Example sentences of "stand in a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 2 | Grasses have a tendency to ‘ winter burn ’ more or less in proportion to the amount of herbage standing in a field at the onset of frosty weather . |
| 3 | Occupied in their garden on a June day in 1797 , they looked up to see a figure standing in a gateway at the top of the gentle slope one hundred yards from the mansion . |
| 4 | Our cottage stood in a field at the opposite end of the village from the smallholding the Guérigny family used to work . |
| 5 | On Monday morning , I stood in a queue at the Diamond , and waited for the Dublin coach . |
| 6 | She stood in a queue at the single check-out ; the village store had supermarket aspirations without the amenities . |