Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] each side " in BNC.

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1 One of the 8 Group airfields , I think it was Graveley , had had FIDO burners installed along each side of the main runway — that is , ‘ Fog Intensive Dispersal Operation ’ — consisting of pipelines of oil which were lit up in foggy conditions .
2 Below the urethral meatus is the orifice of the vagina , surrounded on each side by small folds of skin called the labia minora .
3 She lifted Albert 's arms from the table , sat herself promptly down on the newspaper in front of Albert and let his arms fall on each side of her .
4 You obviously need to know what 's happening on each side of the hedge .
5 Half a century before Saxe wrote , the forces engaged in the great battles of the War of the Spanish Succession had sometimes amounted on each side to 60,000–90,000 men and the French army had been equivalent to about two per cent of the country 's population : he himself is said to have commanded 130,000 at Raucoux in 1746 and 98,000 at Lawfeldt in the following year .
6 The chancel is first pointed , has on each side three wide splayed single lancets .
7 It could be measured by the width of a coach with a man walking at each side , but even so it was wider than the streets and alleys leading off from both sides of it .
8 Team matches are decided on the number of bouts won by each side .
9 Another possibility is to have double-hinged solid wooden shutters or panels made for each side of the window , again from ceiling to floor .
10 Tracey made a tree with an equal number of rods protruding from each side and all of the same size .
11 In the centre was the velour package of diamonds , framed on each side by a half-pound block of tacky beige substance .
12 Or retaining walls can be built on each side of the steps
13 Flexible alkathene hoops , available from builders ' merchants , secured to each side of a bed with a cover of heavy-duty polythene , make a simple cold frame for protecting frost-sensitive shrubs and newly raised annuals .
14 What Tallis had taken for a forked beard she could see , now , were curved tusks of wood growing from each side of the round , wet mouth .
15 The whole object looks more Byzantine than I would have guessed , an effect heightened by the pendants which hang from each side .
16 Repeat on the other side 20 times , then repeat again on both sides , with 20 mini raises on each side .
17 Repeat on the other side , then repeat again on both sides , this time with just 20 mini raises on each side .
18 Repeat on the other side , then repeat again on both sides , this time with just 20 mini raises on each side .
19 Repeat again on both sides , this time with just 30 mini raises on each side .
20 Professor Sewell had a square building erected , open on each side , so that operations , requiring the casting of the patient , could be performed under shelter in any state of the weather' .
21 Distally the pair of shields terminates on each side of the arm .
22 She watched his whole body stiffen , his fists clench at each side of his hips , then his big soft-lipped mouth , the feature that marred his otherwise handsome looks , stretch wide as he ground his teeth one set over the other .
23 If you 're working alone one way of dealing with it is for the class to look at each side in turn : they can all play the townspeople who want to join the survey team , and then all play those who do n't want the railway to come through the town .
24 The public were a ‘ voice offstage ’ to be used by each side in their threats , but only in the last resort was public debate considered to have a useful role in decision making .
25 The arguments which ought to be used by each side to explain why they support or reject these provisions are set out opposite .
26 There is one flat , broad , apical papillae flanked by two rows of each of about 5 papillae flanking on each side , the row situated on the surface of the oral plates are considered to be supplementary .
27 Pairs of RIC men were patrolling on each side of the wide thoroughfare and , though to Jacob they were of no more account than any other pedestrians , he realised that Deirdre could not feel so unconcerned .
28 But when this produced little response , she brought the palm of her hand in short slaps on each side of the pale cheeks , and when Agnes gulped at the air , she cried at her , ‘ That 's it !
29 Julie ambled happily down the long immaculate front lawn , bordered on each side by miniature fruit trees .
30 Without speaking , Massingham took the next turning to the left and drove toward– it down a narrow road bordered on each side by a terrace of small houses .
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