Example sentences of "[vb past] on the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something moved on the farther side of the lochan , something hulky and dirty white , caught in the bog myrtle , where it shifted and billowed in the breeze . |
| 2 | The general assumption by everyone involved on the Allied side , from 5 Corps up to AFHQ , had been that , in terms of the Yalta repatriation agreement , the " Cossacks " were Soviet citizens , and on that basis the decision in Principle had been made that , however much this may have regretted by some people on humanitarian grounds , the British obligation was to hand them over . |
| 3 | I clambered over the wall and dropped on the other side and made my way quickly across the field in the direction of the cottage . |
| 4 | She was actually in the house when the bomb dropped on the other side of the road and she was flung down two flights of stairs and the piano on the other side of the room here bears the scars of the bombing . |
| 5 | Yet , in heavy rock terms , they still retain an erudite edge and play with an urgency onstage that outstrips the uncharacteristically sluggish Babes In Toyland , when they played on the other side of town , two nights earlier . |
| 6 | We parked on the opposite side of the street from the Regal Arms . |
| 7 | Because of the common frontier between the two countries , and also because of considerable French economic interests which had grown during the period of the Second Empire , whatever happened on the far side of the Pyrenees could not be ignored by the government in Paris . |
| 8 | Extensive geological surveys were carried out and a mile long pilot tunnel dug on the British side of the Channel before hostile public opinion led to the abandonment of the project in 1882 . |
| 9 | About ten years ago another dancing school opened on the other side of town . |
| 10 | A SHADOW was cast over a sombre Royal wreath-laying ceremony yesterday when the Prince of Wales ' convoy arrived on the wrong side of a monument to one of Poland 's most painful wartime memories . |
| 11 | In Roman times the river flowed on the far side of that . |
| 12 | A few weak lights shone on the far side , and headlights on the Otter Ferry road , two miles away across the black expanse of waves , swung out briefly , like a lighthouse beam … and then dimmed and disappeared . |
| 13 | Dr. Leadbetter then commented on the other side of the coin ; the problems of under-funding were to some extent compensated for by the rewards of hard earned success . |
| 14 | A baboon shrieked on the far side of the pavilion . |
| 15 | Joe O'Toole took 8–39 for leaders Liverpool MES — but finished on the losing side at Parkfield . |
| 16 | CHRIS O'BRIEN scored a fine hat-trick for Garston Woodcutters but finished on the losing side in an 8-3 defeat against Great Eastern in the South Merseyside MYA Junior League Under 11 division . |
| 17 | Stewart 's chequered career began on the other side of the law in Sydney Australia where he was a police officer … he was even decorated for outstanding bravery in the course of duty . |
| 18 | On the instant , a fearful commotion began on the farther side . |
| 19 | Although preliminary construction began on the French side soon after the ratification of the Treaty of Canterbury in July 1987 , the main Channel Tunnel construction did not start until January 1988 . |
| 20 | It was denied that any such wall existed on the southern side of the border , other than a series of anti-tank defences well to the south of the DMZ . |
| 21 | A more transient atmosphere existed on the other side of the front line , just beyond the heaps of dark earth at Galerie Semaan . |
| 22 | As for the benign intent : whereas dashes for growth in the 1960s and early 1970s were engineered by governments that deliberately overestimated the economy 's ability to grow , last year 's boom was the result of a miscalculation , which probably erred on the right side . |
| 23 | She was hurled into the air and landed on the other side of a 10ft hedge . |
| 24 | And the Ford Fiesta crashed into it seconds after four-year-old Andrew Afflick landed on the other side . |
| 25 | And the Ford Fiesta crashed into it seconds after four-year-old Andrew Afflick landed on the other side . |
| 26 | He walked on the other side of the road . |
| 27 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 28 | and saying , what do you think cos of all the qualified ones at least she cos she worked on the elderly side . |
| 29 | Rincewind swayed back as a wildly thrown stool sailed past and smashed on the far side of the street . |
| 30 | Bridges broke on the narrow side of a lineout and Davies was driven over by his pack in the corner . |