Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] 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 Oh oh my hair 's standing up at the back of my neck .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 because if he put the bath right in there , I would be standing up at the end of the bath
5 ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him .
6 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 .
7 Vincent stood up at the back of the room and walked modestly along the wall to the platform .
8 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 .
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