adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a left-hand/right-hand bend (= going towards the left or the right )
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Take the turning just after the left-hand bend in the road.
left-hand/right-hand glove
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A left-hand glove was found at the scene of the crime.
right-hand drive
right-hand man
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John is Bill’s right-hand man and has put a lot of time into the team.
the left-hand/right-hand page
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The answers are on the right-hand page.
the left-hand/right-hand side of an equation
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Add up what you've got on the right-hand side of the equation.
the left-hand/right-hand side
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On the left-hand side list the skills and qualifications required for the job.
the right-hand margin (= on the right of the page )
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There were some notes written in the right-hand margin.
the right-hand/left-hand drawer
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Have you looked in the left-hand drawer?
the right/right-hand corner
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Put your address in the top right-hand corner of the page.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
corner
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A speck of grit danced over the time-segment at the lower right-hand corner , smearing the rolling figures.
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Six minutes later more water started leaking through the top right-hand corner of another window.
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His own likeness appears squeezed in above his initials in the right-hand corner .
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Bridges initiated the first, his break being well supported by Andrew Thomas who crossed in the right-hand corner .
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With four minutes to go, Stimpson dived over for his second try in the right-hand corner .
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He placed it so that it would shine into the right-hand corner of the wall by the fireplace.
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The technique is easy, as you can see in the bottom right-hand corner of the picture.
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Each one is labelled clearly with the title in large letters in the bottom right-hand corner .
drive
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The cost of right-hand drive and extras will also be shown.
man
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Flynn was the nearest John had to a right-hand man .
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Sammy Williams was my trusted lieutenant, my right-hand man .
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Lord Tebbit, former Tory party chairman and right-hand man to Baroness Thatcher, is backing the plan.
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His former Sunderland boss has yet to appoint a right-hand man at Bristol City.
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Pallid and balding, Vladimiro Montesinos, 56, was Fujimori's intelligence chief and right-hand man .
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Though himself the king's cousin, Nithard had another patron too, the king's right-hand man , the seneschal Adalard.
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Next door to us lived Geoffrey Hamm, Mosley's right-hand man in the area.
side
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Male embryos form in the right-hand side of the womb, females in the left.
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The right-hand side of the balance sheet lists the various claims against these assets.
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The pulpit, instead of being central, was placed to the right-hand side , looking from the back pews.
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If the account is a right-hand side account, such as revenue, the opposite is true.
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The right-hand side provides a benchmark against which all portfolios may be assessed.
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By adding further words to the right-hand side of rules 4,5 and 6, they could produce hundreds of sentences.
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It had been placed on the right-hand side of the green, guarded by two bunkers.
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On the right-hand side write how you would begin the meeting; what you would actually say.
turn
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He stopped for a red light, prepared to make a right-hand turn as soon as the arrow flicked green.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Washington Avenue will be on your right-hand side.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the right-hand door was open, that seemed a bit odd.
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But the right-hand column was a record of growth, though of a very uneven kind.
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From the right-hand group of trees, he went into the front left-hand bunker.
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The man turns and trots away from me up the right-hand staircase from the mezzanine to the station platform.
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The resulting expression is and multiplying out the right-hand side we obtain the required trigonometrical relations.
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The top right-hand drawer of the desk contained the traditional little tin box and a pistol.
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The window itself has three buttons on the upper right-hand side of the frame.