Example sentences of "come [adv prt] on the [adj] side " in BNC.

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1 Mountbatten 's especial qualification in Attlee 's eyes for the job of viceroy was his success in getting the Burmese nationalists to come in on the British side in the closing stages of the war ; it was Attlee 's firm belief in later life , as indeed it was Mountbatten 's , that if Mountbatten had been left in charge in Rangoon , Burma would never have left the Commonwealth .
2 Yes they push er Crosby has gone up front erm with Collimore and Stone 's come out on the right-hand side .
3 What you have going for you is the ability to withstand whatever is dished up and to come out on the winning side .
4 And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines .
5 He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers .
6 But at last she came out on the other side and ran after them as before , calling out , " Hoo !
7 Hazel came out on the farther side of the ilexes and followed the path round a bend .
8 France , Germany and Italy came out on the sceptical side , with the UK , the Netherlands and North America on the other .
9 Looking up at the north-facing slope ahead you would see snow and ice and you would tremble , but you would know that coming down on the other side , you would walk in sunshine , through green grass and sweet-smelling flowers .
10 This error is like climbing below a col , and coming up on the wrong side of it .
11 Although striking an important psychological blow by coming out on the winning side against his main challenger , Wasps ' Steve Bates , he admitted : ‘ Even though I am the man in possession , it would be just as easy for the selectors to pick Steve . ’
12 And would be seriously undermined by any proposed road that will come in on the western side .
13 Saturday 's 2-1 win was Sunderland 's third in succession and Crosby said : ‘ We can still come up on the blind side .
14 They do n't come out on the other side !
15 In some cases you will find that three times the drift on the outbound leg is too much , and the outbound heading comes out on the wrong side of the wind .
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