Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | The days of the week were listed on the left side and a space of perhaps one inch by five was allowed for brief jottings . |
| 2 | All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined . |
| 3 | As all the carcinomas were located on the right side of the colon , except the rectal carcinoma , which was found by rigid sigmoidoscopy , barium enema would seem to be an appropriate initial method of investigation . |
| 4 | The German mortars were exploding on the other side of the wood as I clambered out of the trench and made my way through the trees in the direction of the road . |
| 5 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 6 | ‘ The appeal proceedings were intituled on the civil side of the court ( although their Lordships have no doubt that they were proceedings in a criminal cause or matter ) … |
| 7 | This last was not such a great risk , because most of the stage staff were needed on the Prompt Side at that point in the play for a forthcoming scene change . |
| 8 | The idea that the colonies might be told to go their own way was not considered ; an administrative system was set up to make sure that the King 's orders were obeyed on the far side of the Atlantic as much as in the more distant parts of the British Isles — it was realized that he could not expect complete obedience , and in some respects the system was losing its impetus even by the beginning of the eighteenth century , but the shift from the Greek pattern of virtual independence to the Roman pattern of general obedience in the colonies had been made and there was no reason to think it would be reversed . |
| 9 | False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday ’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . |
| 10 | Of course somebody , Who Shall Be Nameless , would bring up the subject of Burns-And-You-Know-What , and how many of his children were born on The Wrong Side Of The Blanket , What Right Had We to look down on Brown Owl for her shotgun wedding when we were all supposed to look up to Rabbie Burns as Our Big Hero ? |
| 11 | There was Boa Island , of the baleful idols , for we were staying on the inward side of Ulster 's wall , the Dartry Mountains and the great haunted head of Benbulbin . |
| 12 | By contrast with the previous recording , only one embolic signal was detected in the left middle cerebral artery during the whole 20 min ; again none were detected on the right side . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yuan and Alexei were seated on the far side of the space which lay between the tables . |
| 15 | They were seated on the far side , some in chairs , some leaning on the desk . |
| 16 | When the fear eased , she had banged on the locked wooden door , but there had been no response , apart from the laughter of the guards who were stationed on the other side . |
| 17 | The pair were spawning on the vertical side of their chosen rock facing away from the front of the tank . |
| 18 | The dispute had its origins in the battle of Wakefield , at which Sir Thomas Harrington of Hornby and his eldest son John were killed on the Yorkist side . |
| 19 | The dispute had its origins in the battle of Wakefield , at which Sir Thomas Harrington of Hornby and his eldest son John were killed on the Yorkist side . |
| 20 | The girl was walking on the other side of the pavement . |
| 21 | Not only that , but the way the light came around the edges and through the door would enable you to perceive clearly and in three dimensions what was happening on the other side of the door ! |
| 22 | Another smaller wood was located on the opposite side of the park . |
| 23 | He was living on the wrong side of the highway . |
| 24 | Nigel could n't actually see what the doctor was writing on the other side of his desk , but he could guess . |
| 25 | Most people said I should get probation , but I was looking on the black side and thought I would get a sentence of three to five years . |
| 26 | Ex-Wigan favourite Iro was looking on the bright side yesterday . |
| 27 | What she should be doing was looking on the bright side . |
| 28 | The new factory was built on the far side of the property , leaving Barlaston surveying a fine sweep of parkland down to a river widened to look like a lake . |
| 29 | The present church was built on the opposite side of the road in 1814 and was originally a very plain structure with a square tower at the west end . |
| 30 | Jed did n't know it , but Celia was listening on the other side of the curtain , her laughter stifled by a mouthful of number 42 . |