Example sentences of "they stood in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A six inch deep channel of water still flowed over their wader clad feet as they stood in a rough circle looking down at something in the mud . |
| 2 | They stood in a small circle and looked up at him , Dr. Howarth , Clifford Bradley , Miss Foley , Mrs. Bidwell . |
| 3 | At least 13 protesters were killed , most of them run over by tanks as they stood in a human cordon trying to defend the building , and 230 were injured ; a soldier also died , shot by one of his own men . |
| 4 | The defending Englishmen were clustered in groups of three at intervals around thirty yards apart , strung out along the stockade itself and its command lookouts ; in the stream that passed through the settlement , and bounded the headland where Belmont 's Great House now commanded the rise , they stood in a double row to bar access to the settlement by that approach ; in the mangroves at the mouth of the stream two young sentries kept watch , though the prevailing easterly breeze rendered it unlikely , the English commanders decided , that the islanders ' attack would come from the sea on that shore . |
| 5 | They stood in a tight bunch and craned their necks to see what was causing the commotion . |
| 6 | The Latin papa , or Greek pappas , ‘ Daddy ’ , was used by early Christians of a bishop to whom they stood in a filial relation . |