Example sentences of "and stand [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His best work has a direct simplicity , benefits from its autobiographical inspiration , and stands as a worthy memorial to all those who died in the Spanish civil war . |
| 2 | The Carnaud Metal Box plant in Wennington Road on the edge of the town was built only six years ago and stands in a landscaped site of some four acres . |
| 3 | the man who 's actually called out in the middle of the night and stands in the pouring rain with his mac on directing operations . |
| 4 | They yield 6.2 p.c. and stand on a historic multiple of 12½ . |
| 5 | I want the clouds sweeping over the stubble when I creep and stand on the front steps after reading all night , and our owls hoot , and everyone 's sleeping upstairs , sleeping sound , in quiet bedrooms . |
| 6 | The light above the front door was switched off , and a cleaner emerged from the theatre with a black plastic bag of rubbish and a broom , and began to brush the foyer , ignoring Jude — who was the last visible occupant — until he reached her , when he gave her a glance of such venom she decided to put up her umbrella and stand on the darkened step . |
| 7 | Others , though redundant , are maintained to the point of safety and stand as an impressive reminder of a more faithful age . |
| 8 | I walk back up the steps and stand in the open doorway with the gun smoking by my side . |
| 9 | A quaint , old provision peculiar to Ireland , enabling a Member to resign , go bankrupt , and stand in the ensuing by-election has , sadly , disappeared ( see Hollinshead v Hazelton [ 1916 ] 1 AC 428 , 452–3 ) . |
| 10 | It was such a jolly little lighthouse , white , and standing at the very end of a promontory . |
| 11 | He opened its eyes , and standing astride the small body , he clasped it between his rough hands and pulled it up . |
| 12 | She would have reacted in exactly the same way if she had been stone-cold sober and standing in a bare room under a fluorescent light . |
| 13 | If considerations of foreign diplomacy , unquestionably influenced by his personal fears of the international power of world Jewry , were paramount , the protection of his prestige and standing among the German public was clearly also a matter of concern to Hitler . |
| 14 | In 1880 he had had a political fling and stood as a Liberal candidate for the City of London in favour of disestablishment , temperance legislation , social and political reform . |
| 15 | He was Hampshire 's coach in 1939 and stood as a first-class umpire in 1949 , the year before his death . |
| 16 | They took no notice of him and stood on the front step , talking in low voices . |
| 17 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 18 | They scrambled over the rabbit netting and stood on the muddy track , flushed and panting , mud stains on their legs and clothes . |
| 19 | Charles collapsed like a glove puppet with the hand withdrawn , and stood for a long moment , sagging . |
| 20 | She had risen from her deep curtsey , and stood for a long moment gazing steadily into his face . |
| 21 | When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway . |
| 22 | She went up to her room , put the Diary in her drawer and stood for a long time , breathing on the window and drawing faces . |
| 23 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |
| 24 | He went and stood over the crumpled heap that was Luke . |
| 25 | She should have avoided the Glass House , but she went there at every opportunity , and stood beside the streaming panes with her eyes closed , willing herself to capture something . |
| 26 | The threw back the bedclothes , shed her clinging nightgown and stood under a cool shower until she began to come alive . |
| 27 | Virginia pushed her bike on to the grass-verge and stood under the heavy foliage of the trees for shelter . |
| 28 | Severed eyes are best potted individually in good clean garden soil and stood in a shallow bowl of water with their growing points submerged . |
| 29 | They came and stood in a little group , disciplined and obedient . |
| 30 | The piglets slowed their headlong gallop to a trot , then , as though controlled by telepathy , they all stopped at once and stood in a pink group in one corner , |