Example sentences of "[noun pl] came out [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Princess Diana gave birth to a son and things looked like fast returning to normal in Britain as nurses came out on strike , the London tube drivers came out on strike and the NUR threatened a strike . |
| 2 | The words came out without thinking , and Folly bit her lip . |
| 3 | In a first round of voting during the summer , and then during their closed-doors assembly at a secret spot in Berlin yesterday , the musicians came out in favour of a likeable man who has worked well with all kinds of orchestras , and who is diplomatic rather than autocratic . |
| 4 | The UK and other European countries came out in favour of setting strict targets on emissions of carbon dioxide , methane and nitrous oxides . |
| 5 | Fortunately my fellow walkers ' feet came out in sympathy . |
| 6 | Given the lack of clear and early advice , the General Council 's policy was ignored and many second line workers came out in support of the miners . |
| 7 | second time around , by chance or otherwise , as animals further evolved to repopulate the Earth , the mammals came out on top ( although a case can be made that it was really the insects that came out on top ! ) |
| 8 | They the da the harbour master 's men at the lock gates came out on strike . |
| 9 | Meanwhile at New Bradwell , boys would rush home from school to collect lunch baskets , place them in hand trucks , and then run to the messroom ( over one mile ) , so the meal was plated just before the men came out of work . |
| 10 | Having played little part in the August riots ( epitomised by the derisory slogan , ‘ IRA — I Ran Away ’ ) , old IRA men came out of retirement ( Rose , 1972 ) and ‘ there was a steady stream of recruits from young men who had seen houses and streets burnt down by Loyalist mobs and who 'd been unable to prevent them ’ ( Farrell , 1980:267 ) . |
| 11 | In sixteen ports employers bought themselves out of trouble with increases for 2,500 seamen of between 5s and 15s a month , but few men came out in support of the national rate except at Liverpool and on the Tyne and the employers then mounted a counter attack , enforcing decreases of equivalent amounts on the north east coast and in Cardiff , Glasgow and Liverpool between October 1899 and January 1900 , using strike-breaking tactics where necessary . |
| 12 | And the communications specialists came out on top — by just seven points — 55-47 . |
| 13 | Princess Diana gave birth to a son and things looked like fast returning to normal in Britain as nurses came out on strike , the London tube drivers came out on strike and the NUR threatened a strike . |
| 14 | There were bitter struggles in the courts on the right to strike and the power of trade unions , which led to the creation of the Labour Party , with fearful signs of a new and radical anger among the working class through and beyond the strike-bound year of 1911 when even schoolchildren came out on strike in some districts , ‘ for shorter hours and no stick ’ . |
| 15 | The new progressive democrats came out in favour of the referendum proposal on 14 May . |