Example sentences of "at the other side " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 2 | Here only the place-names refer to france ; the junipers , the spruce and fir , and the falling snow are taken over by Pound from a landscape at the other side of the world . |
| 3 | ‘ They seemed to be enjoying themselves immensely , making a lot of noise , rushing dramatically up and down the stairs , spraying the fire-hoses everywhere , and throwing the occasional bottle or glass at the other side . ’ |
| 4 | It was seven and the night nurse had already begun her round at the other side of the house when he slipped downstairs . |
| 5 | John McLeish , seated at the other side of a table from Commander Stevenson , would have agreed with this judgement . |
| 6 | He derived some comfort from Rajiv 's habitual elegance ; wearing a suit , shirt and tie that must have cost two months of his salary as an Assistant Under-Secretary of State , he was sitting at the other side of the large , uncompromising desk that the Department provides for its most senior officials , not a hair out of place and his black eyes alive with amusement . |
| 7 | His heart leaped and his knees trembled with relief when he heard the unmistakable sound of her footsteps rounding the corner at the other side of the cinema building . |
| 8 | For a moment it looked as if he was free and would land safely near Tock 's cottage but coming down he fell with a thump into the basket lift at the other side . |
| 9 | Opposite the tomb , at the other side of the transept , is a statue of St Bartholomew , remarkable for its subject and for its conceit . |
| 10 | Nellie was doing the same at the other side . |
| 11 | The snow was almost knee-deep ; it took him nearly ten minutes to reach the hedge at the other side of the field . |
| 12 | The brass shop was laid out with the rough brass stores on one side , whence the castings passed to the machines , thence to the benches , and from there to the polishers , next to the platers and finally to the lacquerers at the other side of the shop , each operation in turn bringing the parts further across the shop . |
| 13 | What was needed instead was some means of setting up the apparatus so that each detector could not ‘ know ’ in advance the polarisation being detected at the other side of the experiment . |
| 14 | This time is small compared with the time for a signal at the speed of light to travel from the detectors at one side of the experiment to those , 6 metres away , at the other side . |
| 15 | Kāli and her cousin , Jit , were at the far end of the roof waving their arms , keeping the sheep contained at one end only , stopping them going back down the steps at the other side . |
| 16 | But ZZAP ! has never looked at the other side of the problem or asked themselves : ‘ Why is there so much software piracy ? ’ |
| 17 | The invading motorway , the M62 , sliced and slashed its way across the peaceful countryside , separating the lovely old Quaker Farm from some of its pastureland , which is now at the other side of the flyover which almost marks the boundary between Sandholme and Gilberdyke . |
| 18 | She frowned to see that the seat at the other side was occupied by his sister-in-law , Sarah Butler . |
| 19 | At the other side is Valors ' new unique Touchlok main oven door release , so you can open the main oven door at the touch of a button . |
| 20 | Maggie was looking at the corporal standing at the other side of the counter as she said , ‘ Sorry , no sandwiches left ; only wads , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 21 | They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars . |
| 22 | At the other side of the wood go through the gate into the field . |
| 23 | Set at right angles to one side of the fireplace was a two-seat wooden settle , and at the other side a much larger leather couch . |
| 24 | And my cottage , I had been informed , lay at the other side of the island . |
| 25 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 26 | We gained in confidence as we pressed on , until suddenly we broke through on to the cliff-top at the other side of the island . |
| 27 | And setting up the sound waves in the air at the other side . |
| 28 | Both participants are aware of the starting point , and that a final goal has to be achieved at the other side of the map , stopping at various intermediate points on the way ( see Figure 4.1 ) . |
| 29 | If the magnetic field happens to be larger at one side than at the other side , then the beam will be deflected towards the weaker field which makes the field even weaker , etc. , leading to the so-called kink instability ( Fig. 3.3(b) ) . |
| 30 | They did , it was true , have an agitated fit of booing and hissing , but this was , M. Grimaud explained , an expression of spontaneous disapproval of Picasso who could just be made out , small brown face under black beret at the other side of the arena . |