Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 26-year-old woman accountant who knew nothing about the mechanical side of vehicles asked her more knowledgeable friend to find a car for her . |
| 2 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 3 | Someone on the far side of the cloisters made a joke in Dutch and another gaggle of European youths burst into laughter . |
| 4 | Even though she 'd been dead for so long it could sometimes seem that she was still with him , a presence in the next room , someone on the other side of a door who waited and listened but who never stepped through , except when he dreamed . |
| 5 | ‘ Someone on the Coptic side wants to keep things on the boil , wants to stop agreement from being reached . |
| 6 | ‘ You think there 's someone on the Moslem side who 's got an interest in keeping things on the boil ? ’ asked Georgiades . |
| 7 | Either someone on the German side understood English or the TARDIS 's telepathic circuits were at work again , because the Germans also began dashing for the exits on their side of the cavern . |
| 8 | Close to it at a March meeting in 1585 accusations of a theft of some Scottish spurs and counter-accusations of ‘ a pretended matter beforehand ’ began to fly to and fro , until without warning someone on the Scottish side shot and killed Russell . |
| 9 | and er where 's me Ghandi and all this and then somebody from the other side of the pool was saying it so and so , so and so , then he said couple of old |
| 10 | Somebody on the other side of the curtain brushed against my knees . |
| 11 | They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise ! |
| 12 | Well perhaps you or somebody on the other side might care to tell us how you 're gon na take it from three to three and half , cos I 'll quite happily tell you then how we 'll take it from three and half to four percent , so we welcome that as a step in the right direction . |
| 13 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 14 | In the end , the dominance of the professionals can be seen by the fact that five of their number emerged with two wins out of two ( Alliss , Clark , Garner , Dawson and Guy Hunt ) compared to none from the amateur side . |
| 15 | They got one off the Welsh side in October in a 1-1 draw . |
| 16 | There is a special one for the medical side . |
| 17 | This is an important qualification ( that doubt is normal only in our abnormal situation ) , but it allows us to appreciate something of the positive side of doubt . |
| 18 | we 'll sor we 'll find you something something on the mellow side , June . |
| 19 | He was wrestling with something on the other side of that landing door , pushing open the door with one foot and shouting : ‘ Come on , then ! |
| 20 | Something on the other side of the room exploded , and kept on exploding . |
| 21 | Because if you will have a had to get a recorder to listen to this side so you might as well put something on the other side and send it to me but of course there is no rush and in return you 'd be showing you take off anything or any part that you care to use . |
| 22 | We are very sorry the train at number eleven platform eleven , when you get to Lemington on it , get out if you 're going to Banbury , there will be a coach , because there 's a fire at Banbury , well I thought it meant there was something on the other side of the railway , it was , a factory near there so , so then er they get you in |
| 23 | There 's something on the other side . |
| 24 | There the post is something on the erratic side , which explains the delay . |
| 25 | Perhaps that 's because being a larger lady I prefer to have something on the large side rather than the small ! |
| 26 | Moreover , a romantic feeling persists that to smoke puts one on the correct side of the political divide , along with the exploited rather than the exploiters . |
| 27 | Die studies become even more useful when , as often happens , two coins have been struck from the same die on one side but a different one on the other side . |
| 28 | The the , the two the big window made like the other one on the other side and er , what else was erm oh , to have the heater serviced |
| 29 | The one on the bass side is almost an inch long and it really shows , especially under strong lighting . |
| 30 | As a result , some legs may step in pairs or there may be three legs in motion at once — two on one side of the body and one on the opposite side . |