Example sentences of "they stood on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she put them firmly into the category of ‘ workers ’ , rather than ‘ idlers ’ , and therefore to be praised , they were not quite on a par with the Welsh factory workers , or designers ; nonetheless they stood on a higher plane than accountants , clerks or corporate planners . |
| 2 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 3 | The other two men were hit by the two gunmen as they stood on a nearby footpath at the spot where black taxis operate up and down Belfast 's Falls Road . |
| 4 | They stood on the concrete steps reviewing the dismal scene as if it were a personal insult . |
| 5 | They stood on the landward edge of the riverside path , very close to the lipping water . |
| 6 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 7 | They stood on the warm asphalt . |
| 8 | No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge . |
| 9 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |