Example sentences of "in [prep] all side " in BNC.
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| 1 | The focal point of the town centre is the church , with old buildings threaded by narrow alleyways hemming in from all sides . |
| 2 | It seemed to be seeping in from all sides , but how ? |
| 3 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 4 | When that happened , he could imagine the pines closing in on all sides , sealing the locomotive and the carriages in a green tomb ; invisible even from the air . |
| 5 | Turning on Mungo , Mr Cottle paused to blow his nose , a signal for the trees to edge in on all sides , shutting out the sky . |
| 6 | They were hemmed in on all sides by thick heavy stone , but still the wind managed to snake in through innumerable cracks and crannies . |
| 7 | Then it became darker , the trees denser , thicker , hemming them in on all sides as Thomas guided their horses along some secret path known only to him . |
| 8 | A minute later Sabrina swung the Renault into a narrow alleyway beside the house and emerged into a cobbled courtyard closed in on all sides by faded white walls , the paint peeling off in unsightly flakes to reveal greyish plaster underneath . |
| 9 | But within minutes , confirmation was coming in on all sides : from our headquarters in London , from the teleprinter flashes , from national newspaper reporters stunned like us and now eager to hear what we thought about it . |