Example sentences of "[noun] stood [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | Paige stared at the accusing jade in horror , then , white-faced , raised her eyes to where Travis stood in the doorway between their rooms . |
| 11 | Molly stood on the battlements of the terrace and kept a look-out . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Exultantly Richard stood above the rocks and looked down once more on the lower mountains around . |
| 14 | Richard stood in the doorway in his pyjamas . |
| 15 | Otto Kruger stood by the altar , a white robe over his elegant suit . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Donna stood at the window a moment longer , gazing out at the people in the street below . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Creed stood on the sidewalk outside the Palace Hotel . |
| 21 | The ambulance stood in the road . |
| 22 | Dot stood outside the double swing doors . |
| 23 | Dot stood by the open window . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Countess of Donnington stood at the window of the first-floor sitting room , intent on the street below . |
| 26 | Told to an outsider , the history of a lineage stood for the history of the tribe . |
| 27 | Frankenstein 's monster stood outside the shattered door . |
| 28 | When she went back to the kitchen Penry 's tray stood on the counter , the plates satisfactorily empty . |
| 29 | Despite a boycott in parts of Abkhazia , over 75 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote in the elections , in which Shevardnadze stood as the only candidate . |
| 30 | Ben Travers stood in the bedroom . |