Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] aside the [noun sg] " 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 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 4 | She saw him then , running swiftly towards her , and she pulled aside the fence , squeezing through the gap . |
| 5 | She pushed aside the clothing and revealed him , all small and disconsolate and shrivelled looking , knees drawn up under chin in a foetal position . |
| 6 | In the Hemingway version , these frames are separated into two blocks which , if we leave aside the opening sentence , comprise five sentences of description followed by five sentences of action . |
| 7 | Yet the world champion is so unpredictably gifted that one on-song display could easily enable her to sweep aside the opposition . |
| 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 flung aside the door he was suddenly lying beneath , stared up bitterly and ran a black shirt-cuff across his bloodied nose . |
| 11 | It moved aside the earth and found the petrified wood that was the heart in the forest . |
| 12 | Then the briefest pause before he drew aside the curtain to enter with dignity and calm . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He sets aside the question whether there is any important difference of principle between the case of a mother who suffers emotional injury watching her child hit by a car and a mother who suffers the same sort of injury seeing her child bloody in a hospital . |
| 16 | He pushed aside the recollection and stepped out on to the dock . |
| 17 | He pushed aside the pan and went to her by the sink , wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her back against him . |
| 18 | But something in his brother 's petition alerted him , and he pushed aside the quire of his new score . |
| 19 | 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 . |