Example sentences of "stood [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But underfoot conditions in car parks and other sections of the show field stood up well despite the pre-show downpour . |
| 2 | Already with many marathon spells behind him as well as experience of tight limited-overs situations , he stood up well to the fierce challenge to his temperament in the closing stages , slumping only as Akram drove the winning hit through the covers . |
| 3 | It stood out whitely against the tanned skin , exactly as Tamar had described it , when telling of her attacker several years ago . |
| 4 | Their white umbrellas stood out vividly against the harsh terrain of the mountain . |
| 5 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 6 | The shards of horn stood out starkly against the snow-cloud sky . |
| 7 | The black-out curtains which were rolled neatly above the windows stood out starkly against the light green walls and wooden skirting boards . |
| 8 | Because of their unusual livery and high standard of maintenance , they stood out proudly among the motley collection of cars , mainly ex-Bexley and Erith , awaiting the hammer at Brixton Hill depôt . |
| 9 | The evening shadows were lengthening , one or two lights were coming on in buildings across the city and the dark mass of the cathedral stood out sharply against the soft viridian sky . |
| 10 | They stood out now in a fat triangular fan , with a ginger haze of split ends . |