Example sentences of "stood [prep] [art] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Mark stood for a few moments at the corner of Parliament Street and Bridge Street . |
2 | They stood for a few moments in shy silence , staring from one to another . |
3 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
4 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
5 | Similarly , the clock on the front of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists stood at a few minutes to midnight , but the American government did not heed it . |