Example sentences of "[prep] side to [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wore spectacles and behind the thick lenses his eyes were cloudy and shifted continually from side to side so you were never sure where he was looking . |
| 2 | Norris ' ideas seem highly plausible and if this amazing and beautiful process is a correct understanding of part of the physical aspects of the dolphin 's 3-D sonar system , it also explains why they move their heads from side to side while they are emitting their characteristic echo-locating clicks — they are simply scanning their targets for angular , 3-D information . |
| 3 | ‘ Of … of his- ’ Her dark head swung now from side to side before she muttered , ‘ feelings , possessiveness . |
| 4 | The base split from side to side but fortunately the water only seeped out . |
| 5 | The oscillations are usually from side to side but can be up and down . |
| 6 | Lying back on her pillows , Elinor slowly shook her head from side to side but said nothing . |
| 7 | Mary tottered up on her perch from side to side but nothing wiped the mild , sweet benignity from her doll 's face as she dropped the dew of her mercy down from heaven on the mortal exiles below wailing and weeping in the vale of tears . |
| 8 | He was heading straight into the wind and the force of it buffeted him from side to side until his sense of direction became totally confused . |
| 9 | Instead , Anna 's limbs suddenly began to jerk alarmingly and for several seconds she thrashed her head from side to side until tiny bubbles of foam appeared on her lips . |
| 10 | If at any point they lose the scent they fly in zig-zags from side to side until they catch it again , and then fly off upwind again . |
| 11 | Finally she fought , trying to escape that devastating possession , twisting her head frantically from side to side until Luke 's hands came up to still her struggles . |
| 12 | Muscle cramps can be relieved , and the animal 's sense of balance restored , by rocking a stranded dolphin or whale from side to side as the tide comes in , just before its refloating . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Her long hair was pulled through its centre to spring from her crown like a pony-tail that swished from side to side as she moved . |
| 15 | Above the uproar , Gerrard signaled furiously at the men with the microphones , and they fell back to the sides of the studio , pulling the microphones away from eagerly reaching hands , and Gerrard began to walk backward toward the dais , looking from side to side as he went . |
| 16 | Forty years later , I sat in the drawing-room of his home at Sevenoaks in Kent , watching him shake his head vigorously from side to side as he contemplated the ruins of his own efforts to resolve the Palestine problem . |
| 17 | He remained nearly half an hour turning from side to side as though watching some great action which extended over the whole visible forest . |
| 18 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |
| 19 | Furthermore , those species that accidentally forged some connecting suspension for the front legs independent of the skull would be among the first to walk , otherwise the head would have to turn constantly from side to side as it did so . |
| 20 | Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back . |
| 21 | The cud is thoroughly masticated — the jaw can move from side to side as well as up and down — before it is finally passed into the digestive system where the job of extracting everything of nutritive value will be carried out . |
| 22 | She stole into the kitchen to find Sabina and beg some hot water in secret , before the others found her out ; Sabina giggled and her eyes flicked from side to side as Rosa described how she must have sleep-walked , how dangerous it was , how someone could have accidentally woken her and she might have fallen down , without being able to put out a hand to stop her fall , and died . |
| 23 | Matthew shook his head from side to side as though trying to make a comprehensive denial . |
| 24 | The man hesitated , his eyes flicking nervously from side to side as he waited for the magic . |
| 25 | She slumps , exhausted , moving only her eyes from side to side as she follows our next exchange . |
| 26 | He began turning his head from side to side as he ran , to locate the source of the unknown danger . |
| 27 | Sharks in general are n't flattened from side to side as free-swimming bony fish like herrings are . |
| 28 | Turn a sprung mattress from side to side or end to end every six months |
| 29 | John Dykstra , with Richard Edlund and others , was able to set up a camera rig that moved very precisely in metal tracks , with the camera on an arm that could move up and down , while the camera itself could pan from side to side or tilt up and down or any combination or roll over to the side and also change focus as needed . |
| 30 | The horse can move its lower jaw from side to side when eating , and the jaw muscles drag the lower teeth inward in a grinding motion . |