Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on [num] side " in BNC.

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1 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 . "
2 It was rumpled , with the impression of their bodies clear on one side and across the middle .
3 If all plausible values fall on one side of this point , this result may clarify the issues and thus assist decision-making .
4 The women stand on one side , in straw hats , skirts and parasols .
5 Then there were the unwritten rules : girls travelling by train were not to travel in carriages with boys , and walking to school in the mornings , boys walked on one side of the road , girls on the other .
6 He invented the radiometer , a perplexing scientific toy in which a small propeller contained in an evacuated bulb has its vanes blackened on one side ; when light falls on it , the propeller turns .
7 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 .
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