Example sentences of "[v-ing] aside [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they went , hurrying in the easy g down the tunnel after the bird , pushing aside a grey canvas curtain , stumbling down carved steps , squeezing between squat brown stalagmites that grew like cankers out of the floor , through a crack into a cave where the wall had crumbled away , revealing a comblike structure of fat , thick-walled cells . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | His searching mouth made a languid foray to the silky disorder of her blouse , nudging aside the filmy material . |
| 6 | Benstead had made another great save turning aside a rasping shot from Ian Bishop and in the second half Trevor Morley blazed over . |
| 7 | Kicking aside a shattered bone , he hurried on . |
| 8 | Sharpe pursued him , kicking aside a spindly gilt chair . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nosing aside the dingy curtains , he peered at the village . |
| 11 | It is a mood which is sweeping aside the cautious Keynesianism of Valtre Komarek . |
| 12 | By sweeping aside the common law doctrine of privity in this way , it was clear that in theory insiders would be potentially exposed to vast liability . |
| 13 | Lord Templeman said that sweeping aside the public interest factor without any trial would have ‘ established a ‘ charter for traitors ’ to publish on the most massive scale in England whatever they had managed to publish abroad' . |
| 14 | We can use affirmations to bring a positive , joyful attitude to life in general — either using them as needed during the day , or putting aside a few minutes every day to affirm our beliefs . |
| 15 | Putting aside the personal feud between Streisand and Matthau , Crawford considered the one ‘ destructive element ’ in the production to be Ernest Lehman , who walked around looking unhappy throughout . |
| 16 | A man sitting in a group , leaning against the wall of the shrine , starts shaking and stands up , throwing aside the woollen blanket he wears as a shawl and kicking off his shoes . |
| 17 | Leaving aside the occasional inept vinyl-to-CD transfer or wilfully bizarre remix , digital sound and I co-exist quite happily ; my main reason for a return to the vinyl frontier is a hankering to hear certain pieces of music from my retired record collection . |
| 18 | Leaving aside the former Eastern bloc countries , the bulletin estimates that the world market for mechanical engineering is worth about DM1,500 billion a year . |
| 19 | I shall raise four main issues , leaving aside the financial strictures and the policy itself , because such matters can not be dealt with simply in an Adjournment debate . |
| 20 | The Opposition have no quarrel with the principle of disposal , leaving aside the financial implications . |
| 21 | However , leaving aside the intolerable heat , there was no doubt that New York was a really amazing place . |
| 22 | Leaving aside the moral issue , it is obviously desirable that schools should foster awareness of the physical risks of sexual activity , and especially of the danger of contracting a sexually transmitted disease . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , his attempt to move international relations from the study of relations between nations to the study of ‘ world society ’ ( leaving aside the essential vagueness of this latter idea ) , did represent a progressive problem shift for all those interested in the elephants rather than the little creatures . |
| 24 | Religious activities are just as poorly represented , leaving aside the possible temples already described . |
| 25 | Leaving aside the political implications , the circumstance that the money was paid under the sentence of a court , albeit one that was held to have no jurisdiction , gives the case a flavour of duress , so that it is not a significant authority in Woolwich 's favour . |
| 26 | Leaving aside the famous names , which will inevitably be more costly , great numbers of obscure and humble folk have chosen this friendly and attractive method of identifying their precious books and have thereby secured a small niche in the history of bibliophily . |
| 27 | Leaving aside the injured Roberto Baggio , Andrea Carnevale and Ricardo Ferri , today 's side is the strongest available . |
| 28 | Leaving aside the injured Roberto Baggio , Andrea Carnevale and Ricardo Ferri , today 's side is the strongest available . |
| 29 | Leaving aside the unresolved problem that this raises , the significant fact from the point of view of the present discussion is that bituminous coals with ranks down to medium volatile grade occur in South Wales and Kent , and as low as high volatile grade in South Wales and Somerset immediately to the north of the Variscan Front , and appear to be disappearing beneath it . |
| 30 | Leaving aside the numerous examples of the rise and fall of parties over the past century , there are many instances of change even in the relatively short period of time since the end of the Second World War . |