Example sentences of "[verb] from [noun] to side [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back .
2 Above the uproar , Gerrard signaled furiously at the men with the microphones , and they fell back to the sides of the studio , pulling the microphones away from eagerly reaching hands , and Gerrard began to walk backward toward the dais , looking from side to side as he went .
3 He remained nearly half an hour turning from side to side as though watching some great action which extended over the whole visible forest .
4 The cud is thoroughly masticated — the jaw can move from side to side as well as up and down — before it is finally passed into the digestive system where the job of extracting everything of nutritive value will be carried out .
5 Her long hair was pulled through its centre to spring from her crown like a pony-tail that swished from side to side as she moved .
6 Sharks in general are n't flattened from side to side as free-swimming bony fish like herrings are .
7 She stole into the kitchen to find Sabina and beg some hot water in secret , before the others found her out ; Sabina giggled and her eyes flicked from side to side as Rosa described how she must have sleep-walked , how dangerous it was , how someone could have accidentally woken her and she might have fallen down , without being able to put out a hand to stop her fall , and died .
8 The powerful driving fist of the surging tide was cuffing him off balance : he was rocked from side to side as it rose and fell .
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