Example sentences of "[noun] stood [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ A lot of the kids stood on the fringe and would have like to join in , but their friends would have called them puffs .
2 Bobby Gillespie was right when he told me , ‘ I used to go stand where all the young kids stood in the corner .
3 Old Den stood at the opposite side of the grave with Tommy Drennan , each with a cord ready to help lay Celia and Dermot Murphy to rest .
4 A spade and a pitchfork stood against the wall beneath , beside a pair of boots , the mud on them dried , flaky to the touch .
5 However , a priest stood on the floor of the parliament and refused to yield before being allowed to speak .
6 Myles edged in , hands twisting the brim of his hat , while the young priest stood at the door looking curiously on .
7 They discovered the manor stood on the site of a medieval castle ‘ the lost palace ’ of Llywelyn Fawr ( Llewelyn the Great ) and his son , Llywelyn , the last Welsh prince .
8 Simple tent-shaped straw huts stood on the spongy surface with fish-tails at their doorways and rumpled blankets inside .
9 Several small huts stood in a roughly circular pattern , as dark and silent as the rest of the countryside .
10 When the protest finally collapsed , Richard Branson stood by the door ushering out the gypsy-like throng , politely removing the records , tapes , posters and movable items of office furniture which had been secreted in robes and kaftans .
11 Paige stared at the accusing jade in horror , then , white-faced , raised her eyes to where Travis stood in the doorway between their rooms .
12 Molly stood on the battlements of the terrace and kept a look-out .
13 So Molly stood in the kitchen , the centre of the house , with its door opening on to the terrace , where now , for certain , no one stood watching her .
14 Exultantly Richard stood above the rocks and looked down once more on the lower mountains around .
15 Richard stood in the doorway in his pyjamas .
16 Otto Kruger stood by the altar , a white robe over his elegant suit .
17 I remember thinking on the Sunday , as Ian Paisley stood outside the ground and tried to bring the wrath of God down upon us for violation of the Sabbath , that maybe he was succeeding .
18 Paisley stood on a picket line outside the Ballylumford power station in Larne and tried to persuade workers not to go in .
19 Donna stood at the window a moment longer , gazing out at the people in the street below .
20 Crichlow stood on the finish pontoon with a grin like a piano keyboard while the Canadian team supporters made a din the like of which has never been known before from Canadians .
21 A baptismal font stood near the doorway , a row of squat white pillars on either side of dark transepts , then through a rood screen into a plain , stone sanctuary .
22 A distorting witch-ball the size of a football stood in a wooden fruit bowl on the sideboard , in the middle of a mute congregation of bottles of tomato ketchup , salad cream , H.P. Sauce , Daddies Favourite sauce and Okay fruit sauce , all with dried dribbles running down their sides .
23 Creed stood on the sidewalk outside the Palace Hotel .
24 The ambulance stood in the road .
25 If a freeholder stood in no immediate need of a government office for himself , he would normally have sons or other relatives to provide for , and what other outlets were open to younger sons or brothers without capital save patronage appointments ?
26 Dot stood outside the double swing doors .
27 Dot stood by the open window .
28 There was a telephone by the bed but he decided to go back to the hall , where another instrument stood on a table under the bannisters .
29 James Scott stood in the centre of the small room for a moment , looking round , then sat down on the edge of the bottom bunk .
30 The Countess of Donnington stood at the window of the first-floor sitting room , intent on the street below .
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