Example sentences of "he stood [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he stood awkwardly beside the box , feeling utterly miserable , not knowing what to do next and so deeply humiliated that his face began to twitch . |
| 2 | There was a definite warning in his eyes now , as he stood away from the door-frame and folded his arms across his chest . |
| 3 | As he stood politely on the doorstep seeing her away , Bunny Chaloner cycled out of the lane which ran alongside the orchard and led to the stables . |
| 4 | He stood just within the room , looking steadily at the Princess , and went headlong where his genius pointed him . |
| 5 | He looked , little doubt of it , considerably relieved , but clearly there was something on his mind , for he stood hesitantly beside the table , his eyes scouting around for some object upon which to focus . |
| 6 | Climbing over the broken masonry , he stood uncertainly in the graveyard . |
| 7 | He stood upright on the driver 's seat , staring up into the clouds . |
| 8 | Inside , he stood stiffly under the ceiling light , aware that he was being fully scanned by concealed video cameras and metal detection equipment . |
| 9 | Afterwards he stood there beside the wall , staring at Sung 's body where it lay , face down on the edge of the field of water-chestnuts . |
| 10 | He stood there on the doorstep . |
| 11 | Even now as he stood there by the kitchen table he could see Caspar closing in on the weaker lamb , and he could hear that weird and terrible wailing of Lee 's . |
| 12 | Emily walked into the sitting room , let the coat fall to the floor and sat down on the couch , crossing her legs as she had in the wine bar , and watching him coolly as he stood there in the doorway . |
| 13 | He stood there in the doorway , getting his breath , drinking in the sight of her . |
| 14 | He stood there in the shadows , posed , a Rembrandt , disturbingly authentic and yet enormously out of place — a heavy , solemn man with a reddish face . |
| 15 | He stood diffidently to the side of a group , or featured as a background — the pair of legs clutched by baby Louise , a blurred figure in a field beyond Helen and Edward who sat on a rug eating sandwiches . |
| 16 | He stood aside as the doctor , consulting quickly with Mr Multhrop who had arrived glassy-eyed and panic-stricken , arranged to have Sir Thomas carried to another room . |
| 17 | His account of Halifax 's great service to his country — when he stood aside from the offer of the wartime premiership , leaving it for Churchill ( then regarded as an unstable gangster by Chamberlainite Tories ) is considerably more convincing than Churchill 's own highly-coloured account . |
| 18 | If the main leak could be concealed by showing only at low tide , Willis thought that the equally serious problem of rain — for the weatherboards were particularly weak in one place — could be solved if he stood directly under the drip , wearing a sort of broad waterproof hat . |