Example sentences of "stood [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | There was a ‘ Sold ’ sticker on the board , and she stood gazing at it for a moment as though it might provide a magic solution to all her problems . |
2 | When , a minute later , he pulled on the handle of the iron bell and it clanged loudly , the door of a small house just beyond the gates opened and a man appeared and stood looking at them for a moment before speaking . |
3 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
4 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
5 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
6 | She watched him hug the child to him , then straighten up , and now he stood glaring at her for a moment . |
7 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
8 | So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other . |