Example sentences of "[pers pn] aside [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had got used to living in Brighton , and saw no reason to uproot themselves , but one of their tutors took them aside and said , ‘ Look , this place has n't got a proper research library , and it 's not going to get one . |
| 2 | Ludens kicked them aside and held the door open for Marcus . |
| 3 | But they met anyway , in part because in their early childhood one or other of their parents , usually but not always the father , had taken them aside and told them a great responsibility would fall to them : the carrying forward of a hermetically protected family secret , and in part because the Society looked after its own . |
| 4 | The back of a head pushed one of them aside and pressed so close into her face that hair came into her mouth , she could smell the less than clean hair and see the beads of dandruff . |
| 5 | I was very happy ; and if sometimes the familiarities in our relationship were of an irritating nature ( like the way he teased me , as he had always teased me , about my sticking-out ears , for instance ) I pushed them aside and refused to acknowledge them — even when they were quite important , the sort of things on which the nagging small voice was once wont to pounce as reasons against any positive commitment . |
| 6 | Spatz looked up at Ellis and took the files from him , sorting through them with a great show of self-importance , before finally setting them aside and looking across at Kim . |
| 7 | And you would go back to that and you would maybe have um you maybe had you 'd maybe have a chest of drawers and the drawers were out and you would be polishing you know , doing so much on them , put them aside and then go back to that . |
| 8 | A girl who 's managed to stay alive for a whole year takes me aside and passes on the two basic rules of survival : 1 ) Never get separated from the others . |
| 9 | The father drew me aside and we exchanged names , Nicholas and Gonzalo . |
| 10 | On the following evening [ 11 July 1962 ] , as a meeting of the Committee of the Cabinet was ending , Macmillan took me aside and said ‘ The Government is breaking up ’ , and murmured something about ‘ You do n't mind going ? ’ |
| 11 | One day he took me aside and left me with the designer , a nervous girl who always wore black . |
| 12 | Shadwell took me aside and said , ‘ A word about the accent , Karim . |
| 13 | Before we sat down in the restaurant Jamila took me aside and kissed me on the mouth . |
| 14 | ‘ The referee took me aside and penalised me for ‘ over-robust ’ play , not foul play . ’ |
| 15 | Every couple of months he takes me aside and , his breath sweet with trapped drink , asks me how I am . |
| 16 | A burly serjeant-at-arms pushed me aside and bravely told ‘ his lads ’ to follow him up . |
| 17 | Bill made a determined effort to push me aside and I had to let him . |
| 18 | I do not wish you to violate your oath of secrecy or your conscience but , ’ and he tuned to look eagerly at the Bishop , ‘ with His Lordship 's permission , I would like to take you aside and quietly ask you one question ? |
| 19 | He had brought out his lists , four sheets , and had got them half fixed to the door when Allan knocked him aside and tore them down and then spent an hour , with James 's help , going down the names and telling the young men to their faces whether or not they were listed . |
| 20 | An aide had apparently taken him aside and told him to do something fast about his image . |
| 21 | There was a young American photographer with me and I saw him get caught up in it and I pulled him aside and said ‘ Do n't even take it because that 's the picture that Newsweek is going to publish . |
| 22 | She was teasing , but I answered , ‘ I 'd guess Mercer assured the waiter he would n't be fired and took him aside and gave him twenty dollars . ’ |
| 23 | I gently pushed him aside and walked in and he followed me around reading with great enthusiasm while I poured the contents of my shoes down the sink , removed my coat and made us both a hot drink , interjecting now and again with , ‘ Fancy that ! ’ |
| 24 | Charlie still looked upset , but Sister removed him before I could take him aside and soothe him . |
| 25 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 26 | We crossed each other on the street some time ago and he went to talk ; I just pushed him aside and told him to fuck off . |
| 27 | An enthusiastic Snotling will fight his way forward and pump like crazy for a while until he is completely exhausted when another will shove him aside and take over . |
| 28 | Harvey thrust him aside and , with a gallantry which began even to him to appear to be excessively foolish , given the time and place , dragged Amaranth from the clutches of the mob . |
| 29 | Robert jumped to his feet , but she waved him aside and placed the tea and biscuits on a nearby table . |
| 30 | Athelstan took him aside and stared into the bleary-eyed face . |