Example sentences of "stand there [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You sit there , then you get up and you walk to one end of your cell , which is n't very far , stand there for a little while , then you walk back , look out the window , and all the thoughts go through your mind — I could be out there , your children , friends , what you 'd be doing if you was out there . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , do n't stand there like a gormless eejit ! |
| 3 | Instead , he turned round and strolled back to the house , leaving her standing there with a black scowl on her face . |
| 4 | next thing I remember was being undressed and in bed with Debbie standing there with a boiled egg on a tray , saying mummy were so sorry you 'll never do Christmas again , you 've done it for us for forty years , we shall do it for you now . |
| 5 | One of the Swedish girls was standing there in a flowered nylon dressing-gown . |
| 6 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 7 | She stood there like a dark messiah with some unseen flock before her , and Pete could n't help but begin to assemble shapes out of the grainy darkness and to give them solidity and movement . |
| 8 | I just stood there like a punch-drunk boxer , taking the punishment she was handing out . |
| 9 | I stood there like a half-opened penknife , splattering the forecourt noisily . |
| 10 | The cook stood there like a shrivelled bootlace , tight-lipped , implacable , disapproving . |
| 11 | They stood there in a frightened cluster . |