Usage examples of "à gauche de" in French with translation to English

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Tom et Mary s'apprêtaient à plonger, du bord gauche de la phrase, dans l'infini corpus, lorsqu'ils virent au-dessous un banc de contributeurs affamés, les dents dehors, prêts à leur sauter dessus et à déchiqueter leurs fautes jusqu'à la dernière. Tom and Mary were on the verge of diving, off the left edge of the sentence, in the infinite corpus, when they spotted underneath a shoal of hungry contributors, teeth out, ready to jump on them and shred their mistakes down to the last one.
L'animal en haut à gauche est censé être un dragon. The animal in the top left-hand corner is meant to be a dragon.
Quelqu'un m'a rayé tout le côté gauche de la voiture ! Someone keyed the whole left side of my car!
Dois-je prendre la deuxième rue à gauche ? Do I take the second street on the left?
Tom, seul, penché au bord gauche de la phrase, hésitait à sauter, pour en finir avec toute cette histoire. Tom, alone, bent over the left edge of the sentence, was hesitating to jump, to put an end to all this story.
Ils roulent à gauche en Angleterre. They drive on the left in England.
Tom, désespéré, hurla : « Mary ! Où es-tu ? » depuis l'extrémité gauche de la phrase. « Je crains de n'être désormais totalement à l'opposé de toi », répondit sèchement Mary. Tom, desperate, howled: "Mary! Where are you?" from the very left edge of the sentence. "I fear I'm from now on, fully at the opposite from you" drily retorted Mary.
Tournez à gauche, et vous trouverez le café. Turn left and you will find the cafe.
La balle l'atteignit au côté gauche de la tête. The ball hit him on the left side of the head.
Descendez le long de cette route jusqu'au feu rouge, puis tournez à gauche. Go down this road as far as the traffic light, and turn left.
Tourne à gauche au coin suivant. Turn left at the next corner.
Je ne sais pas s'il faut tourner à gauche ou à droite. I don't know whether to turn left or right.
Tournez-vous à gauche ! Turn to the left!
Tom ne sait pas s'il faut tourner à gauche ou à droite. Tom doesn't know whether to turn left or right.
Tourne à la deuxième à gauche. Go two blocks and turn left.
Elle a tourné à gauche à l'angle. She turned to the left at the corner.
La France semble pencher à gauche, la Grande-Bretagne à droite. France seems to be swinging left - Britain to the right.
La voiture coupa à gauche. The car cut to the left.
On écrit l'arabe de droite à gauche. Arabic is written from right to left.
Il y a un passage secret à gauche. There's a secret path on the left.
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