Example sentences of "standing [adv prt] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other had turned and was waiting for the Genoese , standing off on the landward side with her crossbowmen and hackbutters lining her port rail , fore and aft . |
| 2 | Mrs Parvis was standing out on the front doorstep , pretending to watch out for something in the sky . |
| 3 | There were puffins everywhere : the sky was full of whirring wings , and hundreds of birds were standing around on the grassy slope which was honeycombed with puffin burrows . |
| 4 | Andy the gardener was standing around on the lower terrace looking at some white geraniums he had set out in an urn by the pool house , and although she shrank from returning to the scene of yesterday 's shame , she decided to go and rap with him . |
| 5 | Across the bridge in Aberfeldy more people than usual were standing about on the dried mud of the half-built streets . |