Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] from side to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ) . |
2 | The grimy blots grew closer and bigger , sudden thunderclaps made visible , and hurled the little planes from side to side . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | When impala panic , they bound away making spectacular leaps from side to side , kicking their back legs into the air . |