Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] from side [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was working and all of a sudden and one the woman began to sing Rock of Ages in a loud voice and then the man joined in and I sort of thought I heard sort of and I thought oh , they 've got a bottle which they 've taken out of their pockets which they were passing from side to side .
2 But the tracer was weaving from side to side .
3 Only her head was free to move by now and this she was tossing from side to side , her eyes rolling in panic , while her fear was further expressed in snorts and whimpers .
4 What I did was to teeter from side to side like a tall mast on a small ship in a heavy sea .
5 It was , it was going from side to side .
6 Already the basket was swinging from side to side in the wind .
7 The girl had had her hands over her face and was rolling from side to side .
8 He was buffeted from side to side , and swore in what Anne thought was an Australian accent .
9 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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