Example sentences of "standing [adv prt] from the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing back from the road in its own grounds , it commanded an extensive view of the sea to the south and the patchwork of stone walls and green fields to the north . |
| 2 | The Laurels was a very nice house on the edge of the town standing back from the road in a large garden . |
| 3 | This mill was built of brick instead of stone like the Old Mill in the village , and the original six-storey building survives among the extensions built around it , with Arkwright 's peculiar staircase projection with Venetian and small semi-circular windows standing out from the sea of square-headed windows on either side , and with a cupola above . |
| 4 | At the same time the building of what were to become bastions , towers standing out from the line of the wall , enabled defenders to fire all round , and in particular laterally , against approaching men or machines , as the design for Bodiam Castle in Sussex , which , like Cooling Castle in Kent , was built at the time of the French invasion scares of the 1380s , clearly shows . |
| 5 | The taut legs standing out from the body at all angles , some hideously broken like twigs thrown carelessly on a bonfire , others still moving feebly . |