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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 the other side of th , you know , should have come from the other side .
2 The Scottish accent seemed to come from the other side of the crowd .
3 It turned out that Morais and Bertelson obtained a significant advantage for those stimuli which appeared to come from the right side of space .
4 Suddenly the stillness was broken by a distressful wail that came from the other side of the square .
5 The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town .
6 Even in the Lockerbie disaster , where a plane exploded in mid-air , and many bodies could only be pieced together in fragments , relatives came from the other side of the world searching for something , anything that gave a focus to their grief and over which they could weep .
7 She was still pondering on this mystery when a low whistle came from the other side of the ditch .
8 It came from the far side of the hotel ; I walked along the balcony to the far end .
9 I had even studied Geology as my science subject and although I was cack-handed and obtuse when it came to the practical side had enjoyed the theory well enough .
10 But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started .
11 However , the drivers to avoid are the one in 100 who complete fewer than 520 miles per year — they 're the ones you meet coming up the wrong side of the motorway .
12 ‘ The patrol boat 's coming in the other side of the key .
13 Morais and Bertelson ( 1975 ) pointed out that the usual dichotic listening paradigm does not allow one to distinguish between an interpretation of the REA in terms of ear of stimulus presentation and an alternative explanation favouring input coming from the right side of space .
14 The pressure now , though , seemed to be coming from the Moslem side .
15 This is partly because there is no political pressure coming from the seaward side of the land/ sea divide and hence little inclination to spend precious time and money investigating the subject .
16 Breathe slowly from the stomach not the chest — breathing in to a count of four slowly and out to a count of four slowly , or visualize your breathing-in as going up one side of a hill , experiencing the plateau at the top and then breathing-out as though coming down the other side .
17 But , coming to the practical side of it ,
18 If this is not a practical reality , then any effort to counter discrimination against older consumes must come from the other side of the fence ; from manufactures of user-friendly products , from retailers in the way they present goods for sale , and from those who are responsible for creating the environment in which shops trade .
19 ‘ Our family did n't exactly come from the wrong side of the tracks , but we were certainly always within sound of the train whistles . ’
20 He 'll come down the other side of the trees .
21 On the other , just wait a moment and we 'll come to the other side of the argument because the argument is carefully and evenly balanced .
22 Black Orcs come from the eastern side of the Worlds Edge Mountains and are bigger , stronger and tougher than ordinary Orcs .
23 Now we come to the ironical side of it all .
24 Well that that comes under the medical side .
25 The only counter-pressure comes from the dark side of human nature , the tear of ‘ the enemy ’ .
26 The damsel in question comes from the other side of the family — it 's Great-Grandma Rosenbloom , at age eighteen . ’
27 A significant factor was that much of the stock it sells comes from the Scottish side of the border .
28 I believe that one firm is at present training one male monotype operator , who is being taught by a woman , It is true that this evidence comes from the opposing side so to speak , but nowhere is a counter-assertion put forward by the union that men had applied to learn and been turned away .
  Next page