Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] aside the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She drew aside the curtain of a small window and stood back for me to see the picture thus revealed . |
| 2 | The gate handle clicked sharply and she drew aside the lace curtain . |
| 3 | She brushed aside the accusations and told the viewers : ‘ Heck , if you do n't like it , do n't vote for him . ’ |
| 4 | She saw him then , running swiftly towards her , and she pulled aside the fence , squeezing through the gap . |
| 5 | She put aside the guilty thought that he made love as if he had studied it as he had told her he once studied keyboard fingering and Bach 's Innovations . |
| 6 | She pushed aside the clothing and revealed him , all small and disconsolate and shrivelled looking , knees drawn up under chin in a foetal position . |
| 7 | Libby was Jim Hawkins going to warn the Squire and Dr Livesey , she pushed aside the ferns . |
| 8 | On the evidence available from their thorough training sessions and the way they brushed aside the challenge from a truly competitive outfit here , it is hard to see these All Blacks returning home as ‘ failures ’ . |
| 9 | They dragged aside the floorboard the humans had loosened and helped him up . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He flung aside the door he was suddenly lying beneath , stared up bitterly and ran a black shirt-cuff across his bloodied nose . |
| 12 | With an angry , violent gesture he flung aside the broken piece of door . |
| 13 | It moved aside the earth and found the petrified wood that was the heart in the forest . |
| 14 | He moved aside the folded tephillim and uncovered five neatly-bound books . |
| 15 | Then the briefest pause before he drew aside the curtain to enter with dignity and calm . |
| 16 | He cast aside the shackles of statesmanship imposed by his minders throughout the campaign to denounce the arrogance of the Press and political establishment who had condemned him as cocky and inadequate to be prime minister . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's enough of that , ’ Ross told them firmly as he threw aside the sheets , revealing the fact that he was wearing a pair of boxer shorts . |
| 18 | And furthermore — ’ he brushed aside the other 's indignant protests — ‘ the body of a French officer lies under the tricolour , not these flea-bitten rags . |
| 19 | He brushed aside the views of the joint chiefs of staff , ascribing their opposition to ignorance of the Far East . |
| 20 | He pulled aside the mosquito net and in the gray light caught sight of his gleaming double-barrelled Holland and Holland 450 propped against the wall of the hut . |
| 21 | Old Red watched the older man 's slow movements clinically as he held aside the red screen , then followed him out to talk . |
| 22 | He pushed aside the civilian Junta using it only to give decent sanction to new promotions . |
| 23 | He pushed aside the recollection and stepped out on to the dock . |
| 24 | It was apparent to Cassie that the discovery that she wore very little beneath her outer clothing had had a powerfully erotic effect upon him , and now he pushed aside the bodice and gazed at her breast , at the same time remarking appreciatively : ‘ You 're an astonishing girl , Cassie . |
| 25 | But something in his brother 's petition alerted him , and he pushed aside the quire of his new score . |
| 26 | Without waiting for a reply , he pushed aside the already unfastened fronts of her jacket , and then the shoulder-straps of her slip and bra . |
| 27 | He pushed aside the pan and went to her by the sink , wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her back against him . |
| 28 | For the moment he set aside the obvious solution . |
| 29 | Gently , he nudged aside the silken folds of her robe , and brushed his mouth over the creamy expanse of her flesh , his tongue dipping lightly to taste the shadowed valley between her breasts . |