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

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1 I start musing on how it is we do find ourselves on the same side .
2 Perhaps the man was excited because he saw the chance of making more money , Kirov rejected , in the hope that reminding himself of the mercenary side of the Jew 's character might make his job a little easier .
3 Jack was coming towards her , and flattened himself against the other side .
4 Buckmaster 's habit of distancing himself from the seamier side of the company worried him .
5 That they were left to themselves is evident , for Eusebius of Nicomedia , who was close to Constantine , found himself on the losing side in the debate about the relationship between Father and Son , defeated by a group led by a mere deacon ( though soon to be a bishop ) , Athanasius of Alexandria .
6 ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard .
7 He [ Chang ] said that the fact Korea found itself on the other side of that line as defined in Acheson 's address , combined with the House action yesterday , appeared to raise the serious question as to whether the United States might now be considered as having abandoned Korea .
8 Barely managing to hold her breath for the extra few seconds , she hauled herself to the other side of the object first , before surfacing .
9 ‘ Wow , ’ said Lydia , heaving herself to the other side of the bed and plumping up her pillow .
10 Almost without knowing how she had got there , Folly found herself on the other side of the double doors , pushing through a curtain of leaves that shrouded the entrance .
11 In another moment she would find herself on the other side of the door , facing disaster .
12 We 'd known that in the mountains and in due course I was to see it myself from the other side of the fence .
13 Feeling as if I was still asleep and having a very curious dream , I settled myself on the other side of the hearth from the stranger and took a sip of cocoa .
14 It is a source of some sadness to me that I now find myself on the other side of the fence from Samuel Brittan in the debate on managed and fixed currencies .
15 Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could .
16 The crucial power was torn from the hands of the proletariat , and within months the Bolsheviks found themselves on the other side of the barricades .
17 The enthusiastic ones included Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia which , a mere 18 years later , found themselves on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain to be eligible for membership . )
18 Moreover , at this time , the boundary between the two parts of Britain was drawn southwards so that formerly prosperous parts of the Midlands , particularly the West Midlands conurbation , found themselves on the wrong side of the line for the first time ( Townsend , 1983 ; Green , 1986 ) .
19 One video is not going to stop car crime on its own , but producers believe it may persuade some young people to think twice before they find themselves on the wrong side of the law .
20 France and England never pulled together , for all they might find themselves on the same side . ’
21 But those who choose violence set themselves on the opposing side from democracy .
22 ‘ It must be strange , ’ she said slowly , ‘ to have been part of the Revolution and then to find yourself on the opposite side from people you fought beside . ’
23 However bad a landlord , there is a crucial rule that needs to be kept in mind if you do n't want to put yourself on the wrong side of the law .
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