Example sentences of "he stood [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retreating to the edge of the clearing , he stood for a full five minutes , listening intently to the night sounds for anything out of place . |
| 2 | GERALD ANNESLEY , one of Ulster 's most colourful landowners who has died aged 86 , caused a mild sensation in the general election of 1951 when , although a former chairman of the local Unionist party , he stood as a Protestant Irish Nationalist candidate for South Down . |
| 3 | Drawing a deep breath to hide a flicker of nervousness , he stood at the great carved oak lectern and looked along the stalls at the nuns who sat before him there , so composed in their wimples of white and the dark garb of their Order . |
| 4 | Edouard went back down the stairs ; he stood in the huge marble-floored foyer , and closed his eyes . |
| 5 | He stood like a threatening dark presence over her . |
| 6 | These dreadful ideas , horrors from the past now poised to darken the future , occurred to Ludens in a sudden timeless flash as he stood by the still open door of the flat , hearing Irina talking to Patrick in the kitchen . |
| 7 | He stood by the massive four-poster bed in the centre of the room , the ridged hardness of chest , abdomen and steely pectoral muscles a dark contrast above the waistband of the beige trousers . |