Example sentences of "stand [adv] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glen Ball , the Neath coach and team manager , is to stand down at the end of the season . |
| 2 | As Korah , Dathan and Abiram stand defiantly at the doors of their tents with their wives and children , the ground opens beneath them and swallows them up , together with the tents and all their belongings . |
| 3 | She stepped through the sinister half-circle of rajathuks and saw Morthen , standing uneasily at the entrance of the enclosure . |
| 4 | Bernice , Francis and Elaine found him there , standing indecisively at the centre of a crossroads of corridors . |
| 5 | Celia , standing uncertainly at the door of the nursery while her son was finishing his bottle , had been feeling rather de trop . |
| 6 | Oh oh my hair 's standing up at the back of my neck . |
| 7 | ‘ Now that it 's over , you 'd expect they 'd start getting things right at last , would n't you ? ’ said Mrs Parvis , standing up at the end of the table to ladle out to her assembled household . |
| 8 | because if he put the bath right in there , I would be standing up at the end of the bath |
| 9 | Marcus , standing now at the foot of the bed , carefully rolled up his sleeves . |
| 10 | Dignity right now seemed a bit optimistic , when she could feel her eyes blurring over with tears , but anything was better than standing here at the foot of the stairs , rooted to the spot and subjected mercilessly to his naked inspection of her . |
| 11 | She thought she would fall to the floor , or faint , standing there at the mercy of his ravishing mouth , and perhaps he sensed something of her helplessness , because he raised his head again almost immediately . |
| 12 | Ranteallo was standing nearby at the front of the crowd , urging us on . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |
| 14 | Anwar was standing anxiously at the window of Paradise Stores as the Rover turned into the street , stopping outside the library . |
| 15 | Then they all saw that the royal lance , which had stood upright at the door of the tent , had been flung down so violently that its point had pierced the breast-plate of his piled armour ; and the shaft of the lance was twisted and discoloured , all the armour dinted , and the royal pennant charred as if it had been burned . |
| 16 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 17 | As she stood uncertainly at the top of stairs leading down , she began to wonder how she was going to make herself heard above the noise . |
| 18 | Vincent stood up at the back of the room and walked modestly along the wall to the platform . |
| 19 | up there and all of a sudden he saw it and he came in the room , Tony and he went he looked up at it and the stood up at the back of his neck and he was going grurgh ever so quietly under his breath grurgh . |
| 20 | I could n't look as I stood helplessly at the top of stairs listening to him bumping and thudding from step to step until he reached the bottom . |
| 21 | Jumping down from his mount , he came back and stood there at the head of the path , looking down at her . |