Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [adj] side " in BNC.

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1 He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay .
2 ‘ Why am I on the wrong side of this stone ? ’ she whispered .
3 ‘ We do n't tell them of the major side effects for fear of losing them ’ Field worker , Kenya
4 See ye on the other side of the bend , if ye make it . ’
5 Let let me tell you about the damned side effects of this drug , because people are entitled to know what they .
6 As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ?
7 Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself .
8 If I can get across this road and the bridge I 'll take you over the other side and you might be able see the big tree trunk better .
9 See you on the other side , we called .
10 ‘ I thought I would leave a few of you on the G'bai side of the mountains with the pack beasts .
11 From Ainhoa the only road that will keep you on the French side of the Pyrenees runs more or less north-east , back towards Espelette .
12 I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them onto the other side of the hall .
13 I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ?
14 The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge .
15 They were fairly clumsy devices and only offered security from one side : anyone could unlock them from the other side .
16 The others were trying to drive the protesters away , and a fight seemed likely to break out at any minute , until a pair of uniformed police constables appeared , and stood watching them from the other side of the street .
17 Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side .
18 Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side .
19 The most widely accepted theory of human evolution — proposed largely by anthropologists , and based on fossil findings — connects the transformation of our early ancestors to some geological changes which trapped them in the eastern side of Africa 's Rift valley , in an environment that was suddenly drier and more open .
20 Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior .
21 Its appropriateness for the Foreign Office area was on grounds of association and sentiment , rather than visual harmony , as on one side there were buildings of ‘ predominating importance ’ , and no local association to conflict with them on the other side .
22 The main street of the village faced them on the other side of the Westport road .
23 For instance , yesterday he saw a funeral in a barge , fascinating — six women wrapped in coats in the boat , which the men were dragging along the canal through the heath , and the clergyman in his three-cornered hat and his breeches trailing them on the other side .
24 The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side .
25 ‘ Like it ? ’ asked Sergeant , who had dashed round through the gate and now welcomed them on the other side .
26 That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side .
27 There was one of them on the other side of the street .
28 There have been before the present application which was approved , there have been applications refused because the Oxford City Planning Committee were concerned particularly about er access and parking arrangements , and the effects of the extensions er on the front of the building , er very close to Sandy Lane , by the impact of those buildings in particular on residential amenity , on the houses and the occupants of them on the other side of Sandy Lane .
29 Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent .
30 They crossed the road to face the oncoming traffic and had just passed a 40 mph speed limit sign when he looked over his shoulder and saw a car heading towards them on the wrong side of the road .
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