Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] [art] side " in BNC.

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1 Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader .
2 During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet .
3 Now there was some dispute over whether Berlin or Bonn should be the capital , they 've come down on the side of Berlin , but is that dispute settled now ?
4 It is perfectly clear that long before the procession came into sight , long before the procession had formed , these people in the Markets in their desire to be offended had come down from the side streets and had taken great trouble to he offended , and not only were prepared to be offended but were prepared to throw missiles , stones and other weapons …
5 The Late Show , challenged by David Hare to decide whether Keats was more important than Dylan , now seems inclined to come down on the side of Keats .
6 But we had to choose , early on , which side we belonged to , and children have to come down on the side that brings the food home and gets it on the table .
7 Pancevski himself appeared to come down on the side of the Serbian position by stressing repeatedly that political pluralism " must be based on socialist orientation and the federal structure " and asserting : " The LCY finds unacceptable the thesis according to which the essence and form of political pluralism are reduced to a classic multiparty system alone . "
8 We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not .
9 Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out .
10 But he admitted : ‘ It is a crashing diappointment for Rob because he had only just come back into the side — and his return coincided with two successive clean sheets . ’
11 They finally came down on the side of 36-year-old Anne Bancroft , although she had seldom played comedy , having made her name in such powerful dramas as The Miracle Worker and The Pumpkin Eater .
12 Having contemplated the pro 's and con 's Darwin came down on the side in favour of marriage .
13 There 's that side of things , and I hope that that is changing , alas again too slowly erm I think the Taylor report , which firmly came down on the side of more lay control of schools by parents and members of the community , put up and unanswerable case .
14 He came in at the side door as though he knew his own way .
15 The noise alerted a woman who came in from a side door and challenged him quite sharply .
16 Neither did he move from where he was standing , just inside the door , for almost a minute ; and when he did , he came quickly to the side of the table and stood within an arm 's length of her .
17 And that 's when , you see during I can just remember previous to the war them coming there and then of course during the war there was very very few of them on the road then and then after the war they started to come back and that 's when this Billy and Harry and that came up from the side .
18 The Neue Mozart Ausgabe ( hereafter NMA ) ( Kassel , 1955- ) came out on the side of ‘ dualism ’ and has systematically tried to reproduce as faithfully as possible the two distinct signs while various of its editors explained the rationale for this editorial policy .
19 He came out of a side door , clutching a carry-out .
20 As I entered , a man came out of a side room and I knew immediately he must be Long John .
21 This question came out of the side of her mouth and Millie , quick to catch on , muttered , ‘ Ten . ’
22 A servant came out of the side gate and returned later , but that was all .
23 You ca n't really , you see we came out into a side door into the old square .
24 But who can blame UEFA , post-Heysel , for coming down on the side of life and limb before either is lost ?
25 I have been criticised for coming down on the side of the second alternative .
26 This must be him just coming in through the side door .
27 But it is a bad time to be coming back into the side with results poor and confidence low .
28 coming back through the side here
29 My supper flapped off round the corner in a storm of feathers with the blood coming out of the side of its beak .
30 Paul spends most of the rest of his letter dealing with the problem in Corinth ; he does n't come down on the side of being totally separate or of being totally indistinguishable in lifestyle — but you 'll have to read that for yourself .
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