Example sentences of "she stood [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She stood aside from the Austro-Prussian War and watched while Prussia completed her preparation for pan-German hegemony .
2 She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out .
3 There was a pathetic dignity about the old animal as she stood there against the mouldering timber of the partition , her eyes patient and undemanding .
4 She stood there in a full , swirling coat of silver-grey silk .
5 She stood there in the hot road in front of the prison door , and waited .
6 She stood there like a dark messiah with some unseen flock before her , and Pete could n't help but begin to assemble shapes out of the grainy darkness and to give them solidity and movement .
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