Example sentences of "come [adv prt] on the [noun sg] [prep] " 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 was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 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 | 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 . " |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Er I wanted to come back on the question of regeneration and the opportunities in Leeds . |
| 9 | The biggest excitement of the war for us happened when an aeroplane came down on the hill above Clove Lodge , which is just across the valley from Low Birk Hatt . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Having contemplated the pro 's and con 's Darwin came down on the side in favour of marriage . |
| 13 | So , as Jonathan Miller put it , ‘ man came in on the back of the machine ’ . |
| 14 | Then , just when she was feeling really at ease with him , he stepped back a pace , came in on the tail-end of her report on the new extra-calorie meal schedule they were working on , and undermined her equilibrium totally with the words , ‘ I like the way the dappled light is playing on your hair . |
| 15 | Late one evening in 1974 , not long after Wilson 's second election victory , I was at my home in Portland Place when Haines came through on the telephone with a request for some urgent action . |
| 16 | It came up on the wall like that and had a big wooden block fastened to the wall that block |
| 17 | He came up on the train for a few days , very nervous , wearing his best suit . |
| 18 | Vangmoor came up on the screen as if they were looking out of the window , but Vangmoor in summer without the wind and with leaves on the trees . |
| 19 | Are you going to tell me that it was someone who came back on the train from London who gave you the key ? ’ |
| 20 | We came out on the waterfront into a gust of wind . |
| 21 | A highlight of her time with The Waterboys , she adds was when Cooney and Begley came out on the road with the band . |
| 22 | There was movement in the cage from where the old female 's voice came and a shadow came out on the floor of her cage , thin and gaunt , the silhouette of an eagle . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I gripped the banister and swung myself head over heels , then came out on the roof of a tower . |
| 25 | Some changes came about on the death of Henry VIII , when the General Surveyors were absorbed into Augmentations , but it was apparent that more drastic reforms were needed . |
| 26 | His eyes shut for one second , then he moved , coming down on the bed beside her . |
| 27 | But who can blame UEFA , post-Heysel , for coming down on the side of life and limb before either is lost ? |
| 28 | I have been criticised for coming down on the side of the second alternative . |
| 29 | Sure , they 're all coming up on the bus from Mullingar/Limerick/Cork on Friday for the whole weekend . ’ |
| 30 | Erm it 's really just coming back on the issue of concealed household earlier . |