Example sentences of "he stand at [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statue to him stands at the junction of Seagate and Castle Street , Irvine . |
| 2 | He stood at the back of the packed auditorium . |
| 3 | He stood at the window of his room , watching her . |
| 4 | He stood at the top of a long flight of wide stone steps . |
| 5 | He stood at the top of the stairs , looking back at Hilary — chunky , lively , absorbed — and at his paintings . |
| 6 | The mythic figure of the General — as portrayed in the War Memoirs — had known , from the moment he stood at the top of the Champs Elysées on 26 August 1944 , that the new leaders whom the war had brought to power would betray the cause of national renewal . |
| 7 | As he rushed onwards it lengthened and curved , until he stood at the edge of a cold volcanic cauldron , looking down at the mountain 's secret , a still , dark lake which gleamed green at the foot of the crags . |
| 8 | He stood at the edge of the slope , looking down the line of his cordon and into the turgid water . |
| 9 | He stood at the edge of the bed , looking down at her . |
| 10 | He stood at the door of the bathroom , visualizing this most familiar of her rituals . |
| 11 | In light of this , he expected no reward but this day he knew he had received one as he stood at the door of a ward of children on whom he had operated , now sleeping peacefully and painlessly . |
| 12 | He stood at the centre of the Sun Chamber , and a terrible hush fell . |
| 13 | He stood at the stern of the yacht with his back to her . |
| 14 | Whenever he stood at the turn of the great stairs , with the entrance-hall and main door at his back , he knew he was facing the very worst the house could offer . |
| 15 | The fertile combination of theory and practice was his own , however , and he stood at the head of a great group of people working on the new phenomena of electricity . |
| 16 | Alain came in as the doctor 's car left the house and he stood at the foot of the bed and regarded her sternly . |
| 17 | He stood at the bottom of the steps and looked up at her so fiercely that she stopped halfway down and felt quite uneasy , wondering exactly what she had done wrong . |
| 18 | Having been gently reminded by Lady Rutherford , ‘ We are all philanthropists here ; we do not need to put our hands up if we wish to speak ’ , William Morris completely forgot his shyness and at one stage became so carried away that he stood at the front of the room shaking hands with himself . |
| 19 | He stood at the side of his son 's darkened room , watching Chrissie striking the boy 's forehead . |
| 20 | Lewis jumped off the Range Rover ( Verity wobbled a little as the car bounced on its springs , but recovered ) ; he stood at the side of the car , between me and it , and held one hand up to Verity . |
| 21 | He stood at the side of Pentonville Road , by a telephone junction-box with posters advertising Woza Albert on it , and he told himself not to expect everything . |
| 22 | In the first as he stood at the mouth of the cave , a typhoon burst on the mountainside , bringing rocks crashing down . |