Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] the side of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an overall thing we probably take about a hundred and fifty phone calls every day from policy holders , and I suppose out of that you I suppose you people that have n't erm have broken down at the side of the road will ring up or something . |
| 2 | I , I used to walk it there when I went there , e even from Lane I never used to get on the bus I , I used to walk it down there cos we used to go down by the side of , of the old Street cemetery you know over by the gas works and up Street the erm |
| 3 | Did n't look very well , we were walking down by the side of the road ! |
| 4 | To steady himself he sank down on the side of the bed . |
| 5 | Robbie 's legs gave way and she sank down on the side of the bed . |
| 6 | She sank down by the side of the road . |
| 7 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Then , suddenly , the arms are dropped down to the sides of the body again . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . " |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On an instrument descent while under approach control , the Falcon let down into the side of a mountain , killing all three occupants . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 18 | Fill in the gaps around the arch top with expanded metal mesh nailed to timber battens , screwed down to the sides of the remaining opening . |
| 19 | He had his back to me , so I just sneaked in and hid down by the side of the dresser . |
| 20 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 21 | Next it is laid half way over the other petal and pressed down with the side of the finger . |
| 22 | So just jot down at the side of the page the other eleven names in the room okay everybody 's Tony , Mike , Jeff , Sarah , Bob , Rob , Gordon , John , Tom , Joanne , Mike Dave . |
| 23 | But who can blame UEFA , post-Heysel , for coming down on the side of life and limb before either is lost ? |
| 24 | I have been criticised for coming down on the side of the second alternative . |
| 25 | Gedanken settled down by the side of him and started pulling away . |
| 26 | This is hosed down from the sides of the open pits . |
| 27 | I go down to the side of the pond to have a look round . |
| 28 | She lay down by the side of the water and , because the water did not receive her shadowy form , the trout were fooled . |
| 29 | A dog lay down by the side of the building , its pink tongue lolling out with thirst . |
| 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 . |