suddenly throw themselves from side to side . |
10 | The huer 's job , after announcing the sighting of the shoal , was to guide his own boat to the fish , signalling East or West by removing his coat and waving it from side to side and , when the boat was on top of the shoal , by placing his coat on his telescope and holding it aloft . |
11 | From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again . |