Example sentences of "stood [v-ing] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gripping her spear in white hands , she stood gazing at the shadowy Isle . |
| 2 | Molly stood looking at the lapping water with Ken Corduroy , expert on garden pools and pergolas , who had arrived quite unexpectedly in his Volvo estate . |
| 3 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |
| 4 | She stood staring at the yellow-flowered table cloth , as phrases formed and reformed inside her head , but she said nothing . |
| 5 | Zen stood staring at the younger man in considerable embarrassment . |
| 6 | ‘ What 's wrong ? ’ asked his mother as the boy stood staring at the moving hand rail . |