Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on the side " in BNC.
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| 1 | To steady himself he sank down on the side of the bed . |
| 2 | Robbie 's legs gave way and she sank down on the side of the bed . |
| 3 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . " |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | Having contemplated the pro 's and con 's Darwin came down on the side in favour of marriage . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Guv'nor says you 're to set off on the side nearest him , ’ Bob said briefly . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ And a speedy return , ’ said Caspar , winking plumply on the side that the giants could not see . |
| 16 | Perhaps the last three Sonatas verge more on the side of a string quintet , after all they were roughly contemporaneous with the great C major String Quintet ? |
| 17 | He was a Protestant mercenary from Moravia who foresaw Habsburg victory and joined up on the side of the emperor . |
| 18 | You know , perhaps if you straightened up on the side , or made it a bit more symmetrical , so that I know how to improve it next time . |
| 19 | You approach it along the narrowest road which creeps warily on the side of a steep chalk plateau , one step up from the flat farm land which , after a mile or so , tumbles to West Fleet and over Chesil Beach into the sea . |
| 20 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 21 | This was a ground-floor room which bulged out on the side of the house looking towards the big lawn and the stables . |
| 22 | Each photocell is , in effect , wired in backwards , with its wire sticking out on the side nearest the light . |
| 23 | ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was painted boldly on the side . |
| 24 | They trust you to get into a panic and err wildly on the side of generosity . ’ |
| 25 | But who can blame UEFA , post-Heysel , for coming down on the side of life and limb before either is lost ? |
| 26 | I have been criticised for coming down on the side of the second alternative . |
| 27 | On the way back he pulled up on the side of the road and just said mum and him could n't live together any more . ’ |
| 28 | In his critical essay , A Full Enquiry into the True Nature of Pastoral ( 1717 ) , he examined many of the issues treated by Thomas Tickell and Alexander Pope [ qq.v. ] in the Guardian dispute of 1713 , and argued strongly on the side of Tickell that writers of pastorals should use imagery drawn from contemporary rural life . |
| 29 | All these years he had been carrying on on the side and now here was actual proof of it . |
| 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 . |