Example sentences of "[verb] 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 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 3 | The gate handle clicked sharply and she drew aside the lace curtain . |
| 4 | Then the briefest pause before he drew aside the curtain to enter with dignity and calm . |
| 5 | She might have to , Isabel decided , as he laughed again and his hand drew aside the neck of her shift , exposing the delicate lines of her throat and shoulders . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you awake at all there , Rose ? ’ he whispered before reaching out to pull aside the bedclothes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He moved aside the folded tephillim and uncovered five neatly-bound books . |
| 9 | It moved aside the earth and found the petrified wood that was the heart in the forest . |
| 10 | Pushing aside the pad he returned to his task . |
| 11 | There was nowhere to sit so , pushing aside the handles of four encrusted saucepans , he leant against the gas cooker . |
| 12 | ‘ Come out of there , Anna , ’ Edward said , pushing aside the baskets . |
| 13 | They also discovered the benefits of free trade ; pushing aside the objections of peninsular officials and Spanish merchants , they traded with British merchants who flocked to the River Plate . |
| 14 | Pushing aside the leaves , she saw him stop halfway across the lawn and bend his head to light a cigarette . |
| 15 | For creative partner , Steve Henry , pushing aside the frontiers of advertising suited his agency and the people in it . |
| 16 | She sighed and , pushing aside the canopy curtains , got out of the bed and shrugged on a green muslin bathrobe . |
| 17 | I doubt that she 'll ever go upstairs again , ’ he added , going to the window and pushing aside the long red drapes . |
| 18 | Pushing aside the imposed conventions , the restraints and inhibitions she 'd always accepted as right and proper , necessary even , she pressed herself against him . |
| 19 | Paperbacks in general had pushed aside the hardback , except for the specialized and coffee table markets . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But put aside the question-begging character of the premiss , and turn instead to the conclusion . |
| 22 | But put aside the party point scoring and one indisputable fact emerges which will readily be agreed by all health service staff are a breed apart with their dedication to duty , willingness to work long hours and commitment to patient care . |
| 23 | The Government were also planning to set aside the results of another competition that they had held for model barracks and this , along with the revelations over the fate of the Government Offices competition , provoked the Council of the Institute into action . |
| 24 | Those leaders have tried to keep their empires isolated from the Darwinian laws of survival , despite the fact that none of the ‘ gods ’ as presented by them has ever been able to set aside the inexorable operation of those laws . |
| 25 | Lies applied by summons to set aside the fourth party notice served on them and succeeded in their application . |
| 26 | Held , dismissing the appeal , the issue was whether , on June 13 , the justices had any jurisdiction to set aside the convictions recorded on May 16 . |
| 27 | The relevant conditions of section 142(2) and ( 4 ) were mandatory , not directory , and unless they were established there was no jurisdiction to set aside the earlier conviction . |
| 28 | The justices purported to set aside the conviction 29 days after the finding of guilt and none of the convicting justices had been a party to the decision to set it aside , so neither of the two conditions obtained . |
| 29 | The defendants asserted their privilege against making possibly incriminating disclosure by what seems to me the unusual step of incorporating in a summons their application to set aside the paragraphs of Buckley J. 's order which appeared likely to upset that privilege and supporting that application by affidavits expressing their apprehensions in vague terms . |
| 30 | The trial judge refused , however , to set aside the charge , ‘ it not having been established that the bank or its officers exercised any undue influence over Mrs. Perry . ’ |