Example sentences of "she stand aside " in BNC.

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1 Every time she saw him again after an absence she stood aside humbly , expecting him at last to have reached the age when she was an embarrassment , expecting him to shuffle his feet and colour and do no more than extend a cool hand , and she would have held none of this against him .
2 But as she stood aside to let them enter he saw that her wrists and ankles were slim and delicate , curiously at odds with the sturdy body , heavy-busted , almost voluptuous under the high-necked blouse .
3 She stood aside as Ace floated into the cabin , and without any preliminary checks she started to shut down the spacesuit 's systems .
4 He said , ‘ Angie … ’ and she stood aside to let him in , lost for words , then followed him to the kitchen , as if he were showing her the way .
5 She stood aside from the Austro-Prussian War and watched while Prussia completed her preparation for pan-German hegemony .
6 She stood aside , silently offering him entrance .
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