Example sentences of "[verb] aside the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved aside the folded tephillim and uncovered five neatly-bound books . |
| 2 | I doubt that she 'll ever go upstairs again , ’ he added , going to the window and pushing aside the long red drapes . |
| 3 | Pushing aside the imposed conventions , the restraints and inhibitions she 'd always accepted as right and proper , necessary even , she pressed herself against him . |
| 4 | When Edmund had left her she had wandered as far as the orchard , and had just pushed aside the crooked wicker gate to re-enter the garden when she heard the latch of the heavier postern rattle . |
| 5 | But put aside the question-begging character of the premiss , and turn instead to the conclusion . |
| 6 | that would be to completely undermine the effect of article eighty five , we simply would n't be able to raise our shield at all , we would have a counterclaim but at which point since we had no of what erm , for example as one of it 's principal defences , defences , erm we would say we 've made the plaintiffs case very much easier , they 've now got all our money , we 're bankrupt , we ca n't pursue our claim because we 've got no money to pursue it with in article eighty five would of been completely undermined because we would not of had a realistic opportunity to raise article eighty five as a defence and your Lordship to do that would of had to not only set aside the counterclaim as a set off , but also to set aside the entire eighty five defence to stayed it or to have set it aside |
| 7 | Those leaders have tried to keep their empires isolated from the Darwinian laws of survival , despite the fact that none of the ‘ gods ’ as presented by them has ever been able to set aside the inexorable operation of those laws . |
| 8 | Lies applied by summons to set aside the fourth party notice served on them and succeeded in their application . |
| 9 | The relevant conditions of section 142(2) and ( 4 ) were mandatory , not directory , and unless they were established there was no jurisdiction to set aside the earlier conviction . |
| 10 | DOCTORS are hoping to persuade North-East sportsmen to set aside the magic sponge for more sophisticated medical techniques . |
| 11 | Morton had met many like him ; the thrusting entrepreneurs who could shoulder aside the rigid structures of Victorian society , and almost be accepted … |
| 12 | Brushing aside the major political problem of French colonialism , ( 'there was no reason to discuss the question further' ) the real problem for de Lattre was guaranteeing priorities on the delivery of equipment . |
| 13 | Friuli is a particularly rich site for bird trappers , since it sits aside the main north-south trans-European migratory route . |
| 14 | His searching mouth made a languid foray to the silky disorder of her blouse , nudging aside the filmy material . |
| 15 | He stopped short of understanding Christianity because when he thought about that , he laid aside the receptive imagination with which he allowed himself to appreciate myth and became rigidly narrow and empiricist . |
| 16 | With an angry , violent gesture he flung aside the broken piece of door . |
| 17 | Instead , we waste no time in nonchalantly kicking aside the obligatory minor celebs who form queues daily in the hope we might let them press their lips against our sinfully expensive shoe leather , and march forcefully into the Ed 's inner sanctum . |
| 18 | Somewhat ironically , in view of the detailed , convoluted negotiations of the previous year , the constitutional agreement was not put to the test in the ways intended as the outbreak of war in September 1939 set aside the anticipated position irrevocably . |
| 19 | Activities that would lead towards the objective of writing a short story might be , ‘ clear the spare room out and set up a desk ’ , ‘ enrol on a weekend workshop on creative writing ’ , ‘ set aside the next four Sunday afternoons for writing ’ , ‘ arrange to visit a friend in six weeks ’ time with a completed first draft' . |
| 20 | A new New Left , drawing from Dialectics of Liberation , brushed aside the tentative offerings of the old New Left , gathered in its May Day Manifesto group and comprising such stalwarts of post-1956 as Raymond Williams , E.P . |
| 21 | His hand brushed aside the long , thick hair , his lips beginning to move over her tender nape , and Maggie gave a small whimper of desire , melting against him . |
| 22 | Ace grimaced , reached down and hesitantly pulled aside the tattered sheet of black silk . |
| 23 | The new president , Mr Fernando Collor de Mello , has cast aside the timid economic adjustments that have failed to cure Latin America 's sick borrowers . |
| 24 | Thomas Cartwright , the Elizabethan Presbyterian , declared on one occasion that ‘ heaps ’ of his contemporaries had cast aside the old religion without discovering the new , and the minister Josias Nichols complained in 1602 that only one in ten of the inhabitants of a Kentish parish with 400 communicants knew the basics of Protestant doctrine . |
| 25 | David has cast aside the false breasts , the clamp that pushed his genitals under his body , the waist constrictors , the make-up and the clothes . |
| 26 | But let's leave aside the whole question of the truth of the statement , which I think is going to lead us , if we 're not careful , to the hideout of some other gang altogether . |
| 27 | I can not express to you the enchanted effect produced by this Arabian scene of colour as the wind blew aside the great waterfall behind which we stood and hid . |
| 28 | If the party now announced it was going to introduce real democracy by giving England her rightful representation this would cause a sensation , sweep aside the pat-ball politics and allow for the start of serious thinking about the future of the UK . |
| 29 | Simultaneously the reader responds to the transpersonal unsteadiness , the possessed state of the book , and feels an urge to thrust aside the irresolute self-contradictory narrator and repose upon the story of von Lemke with his cut-out toys and yellow autumn flower . |
| 30 | Most newly independent governments were attracted to an agricultural strategy which thrust aside the supposed limitations of the existing agricultural system and adopted various forms of ‘ transformation ’ approach . |