Example sentences of "[vb pp] aside the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Ace grimaced , reached down and hesitantly pulled aside the tattered sheet of black silk . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |