Example sentences of "i [be] standing [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am standing beside the stool , helping . |
| 2 | If a car suddenly swerves round the corner while I am standing in the middle of the road , the right thing for me to do is to jump for the pavement as spontaneously as a cat . |
| 3 | I thought , ‘ Wow , I 'm standing on the top of the world ’ . ’ |
| 4 | Take the spaced out I 'm Standing On The Rim ’ , which has enough hints for at least three other songs . |
| 5 | Take the spaced out I 'm Standing On The Rim ’ , which has enough hints for at least three other songs . |
| 6 | I 'm standing on the railway ? |
| 7 | What , any other things that you 'd got , but I talked to each group individually , erm but if you want to share any of your thoughts with everybody else I 'm standing in the way . |
| 8 | I 'm standing in the kitchen going kkeerr . |
| 9 | I 'm standing in the line of fire . |
| 10 | So I go back and I 'm standing in the doorway , and there 's this kid on the bed and he 's thrown up all over the cover and now he 's starting to shake . |
| 11 | Early fog had cleared and the airport manager and I were standing on the tarmac lining up the motorcade when my car phone rang . |
| 12 | I could not see what had happened , as I was standing on the settee to reach into the tank ( on a bookcase ) and the Meth blue was n't helping either . |
| 13 | I was standing on the side of the stage watching him . |
| 14 | Well I tell you what I was doing , I was in the stern of the boat coming ashore with one oar in the stern of the boat , I was like hell you know , and I was standing on the sculling . |
| 15 | ‘ I began to lose consciousness and felt that I was standing on the world 's edge aside of a high , dark space looking across it , thinking that I was about to enter into it . |
| 16 | But overhead — I was standing on the steps down to the gravel — the stars were out . |
| 17 | J. Marshall , Tanners Hill Cottage , Crook : I was standing on the steps of Durham Crown Court waiting to go in the public gallery , the assizes were on . |
| 18 | ‘ I was standing on the grass — just standing there . |
| 19 | This guy went out with Lee next day , and I was standing at the back of the 9th green when Lee 's manager came running up to me and said , ‘ Willie , you 've got to take the bag — Lee 's fired the other guy . ’ |
| 20 | At about three o'clock in the afternoon , I was standing at the door of the inn when I saw a blind man coming along the road . |
| 21 | In the break before he actually started , I was standing at the mirror brushing my hair and he came up , took the brush out of my hand — I had very long , waist-length , peroxide blonde hair in those days — and he said , ‘ What are you doing after the show ? ' |
| 22 | ‘ I was standing at the sink after lunch with the usual daily mountain of washing at the side . |
| 23 | " I was standing at the ship 's side , and the chain caught on something and broke . |
| 24 | ‘ Do you know , ’ said Jessica , ‘ I was standing at the bus stop once , and two little Catholic girls came along so sweet you would have thought that they were angels . |
| 25 | I was standing outside the Beverly Wilshire Hotel , in Los Angeles , talking to Cary Grant , when a woman saw me and she shrieked , ‘ You 're him ! |
| 26 | In a few seconds — it had been perhaps a minute in all since I had lost sight of them — I was standing under the tree , on an unrevealing carpet of shrivelled carats . |
| 27 | I was standing in the back of a small boat , drifting down some English river I 've never seen — the kind with dappled , overhang-ing leaves reflected in the water — grasping a punt-pole in my hands and propelling the flat boat like it was something I 'd done for years . |
| 28 | I was standing in the wings on prompt side amid the varicosed tangle of cables webbing the black stage . |
| 29 | I was standing in the bows looking forward when suddenly our gently hissing bow-wave turned into a glowing mass of green fire , which reflected from our hull and bathed us in a ghostly light . |
| 30 | I was standing in the Hemingford Arms one Friday evening , minding my own business , having a drink with a few friends , when Simon introduced me to someone he knew called Keith . |