put on one side
Example Sentences
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Too many dishes were put on one side, and in the middle of the dinner the table tipped over.
From Time Magazine Archive
After you die, your sins will be put on one side of a scale, and Ma’at’s feather will be put on the other.”
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
Austerely the records run; austerely, too, is related her Majesty's desire that a certain perfect waist-coat, the fame of which had reached her ears, should be put on one side for her Majesty's personal use.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
But this theory had to be put on one side.
From Luck at the Diamond Fields by Dalrymple J. Belgrave
But we are now writing of the summer, after the snow has all melted, the snow-ploughs put on one side, and the roads recovered from the havoc wrought by the streams of melting snow.
From Peeps at Many Lands: Norway by A. Heaton (Alfred Heaton) Cooper
