Example sentences of "[vb past] on [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no houses in sight : the wooded mountain rose on one side of the old railway track and fell steeply away on the other . |
| 2 | He had a momentary vision of the tall , proud tower blocks that rose on either side of him collapsing in a cloud of dust . |
| 3 | The Sunday afternoon walk along the lanes was always interesting , even to very young children , for the high banks towered on either side of us , covered in wild flowers — campions , hemp agrimony , foxgloves , honeysuckle and many , many more . |
| 4 | We stopped on one side of the narrow road . |
| 5 | It crashed on one side of a thick hedge . |
| 6 | The hair was now centrally parted , and crimped on either side of the face . |
| 7 | He did an ever expanding trade in cars and trucks under his big red neon sign , which proclaimed on one side FRIZZELL 'S GARAGE — YOU CAN TRUST MAXIE , and on the other FRIZZELL 'S GARAGE — I GREW WITH ALBERTA . |
| 8 | Note that the Middlesex Crown Court case of Langham v Crisp [ 1975 ] Crim LR 652 where a motorist parked on one side of the road and an obstruction was caused by the subsequent parking of cars opposite . |
| 9 | Cambridge House Legal Advice Centre and Mary Ward Settlement Centre flourished on either side of the Thames . |
| 10 | He climbed on one side of the desks , stood on tiptoe , and , forcing up the skylight , eased his head through into the icy December wind . |
| 11 | Then there were the unwritten rules : girls travelling by train were not to travel in carriages with boys , and walking to school in the mornings , boys walked on one side of the road , girls on the other . |
| 12 | She too had been caught by the Nazis , I walked along beside her and the bears walked on each side of us . |
| 13 | They walked on either side of me and talked to each other , jabbering utter nonsense as though it was all so important , and I , with more brains than the two of them put together and information of the most vital nature , could n't get a word out . |
| 14 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
| 15 | The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place . |
| 16 | Mrs Hollidaye and Loopy Lil settled on either side of the bedroom fire with the dogs on the carpet between them . |
| 17 | The huge whorled fingers uncurled and passed on either side of his waist . |
| 18 | She entered the breakfast parlour , in company with Agnes and Adam Diggory , the latter red-eyed and bowed down with sorrow , to find Miss Merchiston seated on one side of the big table , opposite Benedict , while Mr Aycliffe occupied the head . |
| 19 | And the Bishop Don Hieronymo went on one side of him , and the trusty Gil Diaz on the other , and he led the horse Bavieca , as the Cid had commanded him . |
| 20 | The tangled hedgerows that grew on either side had almost strangled it into being permanently closed . |
| 21 | Apple trees grew on either side of the double-sided small house , and behind it the land rose smoothly to a small wood that followed the ridge of a hill . |
| 22 | The zig-zag stripes of trench-systems lay on either side like the skin shed by a massive snake . |
| 23 | And drowsy with the wine dozed on one side . |
| 24 | There is usually one pointed apical papilla sometimes two or three flanked on each side by 3–4 pointed oral papillae . |
| 25 | Whether any of the grudges was strong enough to justify murder was another consideration he put on one side for the time being . |
| 26 | The idea of a roadway supported on either side by a coal pillar and supported in the er in the beam of the roof er by er roof bolts making that beam stronger , so that the sides will support the beam , is a good one . |
| 27 | It 's like , girls who had on that side , and girls who had n't on that side , — can I join , kind of thing . |
| 28 | He was in an iron bed which resembled that on which he slept in ffeatherstonehaugh 's , but it had on one side a sad leatherette-and-wooden armchair and on the other a small white cabinet . |
| 29 | In her girls ' school , it was a bit like joining a club — " girls who had on this side , and girls who had n't on that side " . |
| 30 | They set out up the hillside , going slowly , picking their way from one bush and tussock to another and pausing continually to sniff and stare along the great expanse of grass , which stretched on either side as far as they could see . |