Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] on the side of " 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 | 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 . " |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was a Protestant mercenary from Moravia who foresaw Habsburg victory and joined up on the side of the emperor . |
| 13 | This was a ground-floor room which bulged out on the side of the house looking towards the big lawn and the stables . |
| 14 | But who can blame UEFA , post-Heysel , for coming down on the side of life and limb before either is lost ? |
| 15 | I have been criticised for coming down on the side of the second alternative . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sheer orders of magnitude matter , and the orders of magnitude do not come down on the side of the real-balance effect . |
| 19 | But this what the act says on this particular point — it 's interesting to see because it really does come down on the side of integration . |
| 20 | Slumping down on the side of the bed , she stared blankly at the cheque in her hand . |
| 21 | Leonora turned away , sighing , to slump down on the side of her bed . |
| 22 | Nevertheless she thought it best to humour him and sat down on the side of the table away from him and put her clasped hands on its polished top . |
| 23 | Rachel sighed and shook her head slightly then with a little shrug she sat down on the side of the pool and dangled her legs in the water . |
| 24 | After a while , wishing to support the undertaking , Finch sat up on the side of his bed and played something buoyant on his cello . |