Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] side [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ex-Wigan favourite Iro was looking on the bright side yesterday . |
| 2 | Nothing quite like it had been seen on the Allied side hitherto . |
| 3 | But he said he reckoned they probably shot a bit wide , and anyway the officers would see that they tried , and it was better to be shot by the other side rather than your own . |
| 4 | If the killer comes prowling around to their side of the tree , they simply dart to the blind side again . |
| 5 | By 4.30 I was cruising round Seymour swimming pool , parking on the blind side as far as Sedgeley House was concerned . |
| 6 | He must try and look on the positive side as far as Maisie 's conversion was concerned . |
| 7 | The subjective estimate could be based on pure hunch and guesswork at the end of period t - 1 , but in order to introduce a degree of empirical testability into the model it is normally assumed that is arrived at by some policy rule which includes on the right-hand side only those variables whose magnitudes are known at the end of the period t - 1 . |
| 8 | Maxim began strolling on the original side perhaps fifteen metres back . |
| 9 | Although preliminary construction began on the French side soon after the ratification of the Treaty of Canterbury in July 1987 , the main Channel Tunnel construction did not start until January 1988 . |
| 10 | I 'm confident that the scheme wo n't cost anything like as much as the estimate , but I 'm , I 'm sure it 's right that it 's been , having having done some background work to see how many people might claim it I 'm confident that that we 've erred on the safe side here by a substantial amount , and that 's why I 'm sure it can be met from the overall budget . |
| 11 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 12 | In other words , the logarithm of the price level , p , appears on the right-hand side instead of the first derivative of its natural value . |
| 13 | Most of the important taxonomic features are found on the ventral side particularly the arrangements of the plates around the jaw ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 14 | Repeat on the other side then repeat again on both sides . |
| 15 | Repeat to the other side then repeat ‘ double lifts ’ 4 more times to each side . |
| 16 | But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) . |
| 17 | If you go round the other side please Ann . |
| 18 | The negotiations have been carried out with utmost discretion , and involved on the Basque side just two members of the ruling Basque Nationalist Party ( apart from José Ardanza , the Basque government 's president ) and José Alberto Pradena , the governor of the Basque province of Guipuzcoa , the capital of which is Bilbao . |
| 19 | Television companies may to prefer to err on the safe side rather than to put their profits at risk by incurring sanctions of this order . |
| 20 | Entering on the French side still wrapped in cloud , you have a good chance of exiting on the Spanish side , as we did on the morning in question , in flawless sunshine and restorative heat . |
| 21 | He lived chancily , moved into many crises , both business and legal , but always emerged from the other side safely — and usually richer , more powerful . |
| 22 | I believe that one firm is at present training one male monotype operator , who is being taught by a woman , It is true that this evidence comes from the opposing side so to speak , but nowhere is a counter-assertion put forward by the union that men had applied to learn and been turned away . |
| 23 | Dave Rusby starred with bat and ball for Felixstowe , but ended on the losing side both days . |