Example sentences of "stood on a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charsky stood on a narrow ledge above the Spider Snowfield . |
| 2 | The flat figure stood on a small base as if ready to be moved round a board like a chessman . |
| 3 | The wireless stood on a small table below the pulpit . |
| 4 | That stood on a dark straight of barren land . |
| 5 | For a few months he stood on a European par with Adler and Liebknecht and tried to take responsibility for Russians interned after the Brest–Litovsk peace . |
| 6 | A plastic tumbler containing toothbrush and paste stood on a deeper shelf behind two thin metal rails designed to prevent things falling off . |
| 7 | 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 . |