Example sentences of "i stood in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop .
2 I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy .
3 I stood in the slanting sunlight , warm and yellow around me , the stench of burning flesh and grass on the wind , the smoke rising into the air from burrows and cadavers , grey and black , the sweet smell of leaking unburned petrol coming from the Flame-thrower where I 'd left it , and I breathed deeply .
4 I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it .
5 I stood in the little clearing round the ruined walls .
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