Example sentences of "on his side [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If everything continued to go like this , there was a fair chance that he 'd have the village back on his side for the rest of the summer . |
| 2 | As with the censored Christian argument in Notes from Underground , I believe an unfathomable good luck wearing the face of bad luck was on his side at the start . |
| 3 | He just sat there , scratching his head with those black fingernails and telling my mother there was never anything like that on his side of the family . |
| 4 | There were three double-faults in one game alone , including one which bounced before even reaching the service line on his side of the court . |
| 5 | He looked around and within a radius of twenty yards , both on his side of the street and over there on the far corner , he could see ten or a dozen little girls , each in a pale dirty dress and with hair in a dark , tangled mane . |
| 6 | Therefore , a driver need only accord precedence to pedestrians on the crossing on his side of the road . |
| 7 | It 's up to the owner to decide which way round to have the post and rails , although he must erect them on his side of the boundary . |
| 8 | On his side of the Thames , by the parkland and shrubberies of Wandsworth Common , a crowd of about three hundred people had gathered . |
| 9 | Instead of staying carefully on his side of the screen — ‘ She goes left , I go right ’ — he suddenly stepped forward , centre stage , out of his position , out of the whole plot of the operetta , threw out his arms in the great expansive sexual gesture that never failed to work with the audiences , and began to sing in front of Therese , ignoring the screen , ignoring the action , making a total mockery of the whole theme of a bride and groom who marry without knowing who they are . |
| 10 | between a lot of parked cars and there was a , I was coming down the road and all I needed to do was to actually stop where I was cos there was enough room on his side of the road for him to come past the parked car and round me |
| 11 | He fell on his side under the onslaught , and one coolie wrenched the bone-handled knife from his helpless fingers . |
| 12 | From where he lay on his side inside the laundry basket , he could hear the noise of the showers echoing around the stone walls of the House . |