Example sentences of "[verb] aside [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every now and again , they would have to stand aside as a great shire horse , leaning into its collar , plodded by . |
| 2 | His survival as a traditional monarch was exceptional in a period when , elsewhere in Africa , tribal authority was denigrated and often pushed aside as an antique obstacle to the path of modernization and national self-determination . |
| 3 | For her the world was full of young men whose bodies were untainted by disease and these — he persuaded himself — were the ones she really craved , having no care for him at all , except some morbid interest in a diseased thing , which , presently , she would thrust aside with a disdainful shudder . |
| 4 | Set aside in a cool place . |
| 5 | But their efforts were brushed aside at an angry meeting of Durham County Council , which approved the social services committee 's decision to close the homes . |
| 6 | Roman 's deep voice made Myra step aside with a knowing smile . |
| 7 | Merlyn stepped aside with a supercilious look which the older woman pretended not to see . |
| 8 | One track in each cylinder is set aside as an embedded overflow area . |
| 9 | The VPE , headed by Solange Fernex , also wants the funds left over from the Presidential campaign of Bruce Lalonde , one of the AT 's leading lights , to go into a common kitty , rather than being set aside for a future bid for power by Lalonde — perhaps in the European parliament elections in 1984 . |
| 10 | From the party viewpoint Law 's methods were successful but dangerous ; expectations raised when the party was in full cry were not easily set aside for an eventual compromise , and the only outcome that would fully vindicate the methods was the recovery of power . |
| 11 | Kelsen further holds , in one of his most mysterious doctrines , that the primacy of the principle of delegation means that even a determination outside the frame is valid and binding unless and until set aside by a higher decision . |
| 12 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 13 | And all at once the coldness that had seemed to freeze her was being swept aside by a sudden rushing warmth . |
| 14 | I hate to see ‘ Guernica ’ picked up and cast aside like an old sock . |
| 15 | If the war was n't actually forgotten , it was put aside for a few days in the district around Screehaugh . |
| 16 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 17 | Then Carrie jumped aside as a passing bus threw up some slush from the gutter , and as she brushed her hands down over the bottom of her coat , she said , ‘ You 'd think they did it on purpose , ’ and as he went to assist her she stayed his hands , saying , ‘ It 'll only make it worse . |
| 18 | At the corner of Bowyers Row they stood aside as a huge , wooden wagon rolled by , pulled by four horses , their manes hogged , eyes blinkered and nostrils flaring at the corrupting smell of death . |