Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] side to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had finished it , he leaned back in his chair and , resting his hands on his stomach , he watched Sammy who was making a series of strange noises in his food while his tail continued to wag from side to side . |
| 2 | What I did was to teeter from side to side like a tall mast on a small ship in a heavy sea . |
| 3 | He pointed to ‘ Pergoles ’ and she lifted her head again to look from side to side . |
| 4 | His eyes were grey-green , like Finn 's , but had warm brown flecks in them and looked straight and candid ahead , as though they saw too directly to look from side to side . |
| 5 | The cab was , very gently , beginning to sway from side to side . |
| 6 | Here one of them sacrifices for the other : both have trouble falling asleep , and their partner 's noisy breath wakes them ; so they wriggle towards the edge of the bed , leaving a broad space down the middle ; they pretend to be sound asleep , in the hope of making sleep easier for their partner , who will then be able to turn from side to side without disturbing the other . |
| 7 | The view is excellent from all seats , although the two passengers in the middle of the benches have to lean from side to side to make the most of it . |
| 8 | Piphros ' head began to move from side to side , the entire body shaking , and oozing moisture . |
| 9 | A conviction ensued where the supervisor had been drinking with the driver who was seen to swerve from side to side ( Crampton v Fish ( 1969 ) , 113 SJ 1003 ) . |