Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] side [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It looks like the other side of the road to me , ’ murmured Bill Waddy . |
| 2 | ‘ Now even bands from the other side of the world had heard of Montgomery Pipe Band , ’ said Gordon . |
| 3 | And of course he goes in and the horse drops in the far side of the wee barn , and er Old goes in with his dram and he dips it into the horse trough you ken , and he turns you ken with his regimental , |
| 4 | At that time the square was bigger , with the palazzo standing at its centre , and the northern limit being the Palazzo Giureconsulti which now stands on the far side of Via Mercanti . |
| 5 | That is why the man with binoculars stands on the opposite side of the road . |
| 6 | Caught up in the concern to balance the power of the Commons is an attempt to recapture elements of the eighteenth-century constitution in a way that waters down the democratic side of the state machine ; caught up in the concern to secure a more independent House of Commons is an attempt to revive the pre-democratic nineteenth-century liberal constitution ; and caught up in the concern to limit parliamentary sovereignty is an attempt to limit democracy itself . |
| 7 | MISERY GUTS Rod Mackay never looks on the bright side of life he does n't believe there is one ! |
| 8 | But Rainbow lives on the wrong side of the big white screen , and is a child of her time : she does n't just look before she leaps , but holds a seminar on the pros and cons . |
| 9 | Ostland lies on the far side of the Middle Mountains and a great part of it is occupied by the Forest of Shadows . |
| 10 | I shall now go some of the way up this valley , as far as the Col du Tourmalet at the end of it — what lies on the far side of the col must wait for the section of this chapter on the valley of the Adour . |
| 11 | Freud was right , Maud thought , vigorously rubbing her white legs , desire lies on the other side of repugnance . |
| 12 | Mesquite lies on the other side of miles and miles of rising desert temper . |
| 13 | Individualizing traits are the girl 's witty use of " " fayllard " " , meaning both " unsuccessful " ( with her ) and " good-for-nothing " ( generally ) and her vulgar but effective way of telling the clerk his place lies on the other side of the door to her . |
| 14 | ‘ and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence ’ |
| 15 | The reservoir is a grim and comfortless place , flanked to north and west by the exceedingly severe Pic de Néouvielle and Pic Long — the Pic Long , 10,480 feet high , being the highest summit the entirety of which lies on the French side of the frontier . |
| 16 | This figure lies on the high side of our initial estimate but two factors must be borne in mind . |
| 17 | The ‘ Land of Milk and Honey ’ shimmers on the far side of the Dead Sea , when seen from Mount Nebo ; from ‘ the Place of Sacrifice ’ in Petra , the white tomb of Aaron is a gazelle 's leap away . |
| 18 | The promontory itself dissolves on the seaward side into rocks and inlets , including the delightful cove of the Plage du Port-Vieux , a sheltered bathing place recommended ‘ for persons who are weakly or unaccustomed to the sea ’ as my old Baedeker considerately puts it . |
| 19 | In the first of a new series , Richard Jackson of Radio 5 's Morning Edition looks at the quirky side of gardening life |
| 20 | Although European railway executives see British rail traffic as important , it is quite clear that it is not crucial to plans for the development of a European network which will proceed whatever happens on the other side of the Channel . |
| 21 | Both orbits are described as sun-synchronous because the relationship between the positions of the satellite , the sun and the Earth is maintained as the satellite passes over the illuminated side of the Earth , so that the local sun time on the ground immediately below the satellite is approximately the same , around 9.30 am . |
| 22 | The eruptions , however , occur directly above the point of strain in the asthenosphere where they happen — meaning that a line of volcanoes and volcanic islands occurs to the landward side of the colliding plates . |
| 23 | In his book Mind Over Golf ( BBC Books , £8.99 ) , he deals with the mental side of the game and features the left and right brains , which is news to those limping along with one . |
| 24 | I , Bella laughed , I 'm just the aunt , the one who sees lessons are done , the one who teaches and organizes and cooks and mends and deals with the practical side of life . |
| 25 | A flight of steps goes up the left-hand side of the gallery . |
| 26 | Back towards the house , a wattle fence divides off the western side of the garden . |
| 27 | Then , years later — and she takes after the tall side of the family — she said , ‘ Now I am creature great , and you are creature small . ’ |
| 28 | If Photoflo creeps onto the reverse side of the grid , it may leave drying artefacts . |
| 29 | But when he gets to the other side of the crossroads it 's not Rose , after all . |
| 30 | When s/he gets to the other side of the circle s/he is gently redirected across again . |