Example sentences of "stand [v-ing] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands gazing at the middle barrel . |
| 2 | One young girl who had stood giggling at the hapless Mark for more than ten minutes was told that she could go back to her department as she 'd waited long enough . |
| 3 | Gripping her spear in white hands , she stood gazing at the shadowy Isle . |
| 4 | Molly stood looking at the lapping water with Ken Corduroy , expert on garden pools and pergolas , who had arrived quite unexpectedly in his Volvo estate . |
| 5 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |
| 6 | She stood staring at the yellow-flowered table cloth , as phrases formed and reformed inside her head , but she said nothing . |
| 7 | Zen stood staring at the younger man in considerable embarrassment . |
| 8 | ‘ What 's wrong ? ’ asked his mother as the boy stood staring at the moving hand rail . |