Example sentences of "stand [prep] one side " in BNC.
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| 1 | right the royal personage stands to one side and smiles so you know we could could come in for this . |
| 2 | The Mamur Zapt stands on one side of you , the Man on the other . |
| 3 | The women stand on one side , in straw hats , skirts and parasols . |
| 4 | Perhaps this happens to us ail as we age : our past lives detach themselves and stand to one side hesitantly , hardly believing the corporeal links to a former self . |
| 5 | Stand to one side when opening |
| 6 | Horst and Jurgen would stand to one side of the diggers and , as each turf was cut and while it was being stacked , they would investigate the hollow from which it had been removed . |
| 7 | She saw the housemaid , Lily , standing on one side , and Philip , grey and hollow-eyed with fear , holding on to Eileen . |
| 8 | Kozyrev highlighted the spirit of co-operation between the two sides : " We worked as friends and allies standing on one side of the barricade of all the problems that beset us on the other . " |
| 9 | But one day at the club when he trotted out this phrase during some heated discussion in the midst of a little group of members ( all of them persons of some consequence ) , Nicholas Stavrogin who was standing to one side alone and unnoticed , suddenly went up to Mr Gaganov and , taking him unexpectedly and firmly with two fingers by the nose , managed to drag him two or three steps across the room . |
| 10 | ‘ There ! ’ he said triumphantly , standing to one side and pointing to the ground . |
| 11 | Standing to one side , the sound is muffled and boomy . |
| 12 | Ernest looked through the lens and made some last-minute adjustments , then beckoned Rosie , who was standing to one side , watching . |
| 13 | She looked them over one by one , Unice and Alice , Peter and Dorian , Jack and George and Eric , Stephan was there and Anna , standing to one side , Teresa , Miranda , Anita , Sasha , Livia and Miriam . |
| 14 | If there was six foot four of muscle , tensed and angry in the last minutes of its life , and your only protection was some lunatic hoodlum standing to one side with a loaded pistol pointed in the general direction of the fray , would you leap in there ? |
| 15 | And after that they all took over , shielding Hilary from Ryan , who was standing to one side , being comprehensively ignored . |
| 16 | The church stood on one side of the narrow street , a lovely old building of dark grey stone , and opposite it was the Vicarage , a tumbledown house which in summer would be completely hidden by tall trees . |
| 17 | The handlers stood on one side , each holding his bird in a double grip , one arm underneath for support , the fingers of the other hand loosely grasping the crop . |
| 18 | The constable stood to one side to allow the detectives to file past him , Norman Pinder slouching between them . |
| 19 | The boy stood to one side . |
| 20 | He stood to one side of the bay window and watched beyond the net curtains . |
| 21 | Thomas Sachs stood to one side of her , his blue eyes bright beneath the shock of white , swept-back hair . |
| 22 | The other three stood to one side , in a line , at attention . |
| 23 | As we went out through the kitchen door , I dropped my talcum powder and things and stood to one side , towards the window-sill , as if I was looking to see where they 'd gone . |
| 24 | She stood to one side and observed this pathetic self-deluding fifty-two-year-old in a state of romantic yearning and sexual excitation . |
| 25 | She stood to one side as the woman got up and , casting the strait-jacket aside , went across to the cot , bending down over it to lift and cradle the child . |
| 26 | So , too , the third of them , Stevens , who stood to one side , looking back at the wall-length window and its view of the great circle of the spaceport 's landing apron . |
| 27 | Alex picked a bloom from the large bouquet of mixed carnations which stood to one side of her desk and held it to her nose , savouring the cinnamon scent . |
| 28 | The gambling king stood to one side , wrapped in a black kimono , a white scarf knotted at his throat . |
| 29 | The rifleman stood to one side of me . |
| 30 | Nearby , a cart horse had just been released from its harness and was busy munching at its fodder ; the up-ended cart stood to one side . |