Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] from side to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Leanne : ( Swinging body from side to side ) It moves with me , look .
2 Osman shook his heavy , turbanned head from side to side as if bemused .
3 Chicanes are created by alternating strips of right-angle parking on opposite sides of the road , reinforced by a shifting of the designated carriageway from side to side .
4 While the female crouches , quivering her wings and fluffing up her feathers , the male hops from side to side behind her , pecking at her cloaca ( the joint exit of digestive and reproductive systems ) .
5 The grimy blots grew closer and bigger , sudden thunderclaps made visible , and hurled the little planes from side to side .
6 The front is even more striking — white with very strong black bands from side to side , becoming larger and thicker the further down the body they are .
7 The White Knight underlined this central question by shaking the aged man from side to side , until his face was blue .
8 It has a large round mark on either side of its head and when agitated , weaves its front end from side to side , making itself look unnervingly like a wide-eyed snake .
9 Turn a sprung mattress from side to side or end to end every six months
10 Pearce began to move along the outside of those windows now , hand by hand on the glass , staring inside ; as if he was walking on a ledge out there , fourteen storeys high , casting wild and terror-stricken looks from side to side .
11 The sun was low in the sky now , shimmering the mud flats in a golden glow — and there were the graceful avocets , sweeping long curved bills from side to side through the fine silt , scooping up their favourite opossum shrimps and rag worms : a marvellous sight .
12 When impala panic , they bound away making spectacular leaps from side to side , kicking their back legs into the air .
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