Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on the [adj] side " in BNC.

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1 I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma .
2 The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye .
3 He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move .
4 The main street of the village faced them on the other side of the Westport road .
5 ‘ Like it ? ’ asked Sergeant , who had dashed round through the gate and now welcomed them on the other side .
6 The dark bulk of St Catherine 's faced him on the other side of the wide road .
7 He hit the ball left to right and he shaped it on the left-hand side on a sand dune , but it dropped in the dune on top of a hillock .
8 Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior .
9 When Richard came a couple of steps nearer — it would never have occurred to him to go back until the matter was satisfactorily settled — Harry , looking faintly surprised , as though he could n't believe that anything could be quite so simple , raised the adjustable spanner and hit him on the left side of the head , just below the ear .
10 Hubert James Bainbridge , tenth earl of Donnington , called out to his daughter as she passed him on the opposite side of the street , but she did not hear him .
11 What Hornung had done was to take his brother-in-law 's famous detective , Sherlock Holmes , and put him on the wrong side of the law ; a friendly dedication acknowledged the debt .
12 Like the dozens of blue uniformed Serbs , who hold the high ground around outlying Serbian villages to the east of Sarajevo , the bands of Muslims who greeted me on the other side with loud applause expected I would somehow provide aid .
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