Example sentences of "down [prep] the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | Directed by Alston , the screaming ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ turned off and shot down through the narrow side streets of the Arab quarter . |
| 2 | Immediately the engine noise grew even louder , drowning out the sound of Delaney 's own voice as he shouted an acknowledgement to the sergeant and settled down in the nearest side seat , strapping himself in . |
| 3 | He sat down on the far side of the room and I caught only a brief view of him through the dancers , but it was undoubtedly Ralph Pike still at large . |
| 4 | The way down on the eastern side , where I 'm bound , is not so steep , but on the other it 's a hard climb and a risky one . |
| 5 | Tossing his case over the top of it , he scrambled up and dropped lightly down on the other side . |
| 6 | Looking up at the north-facing slope ahead you would see snow and ice and you would tremble , but you would know that coming down on the other side , you would walk in sunshine , through green grass and sweet-smelling flowers . |
| 7 | She sat down on the other side of the desk . |
| 8 | Masklin ran over the shoe , jumped down on the other side , and ran on . |
| 9 | A hundred yards down on the other side of the road a knot of men were gathered . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've a hunch , ’ he said , putting the heavy volume down on the other side of the board to the knives and the water . |
| 11 | By the light of the fires he could see Paul already sitting cross-legged on a buffalo skin by the pholy , and he sank gratefully down on the other side of him . |
| 12 | She dropped down on the other side of the sweetheart plant from Rain , bowed her head , rested her right hand lightly on the keys , shut her eyes tight and concentrated . |
| 13 | She preferred the additional wearisome walk , half an hour up and half an hour back down on the other side , to bothering one of these absorbed people . |
| 14 | Clinging to this assurance , Isabel listened to the rain beating down on the other side of the wall and refused to think about her peculiar reactions to fitzAlan any longer . |
| 15 | The mirror is then placed on top of the straight-edge ( or a thin timber batten ) and lined up with it , tapped lightly to ‘ spread the cut ’ , and broken by pressing firmly down on the two sides of the cut . |
| 16 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 17 | Turn right into er what is a very busy er road in any event at that time but that the dangers is that many drivers are becoming impatient with waiting their turn in the queue and what they 're doing is driving down on the wrong side of the road in order to utilise a little back road that 's a service road which runs alongside road and leads into Nightingale avenue . |
| 18 | He went back to the girl , sat down on the opposite side of the desk and gave a brisk nod . |
| 19 | Here is one of those places , then , where the frontier does not follow the ridge of the mountains , but takes a sudden dive down on the French side . |
| 20 | Six weeks later , CT scanning showed a bulky pancreas and a large pseudocyst of the lesser sac , with fluid tracked down on the left side of the retroperitoneum in the anterior compartment , anterior to Gerota 's fascia as far as the left iliac dossa . |
| 21 | Further down on the same side are the remains of Foxholes Side Lock , which served Foxholes Basin , now filled in. the banks hereabouts are in a poor state of repair and restoration has been in progress between here and the m62 Trans-Pennine Motorway bridge . |
| 22 | on nine , facing Tufnell , digs out a full-length ball and guides it down on the off side , poor old David Lawrence has to give another painful chase their from backward point , but er , he lumbers after it and sends it an energetic return on the er , he 's swivelling round as he threw it . |
| 23 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
| 24 | Turn the buckram down to the wrong side on the marked top edge of the curtain and tack it in place . |
| 25 | He could hear her barking and looked down over the steep side of the embankment to the bottom of the trees . |
| 26 | ‘ They will have gone down by the other side , ’ said Allan Stewart , ‘ it is their quickest way . ’ |